Japan S Multilayered Democracy

Author : Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti,Nissim Otmazgin,Alon Levkowitz
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498502238

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Japan's Multilayered Democracy by Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti,Nissim Otmazgin,Alon Levkowitz Pdf

This book introduces a multilayered approach to the study of democracy, combining specific knowledge of Japan with theoretical insights from the literature on democratization. It examines different aspects of Japanese democracy—historical, institutional, and sociocultural—to provide a conscious understanding of the nature and practice of democracy, both in Japan and beyond. The book's chapters give testimony to the dynamic nature and continuity of Japanese democracy and analyze its strengths and weaknesses. The central argument of this book is that Japan’s democratization should be seen as a multilayered experience shaped by the gradual process of absorbing democratic ideas, forming democratic institutions, and practicing democratic behaviors and rituals at various levels of society. As the case of Japan shows, democracy is neither a structured formula nor only a set of democratic laws and institutions, but a continuous, gradual process.

Author : Galanti Levk GALANTI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498502245

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Japans Mulitlayered Democracy by Galanti Levk GALANTI Pdf

Author : Takeshi Ishida
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4380683

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Democracy in Japan by Takeshi Ishida Pdf

Following World War II, the American Occupation created Western style democratic institutions in Japan and sought to develop a society and culture that would support a democratic political system. Now, after four decades, the successes and failures of Japanese democracy can be assessed. How equal are Japan's citizens? To what extent are their views represented in the legislature? How does Japan handle dissent and protest? How stable is its democracy? In closely related and readable essays, thirteen leading experts consider three main components of democracy in Japan - political, social, and economic. The editors' introduction provides historical background, making this book accessible and valuable for students, the general reader interested in Japan, as well as the specialist.

Author : Gerald L. Curtis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231108430

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The Logic of Japanese Politics by Gerald L. Curtis Pdf

Widely recognized both in America and Japan for his insider knowledge and penetrating analyses of Japanese politics, Gerald Curtis is the political analyst best positioned to explore the complexities of the Japanese political scene today. Curtis has personally known most of the key players in Japanese politics for more than thirty years, and he draws on their candid comments to provide invaluable and graphic insights into the world of Japanese politics. By relating the behavior of Japanese political leaders to the institutions within which they must operate, Curtis makes sense out of what others have regarded as enigmatic or illogical. He utilizes his skills as a scholar and his knowledge of the inner workings of the Japanese political system to highlight the commonalities of Japanese and Western political practices while at the same time explaining what sets Japan apart. Curtis rejects the notion that cultural distinctiveness and consensus are the defining elements of Japan's political decision making, emphasizing instead the competition among and the profound influence of individuals operating within particular institutional contexts on the development of Japan's politics. The discussions featured here -- as they survey both the detailed events and the broad structures shaping the mercurial Japanese political scene of the 1990s -- draw on extensive conversations with virtually all of the decade's political leaders and focus on the interactions among specific politicians as they struggle for political power. The Logic of Japanese Politics covers such important political developments as • the Liberal Democratic Party's egress from power in 1993, after reigning for nearly four decades, and their crushing defeat in the "voters' revolt" of the 1998 upper-house election; • the formation of the 1993 seven party coalition government led by prime minister Morihiro Hosokawa and its collapse eight months later; • the historic electoral reform of 1994 which replaced the electoral system operative since the adoption of universal manhood suffrage in 1925; and • the decline of machine politics and the rise of the mutohaso -- the floating, nonparty voter. Scrutinizing and interpreting a complex and changing political system, this multi-layered chronicle reveals the dynamics of democracy at work -- Japanese-style. In the process, The Logic of Japanese Politics not only offers a fascinating picture of Japanese politics and politicians but also provides a framework for understanding Japan's attempts to surmount its present problems, and helps readers gain insight into Japan's future.

Author : Sherry L. Martin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801461308

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Popular Democracy in Japan by Sherry L. Martin Pdf

Popular Democracy in Japan examines a puzzle in Japanese politics: Why do Japanese women turn out to vote at rates higher than men? On the basis of in-depth fieldwork in various parts of the country, Sherry L. Martin argues that the exclusion of women from a full range of opportunities in public life provokes many of them to seek alternative outlets for self-expression. They have options that include a wide variety of study, hobby, and lifelong learning groups—a feature of Japanese civic life that the Ministry of Education encourages. Women who participate in these alternative spaces for learning tend, Martin finds, to examine the political conditions that have pushed them there. Her research suggests that study group participation increases women’s confidence in using various types of political participation (including voting) to pressure political elites for a more inclusive form of democracy. Considerable overlap between the narratives that emerge from women’s groups and a survey of national public opinion identifies these groups as crucial sites for crafting and circulating public discourses about politics. Martin shows how the interplay between public opinion and institutional change has given rise to bottom-up changes in electoral politics that culminated in the 2009 Democratic Party of Japan victory in the House of Representatives election.

Author : Mary Alice Haddad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107014077

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Building Democracy in Japan by Mary Alice Haddad Pdf

This book offers a grassroots perspective and holistic understanding of Japan's democratization process and what it means for the nation today.

Author : Ray Christensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000036763

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Japanese Democracy and Lessons for the United States by Ray Christensen Pdf

This book presents a collection of lessons on how best to run elections and politics, using examples from the Japanese experience and showing how elections operate in a non-Western democracy. Featuring extensive data and evidence from both Japan and the United States, the themes covered include one-party rule, ballot security and voting procedures, election regulations, malapportionment and gerrymandering, court interventions, voter attachments, and distortions of the public will by election rules. In so doing, the analysis challenges conventional wisdom in both Japan and the United States, highlighting surprising and counterintuitive findings from decades of observation. This book also explicitly compares Japan to other, similarly situated democracies. Japan is therefore not treated as a standalone case but, rather, the lessons from Japan are contextualized for greater understanding and can be used to inform discussions about comparative elections and democracy. Offering practical advice in relation to elections and the functions of democracy, Japanese Democracy and Lessons for the United States will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese, US, and comparative politics.

