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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