Decentralization is a curious policy for a central government to
pursue. If politics is essentially about the struggle for power,
why would anyone want to give away the power that one struggled for
and won? This book argues that it is precisely party competition in
search of power that propels decentralization.
Koichi Nakano develops his core argument through in-depth,
qualitative research on the politics of reform in France and Japan.
Introducing the concept of oppositional policy, he traces the
process through which parties in opposition reinvent their
ideologies and policy platforms in an attempt to present themselves
as the voice of the governed, broaden popular support through the
advocacy of enhanced democratic control of government, and proceed
to implement some of these oppositional policies after capturing
power. This book, thus, takes the role of political parties in the
democratic process seriously - parties take up certain issues and
espouse certain solutions actively as weapons in the power struggle
both on the electoral front and in the policy process. Party
competition is not merely a formal condition of democracy; it is
also a mechanism with substantive policy impact on its
evolution.
Party Politics and Decentralization in Japan and France will be
of interest to students of Japanese and French politics and
comparative politics in general.
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