Japanese Policymaking

Author : Quansheng Zhao
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015029254946

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Japanese Policymaking by Quansheng Zhao Pdf

Japan's policymaking is, given that nation's economic prowess and history, of considerable worldwide interest. Quansheng Zhao makes a highly original and important contribution to an improved understanding of Japanese policymaking processes by examining several informal approaches or mechanisms, which in their interrelationships directly impact policy formulation. He examines kuromaku or the informal organizations or political actors; isuskiai or social connections; and nemawashi or the behind the scenes preparations and shows their effect on policy through detailed empirical analysis. Four case studies involving Japan's policies toward China offer special, and captivating, insights into Sino-Japanese relations and provide lessons relative to the country's international policies. The highly informed treatment of political institutions, social environments, and political cultures will provide a needed understanding of essential elements affecting the stance Japan takes vis-a-vis other countries.

Author : Samuel Kernell
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815717806

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Parallel Politics by Samuel Kernell Pdf

While much has been written about economic competition between the United States and Japan, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that their relationship is founded essentially on each sides' domestic political concerns. Many critics have concluded that to gain a new equilibrium in relations, the two counties must develop a sophisticated appreciation of each other's political dynamics. Because budgets, taxes and macroeconomic policy are so central to activities of both governments, this book, by Japanese and American experts, focuses on the role of political institutions in formulating economic policy. Despite the differences in the two counties political systems—one-party/parliamentary versus two-party/presidential—there are striking similarities in the way politics is transacted in Japan and the United States. In particular, politicians in both countries are motivated primarily by the desire to serve local constituencies, which leads to overly parochial public policies. Combining case studies and discussions, the contributors provide an overview of the Japanese and American political systems, particularly those aspects that are most relevant to economic policymaking. In addition, they offer a comparative analysis of the politics of budgeting, tax reform, and structural policies

Author : M. Nakano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230375512

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The Policy-Making Process in Contemporary Japan by M. Nakano Pdf

This book deals with the public policy-making process in contemporary Japan testifying a new dictum: 'The various phases of the policy process cause politics'. The analytical focus is threefold: encompassing the policy-making process on the national level; elections and the policy-making process; and the regional policy and decision-making. These analyses offer a number of original and comparative data on Japanese politics. This book also tries to interpret the basic pattern of Japanese politics, which contributes to a clear understanding of the dynamic aspects of the political process and political economy after the Second World War.

Author : Steven R. Reed
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822976417

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Japanese Prefectures and Policymaking by Steven R. Reed Pdf

In this book, Steven R. Reed argues that studying only central administrations and national-level politics yields a picture of greater rigidity than actually exists in modern governments. There is not a simple dichotomy between centralization and local autonomy: many different relationships between levels of government are possible. Reed illustrates his point in nine detailed case studies in which he analyzes the governments of three of Japan's forty-seven prefectures. Reed interviews over one-hundred officials to reveal the innovative policymaking that exists at the local level. Reed compares how each prefecture addresses pollution control, public housing, and access to the best high school education, and concludes that despite some inefficiency in the system, the results are usually very good. Japan's prefectures are important sources of governmental flexibility and responsiveness.

Author : T. J. Pempel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000313703

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Patterns Of Japanese Policy Making by T. J. Pempel Pdf

The author of this study of policymaking in postwar Japan contends that the prevailing perceptions of the subject advanced to date are inadequate. Professor Pempel identifies three distinct patterns of policymaking within Japan's current system of hegemonic pluralism. One of these, "policymaking by camp conflict, "is associated with broad, highly emotional, ideological issues that polarize political forces and that are resolved only after widely publicized battles in the Diet, the media, and the streets. A second pattern, "incremental policymaking, "involves nonideological problems that are settled largely through bureaucratic procedures almost totally removed from public scrutiny. A third pattern, "pressure group policymaking, "pits a limited number of special interest groups against one or more government agencies; this process is less conflictual and public than camp conflict, but more visible and antagonistic than incremental policymaking.

Author : James Arthur Ainscow Stockwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Japan
ISBN : UCSD:31822028625192

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Toward Reform and Transparency in Japanese Policymaking Processes by James Arthur Ainscow Stockwin Pdf

Author : Purnendra Jain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Central-local government relations
ISBN : UCSD:31822003805777

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Local Politics and Policymaking in Japan by Purnendra Jain Pdf

Case study of the public housing policy of Tokyo Metropolis in the 1950s.

Author : T. J. Pempel
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036970627

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Policymaking in Contemporary Japan by T. J. Pempel Pdf

Author : Kent E. Calder
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691229478

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Crisis and Compensation by Kent E. Calder Pdf

Why does Japan, with its efficiency-oriented technocracy, periodically adopt welfare-oriented, economically inefficient domestic policies? In answering this question Kent Calder shows that Japanese policymakers respond to threats to the ruling party's preeminence by extending income compensation, entitlements, and subsidies, with market-oriented retrenchment coming as crisis subsides. "Quite simply the most ambitious and strongly argued interpretation of a key dimension of Japanese political life to appear in English this decade."--David Williams, Japan Times "Historically dense and conceptually rich.... [Forces] readers' attention to the domestic underpinnings of Japanese foreign policy."--Donald S. Zagoria, Foreign Affairs "Punctures the myth of Japan Inc. as a cool, rational monolith...."--Kathleen Newland, Millennium "A bold reinterpretation of Japanese politics that will force us to rethink many of our current assumptions and will influence our research agenda."--Steven R. Reed, Journal of Japanese Studies