Author : Ethan Scheiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521846929

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Democracy Without Competition in Japan by Ethan Scheiner Pdf

This book explains why no opposition party has been able to offer itself as a sustained challenger in Japan.

Author : Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108490077

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Japan's Living Politics by Tessa Morris-Suzuki Pdf

The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institutions of democracy. This crisis of democracy has stimulated searches for alternative ways of understanding and enacting politics. Against this background, Tessa Morris-Suzuki explores the long history of informal everyday political action in the Japanese context. Despite its seemingly inflexible and monolithic formal political system, Japan has been the site of many fascinating small-scale experiments in 'informal life politics': grassroots do-it-yourself actions which seek not to lobby governments for change, but to change reality directly, from the bottom up. She explores this neglected history by examining an interlinked series of informal life politics experiments extending from the 1910s to the present day.

Author : Y. Kuroda
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403978349

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The Core of Japanese Democracy by Y. Kuroda Pdf

This book seeks to explain how politics actually operates in the Japanese Diet using the author's bilayer theory or dual power structure theory. It is about how politics in Japan operates behind closed doors and how laws are actually made in the Diet. While some parts of the process remain hidden-subterfuge is inherently part of politics-the author uses interviews with party officials, current and former kokkai taisaku-inkai committee members of all parties in the Diet to elucidate the process as much as possible.

Author : Ellis S. Krauss,Robert J. Pekkanen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801460029

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The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP by Ellis S. Krauss,Robert J. Pekkanen Pdf

After holding power continuously from its inception in 1955 (with the exception of a ten-month hiatus in 1993–1994), Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost control of the national government decisively in September 2009. Despite its defeat, the LDP remains the most successful political party in a democracy in the post–World War II period. In The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP, Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen shed light on the puzzle of the LDP's long dominance and abrupt defeat. Several questions about institutional change in party politics are at the core of their investigation: What incentives do different electoral systems provide? How do politicians adapt to new incentives? How much does structure determine behavior, and how much opportunity does structure give politicians to influence outcomes? How adaptable are established political organizations? The electoral system Japan established in 1955 resulted in a half-century of "one-party democracy." But as Krauss and Pekkanen detail, sweeping political reforms in 1994 changed voting rules and other key elements of the electoral system. Both the LDP and its adversaries had to adapt to a new system that gave citizens two votes: one for a party and one for a candidate. Under the leadership of the charismatic Koizumi Junichiro, the LDP managed to maintain its majority in the Japanese Diet, but his successors lost popular support as opposing parties learned how to operate in the new electoral environment. Drawing on the insights of historical institutionalism, Krauss and Pekkanen explain how Japanese politics functioned before and after the 1994 reform and why the persistence of party institutions (factions, PARC, koenkai) and the transformed role of party leadership contributed both to the LDP's success at remaining in power for fifteen years after the reforms and to its eventual downfall. In an epilogue, the authors assess the LDP's prospects in the near and medium term.

Author : Yoshiaki Kobayashi
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739147580

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Malfunctioning Democracy in Japan by Yoshiaki Kobayashi Pdf

In many developed countries, democratic political systems have demonstrated significant shortcomings. Malfunctioning Democracy in Japan: Quantitative Analysis in a Civil Society, by Yoshiaki Kobayashi, investigates the causes of these problems via quantitative analysis, using Japan as a particular case study.

Author : Brian Woodall
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813145037

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Growing Democracy in Japan by Brian Woodall Pdf

The world's third largest economy and a stable democracy, Japan remains a significant world power; but its economy has become stagnant, and its responses to the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 and the nuclear crisis that followed have raised international concerns. Despite being constitutionally modeled on Great Britain's "Westminster"-style parliamentary democracy, Japan has failed to fully institute a cabinet-style government, and its executive branch is not empowered to successfully respond to the myriad challenges confronted by an advanced postindustrial society. In Growing Democracy in Japan, Brian Woodall compares the Japanese cabinet system to its counterparts in other capitalist parliamentary democracies, particularly in Great Britain. Woodall demonstrates how the nation's long history of dominant bureaucracies has led to weakness at the top levels of government, while mid-level officials exercise much greater power than in the British system. The post--1947 cabinet system, begun under the Allied occupation, was fashioned from imposed and indigenous institutions which coexisted uneasily. Woodall explains how an activist economic bureaucracy, self-governing "policy tribes" (zoku) composed of members of parliament, and the uncertainties of coalition governments have prevented the cabinet from assuming its prescribed role as primary executive body. Woodall's meticulous examination of the Japanese case offers lessons for reformers as well as for those working to establish democratic institutions in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, China, and the new regimes born during the Arab Spring. At the very least, he argues, Japan's struggles with this fundamental component of parliamentary governance should serve as a cautionary tale for those who believe that growing democracy is easy.

Author : Gavan McCormack,Yoshio Sugimoto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781315494357

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Democracy in Contemporary Japan by Gavan McCormack,Yoshio Sugimoto Pdf

This title was first published in 1986: This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. It follows the life of one prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to accept cleaning work in Borneo and then forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel.

Author : Frank McNeil
Publisher : Crown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UCSD:31822018830455

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Democracy in Japan by Frank McNeil Pdf

A veteran American diplomat with extensive experience in Japan takes a fresh look at the country's democratic tradition--its troubled past and its uncertain present. McNeil also examines alternative scenarios for Japan's future and outlines the likely outcomes. Advertising in the Washington Post.