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Author : Kurt Steiner
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804702179
A Stanford University Press classic.
Author : Michio Muramatsu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520315785
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.
Author : Yasuo Takao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429820069
First published in 1999, this book offers a new study of local government in Japan. There is an enormous amount of information about Japanese local government that has not yet appeared in English. With the author’s local familiarity, elected local officials and local residents have been extraordinarily open and forthcoming. This allows a rethinking of the topic by mobilising a multitude of solid factual material. Japan has dealt with the dramatically increased public sector, but has done so in a setting of institutional centralisation. How has central authority sought to find ways of managing the continuous expansion of state activities? How have local authorities responded to central government’s initiative in integrating state administration? The answers the book gives to these questions present an alternative understanding of Japanese local government.
Author : Robert J. Pekkanen,Yutaka Tsujinaka,Hidehiro Yamamoto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317754428
Although local neighborhood associations are found in many countries, Japan’s are distinguished by their ubiquity, scope of activities, and very high participation rates, making them important for the study of society and politics. Most Japanese belong to one local neighborhood association or another, making them Japan’s most numerous civil society organization, and one that powerfully shapes governance outcomes in the country. And, they also often blur the state-society boundary, making them theoretically intriguing. Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan draws on a unique and novel body of empirical data derived from the first national survey of neighborhood associations carried out in 2007 and provides a multifaceted empirical portrait of Japan’s neighborhood associations. It examines how local associational structures affect the quality of local governance, and thus the quality of life for Japan’s citizens and residents, and illuminates the way in which these ambiguous associations can help us refine civil society theory and show how they contribute to governance. As well as outlining the key features of neighbourhood associations, the book goes on to examine in detail the way in which neighbourhood associations contribute to governance, in terms of social capital, networks with other community organizations, social service provision, cooperation with local governments and political participation. This book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Japanese politics, Japanese society, anthropology, urban studies as well as those interested in social capital and civil society.
Author : Purnendra Jain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Local government
ISBN : UCSD:31822029662616
Author : Purnendra Jain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Central-local government relations
ISBN : UCSD:31822003805777
Case study of the public housing policy of Tokyo Metropolis in the 1950s.
Author : Ken Victor Leonard Hijino
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317265627
This book is about why and how central and local governments clash over important national policy decisions. Its empirical focus is on the local politics of Japan which has significantly shaped, and been shaped by, larger developments in national politics. The book argues that since the 1990s, changes in the national political arena, fiscal and administrative decentralization, as well as broader socio-economic developments have led to a decoupling of once closely integrated national and local party systems in Japan. Such decoupling has led to a breakdown of symbiotic relations between the centre and regions. In its place are increasing strains between national and local governments leading to greater intra-party conflict, inter-governmental conflicts, and more chief executives with agendas and resources increasingly autonomous of the national ruling party. Although being a book primarily focused on the Japanese case, the study seeks to contribute to a broader understanding of how local partisans shape national policy-making. The book theorizes and investigates how the degree of state centralization, vertical integration for party organizations, and partisan congruence in different levels of government affect inter-governmental relations. Japan’s experience is compared with Germany, Canada, and the UK to explore sources of multi-level policy conflict.
Author : Shunsuke Kimura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317265948
In Japan, the main local administrative affairs are traditionally allotted to prefectures and municipalities, while communal disposal systems, fire-fighting and regional development takes secondary importance. However, two new changes to the frame of local governments have altered the main frameworks of national and provincial governance. With decentralization reforms taking effect, more local bodies are gaining autonomy and departing from uniformity. This has allowed methods of cooperation between governing bodies to diversify– trends which augur a dissolution of uniformity in Japanese local administration. If left alone, it may eventually lead to disparities between principal and peripheral bodies, and thus complicate the administrative systems further. How will these changes affect future community development? This book aims to address the dynamism of concepts of wide area public service in Japan. It advocates the use of flexible strategies to ensure service standards are best suited to each regional demand. This concept can be called “departure from uniformity”. This book also examines the advantages and disadvantages of these shifts for the future of Japanese public policy, and suggests various strategies to prevent further complications; e.g. autonomous settlement zone. Regional Administration in Japan: Departure from uniformity will interest researchers of Japanese public policy and public administration. This book will also engage researchers of Japanese politics and Japanese studies in general.
Author : Michio Muramatsu,Farrukh Iqbal,Ikuo Kume
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Japan
ISBN : 0199248281
This book examines the evolution of intergovernmental relations in postwar Japan. These relations are shown to be both complex and dynamic, and the Japanese model is revealed as one in which aspects of both central control and local autonomy have co-existed with the balance shifting graduallyover time towards the latter. The Japanese system has helped to maintain broad-based economic growth since it has at its core a strongly egalitarian fiscal transfer mechanism. At the same time, it has proved to be consistent, to a much greater extent than previously recognized, with politicaldevelopment, or progress in the attainment of such political values as liberty (personal rights) and equality (broad participation in public affairs) for individuals and communities. This is because the national government has proved flexible enough to accommodate, although not always with grace oralacrity, citizen concerns about the quality of life. The Japanese approach to intergovernmental relationships has also been successful in solving coordination problems which often arise between local and central government units and in building capacity to support greater and effectivedecentralization. Coordination problems have been handled through a variety of mechanisms including the practice of agency delegated functions, while local capacity issues have been addressed through such practices as the exchange of personnel across different levels of government and the use ofattractive compensation and training packages to recruit and retain local staff. The Japanese experience thus provides an example of gradual and guided decentralization based on shared responsibilities between local and central governments for mobilizing, managing, and spending public resources inthe pursuit of sustainable development.
Author : Kurt Steiner,Ellis S. Krauss,Scott E. Flanagan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400857043
Japan's national government, and most of its local governments, have been in conservative hands for more than three decades. Recently, however, the strength of progressive opposition forces has been increasing at the local level. The contributors to this volume analyze this increasing opposition to determine whether it is a temporary phenomenon or portends permanent changes. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Steven R. Reed
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822976417
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 : Carola Hein,Philippe Pelletier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134341504
This book offers a cogent collection of case studies focusing on the history, present and future of decentralization in Japan.
Author : Edward Page,Michael Goldsmith
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 080398071X
Central and Local Government Relations considers how best to organize local government units, and what powers and responsibilities should be devolved to local government. The book presents a comparative analysis of local governments in seven unitary states - Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Britain, France, Italy and Spain. It tests the hypothesis that any convincing explanation for the emergence of a particular pattern of central-local relations in one country must be able to explain why identical patterns are or are not found in others. The ability of local government to shape public services is discussed on the basis of three dimensions - the functions of local government, the type of discretion that it has, and the extent to which local political actors can influence central processes of decision making. The editors distinguish between the type of local governmnent system found in Britain and Scandinavia and that found in Southern European nations, and explore the reasons which explain these differences.
Author : Shinzo Kikuchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Local government
ISBN : MINN:31951001572071V
Author : 阿部斉,Muneyuki Shindō,Sadafumi Kawato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Japan
ISBN : UCSD:31822016613515
Provides an overview of the central government of Japan the bicameral parliament and civil service bureaucracy and how these institutions create the laws and policies of the country. Discusses the electoral system, political parties, the role of local governments, democracy and political participati