The government and politics of Japan / Hitoshi Abe, Muneyuki Shindō, Sadafumi Kawato ; translated by James W. White.
1994
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Author
Title
The government and politics of Japan / Hitoshi Abe, Muneyuki Shindō, Sadafumi Kawato ; translated by James W. White.
Uniform Title
Gaisetsu gendai Nihon no seiji. English
Published
Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press, [1994]
Copyright
©1994
Call Number
JQ1624 .A34 1994
ISBN
4130370219
0860085015
0860085015
Description
xiv, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)30753057
Note
"Assisted by grants from the Japan Foundation"--Title page verso.
"A translation of Gaisetsu gendai no seiji, published by University of Tokyo Press in 1990"--Title page verso.
"A translation of Gaisetsu gendai no seiji, published by University of Tokyo Press in 1990"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index.
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Table of Contents
Tables and Figures
Translator's Introduction
1
From the Meiji State to the Postwar Constitution
3
2
Parliament and the Legislative System
14
3
Parliament and Cabinet
27
4
The Civil Service Bureaucracy
33
5
Advisory Councils
39
6
Interest Groups and the Administrative Branch
46
7
The History of Local Government
55
8
Local Government Today
63
9
The Politics of Intergovernmental Transfers
72
10
Budgetary Politics
83
11
Administrative Reform
92
12
Security Policy and Defense Spending
101
13
Political Parties
115
14
The Electoral System
139
15
Voting Behavior
155
16
The Koenkai
172
17
Political Movements and Political Participation
182
18
The Political Function of the Mass Media
190
19
Democracy and Liberalism
201
20
Equalization and Egalitarianism
213
21
Nationalism
225
Suggested Reading
235
Index
239