Japanese democracy : power, coordination, and performance /

Japanese democracy : power, coordination, and performance /

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Author / Creator:	Richardson, Bradley M.
Imprint:	New Haven, Conn : Yale University Press, ©1997.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 325 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Democracy -- Japan. Political participation -- Japan. Political parties -- Japan. Decentralization in government -- Japan. Decentralization in government. Democracy. Political participation. Political parties. Politics and government Japan -- Politics and government -- 1945- Japan. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11113544

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ISBN:	0585351872 9780585351872 0300062583 0300076649 9780300062588 0300062583 9780300076646 0300076649
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-315) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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 and documentary research shows that Japanese political life has been extremely fragmented and discordant at all levels - in the bureaucracy, legislatures, parties, and interest groups and in business and industry. In Japanese Democracy, Richardson explores power relations and demonstrates how Japan's political system is unlike Great Britain's and similar to those of the United States and Italy, where politics is decentralized and decisions are made at many levels. He draws some important conclusions: that Japan's postwar industrial policy has not always been successful, that the country is as much an economic welfare state as it is an economic "miracle," and that the lack of strong leadership has kept Japan from playing a more assertive role in the international arena. As in the United States, private interests hold central policymaking processes hostage, and weak leadership prevails.
Other form:	Print version: Richardson, Bradley M. Japanese democracy. New Haven, Conn : Yale University Press, ©1997 0300062583
Standard no.:	9780300076646

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (ix, 325 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-315) and index.
ISBN:	0585351872 9780585351872 0300062583 0300076649 9780300062588 9780300076646