Japanese democracy : power, coordination, and performance /

In this new analysis of democracy in Japan, Bradley Richardson refutes the widely accepted hypothesis that postwar Japan has been a semiauthoritarian and consensual state, heavily influenced by corporations and led by the government bureaucracy. On the contrary, Richardson's extensive newspaper...

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Autor principal: Richardson, Bradley M.
Formato: Livro
Idioma:English
Publicado em: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c1997.
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Sumário:
  • 1. Postwar Politics: Images and Questions
  • 2. Political Culture and Electoral Behavior
  • 3. Parties Under the "1955 System"
  • 4. Party Fragmentation and Coalition Dynamics
  • 5. Executive and Bureaucratic Power
  • 6. Legislative Politics
  • 7. Interests, Policy, and Power
  • 8. Business Interests and Political Life
  • 9. The Government and the Economy
  • 10. Japan as a Bargained Distributive Democracy.