Author : Nihon Kokusai Kōryū Sentā
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015056443628

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Policymaking in Japan; Defining the Role of Politicians by Nihon Kokusai Kōryū Sentā Pdf

A major evolution in Japan's system of governance has been taking place in recent years as politicians have increasingly begun to participate in the policymaking process where bureaucrats used to play the predominant role. The six chapters in this volume are written by members of the Diet from the Liberal Democratic, Democratic, and New Komeito parties. These members of the new generation of politicians in Japan are concerned about designing a new architecture for policymaking.Relations between politicians and bureaucrats and how those relations should be restructured are discussed. Restructuring the policymaking process also involves questions of the relationships between the prime minister and the governing party organizations, the role of Diet committees, and the issue of staff support for politicians, parties, the Diet, and the prime minister. Each chapter explores these and other policymaking matters in the context of a specific policy issue, such as finance, information technology, public works, education, and corporate policy. Chapters provide important insights into the substantive issue at hand and the policy process relating to it.Contributors include Japanese House of Representatives members Nemoto Takumi, Furukawa Motohisa, Ito Tatsuya, Maehara Seiji, Hase Hiroshi, and Ueda Isamu.

Author : T. J. Pempel
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1978-12-05
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015001550980

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Patterns Of Japanese Pol/h by T. J. Pempel Pdf

Author : Liang Pan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174249

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The United Nations in Japan’s Foreign and Security Policymaking, 1945–1992 by Liang Pan Pdf

" In the mid-1950s, as part of Tokyo’s goal of reinstating Japan as a full member of the international community, Japan sought and gained admittance to the United Nations. Since then, it has been a proactive member and a generous financial contributor to the organization. This study focuses on postwar Japan’s foreign policy making in the political and security areas, the core UN missions. It analyzes these two policy arenas from three perspectives--international political structure, domestic political organization, and the psychology of policymakers. The intent is to illustrate how policy goals forged by national security concerns, domestic politics, and psychological needs gave shape to Japan’s complicated and sometimes incongruous policy toward the UN since World War II. In contrast to the usual emphasis on the role of the foreign-policy bureaucracy, however, the author argues that we must view the bureaucracy as functioning within a larger framework of party politics and interactions among government agencies, political parties, and other actors associated with these parties. The last part of the book addresses the psychological aspect of Japan’s UN policymaking in an effort to elucidate the role of national prestige in generating Japanese policy toward the UN. "

Author : Alisa Gaunder
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000807042

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Japanese Politics and Government by Alisa Gaunder Pdf

The revised 2nd edition of this successful textbook explores Japanese politics in the postwar era from theoretical and comparative perspectives. After providing historical context, it offers an in-depth exploration of postwar political institutions, political reform in the 1990s, the policymaking process, and the politics of economic growth and stagnation. By delving into Japan’s international relations, the book sheds light on Japan’s security and foreign policies, and Japan’s role in Asia. The textbook concludes by addressing what has changed since party alternation in 2009, the triple disaster in March 2011 and the global Covid pandemic. Themes and questions addressed throughout the text include: How and why did Japan modernize so successfully when so many other countries fell prey to colonialism and authoritarianism? What explains the Japanese economic miracle and its subsequent economic stagnation? What accounts for Japan’s successful democratization? In the international realm, why has Japan achieved economic superpower status without achieving political superpower status? What is the future trajectory of Japanese politics? Connecting Japan to larger themes in comparative politics and linking Japan’s history, institutions, policymaking process, and international relations to experiences and structures in other countries, this book is essential reading for students of Japanese or Asian Politics.

Author : Karol Zakowski,Beata Bochorodycz,Marcin Socha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319874713

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Japan’s Foreign Policy Making by Karol Zakowski,Beata Bochorodycz,Marcin Socha Pdf

This book evaluates the impact of the 2001 central government reforms on effective foreign policy making in Japan. It puts a special focus on the evolution of the domestic institutional factors and decision-making processes behind Japan’s foreign policy, while also analyzing the development of Japan’s external relations with various other countries, such as the US, China and North Korea. Adhering to the neoclassical realist approach, the authors show that, thanks to a more independent Kantei-based form of diplomacy, Japan’s prime ministers were able to strategically respond to international developments, and to pursue their own diplomatic endeavors more boldly. At the same time, they demonstrate that the effectiveness of this proactive posture was still heavily dependent on the decision-makers’ ability to form cohesive coalitions and select suitable institutional tools, which enabled them to influence domestic and international affairs.

Author : C. Meyerson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230512078

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Domestic Politics and International Relations in US-Japan Trade Policymaking by C. Meyerson Pdf

To what extent does domestic politics affect the agreement reached in an international trade negotiation? In order to address this question, Christopher C. Meyerson develops an approach to analyzing the relationship between domestic politics and international relations in trade policymaking. This approach is used to analyze both American and Japanese trade policymaking and US-Japan trade negotiations, especially during the GATT Uruguay Round agriculture negotiations that occurred between 1986 and 1994. Meyerson not only develops an innovative approach to the analysis of the relationship between domestic politics and international relations in trade policymaking, but also, using publicly available GATT documents and publications, US Congressional hearings and Japanese-language sources, provides a strong narrative description of the roles of the United States and Japan in the GATT Uruguay Round agriculture negotiations.