Japanese Democracy - Power, Coordination, and Performance (Paperback, New ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1998
First published:	September 1998
Authors:	Bradley Richardson
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	330
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-07664-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 > General
LSN:	0-300-07664-9
Barcode:	9780300076646

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