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Title:

Japanese politics today : from karaoke to kabuki democracy / edited by Takashi Inoguchi and Purnendra Jain.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xiv, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Japan--Politics and government--1989-
Democracy--Japan.

Other Authors:

Inoguchi, Takashi.
Jain, Purnendra.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: from karaoke to kabuki democracy: Japanese politics today / Takashi Inoguchi and Purnendra Jain -- Prime ministers / Takashi Inoguchi -- The system of bureaucrats in Japan / Hiroaki Inatsugu -- Legislators / Kentaro Fukumoto -- Winning elections in Japan's new electoral environment / Steven R. Reed -- Party politics in Japan / J. A. A. Stockwin -- The farm lobby / Aurelia George Mulgan -- Civil society and global citizenship in Japan / Jennifer Chan -- Welfare policy / Gregory J. Kasza and Takashi Horie -- Japan's subnational government: toward greater decentralization and participatory democracy / Purnendra Jain -- Reporting with wolves: pack journalism and the dissemination of political information / Ofer Feldman -- Revision of administrative law as shortcut to constitutional revision / Helen Hardacre.

ISBN:

023011797X (alk. paper)
9780230117976 (alk. paper)
0230117961 (alk. paper)
9780230117969 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)711989033

LCCN:

2011014002

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)