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Author : James Arthur Ainscow Stockwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Toward Reform and Transparency in Japanese Policymaking Processes written by James Arthur Ainscow Stockwin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Ann Amyx
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780415304696
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Japanese Governance written by Jennifer Ann Amyx and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan Inc was once used to describe the powerful political and economic system that delivers Japan's transformation to an industrial power. This book is about the breakdown and failure of policy coherence in Japan in the 1990s and how the political economy of Japan has changed in response. The essays in the volume seek to identify where change has occurred, as well as where things have not changed and why. The issue of policymaking transparency is accorded particular attention. The book covers a wide range of Japanese institutions and policy areas, including the political party system, electoral and legal reforms, deliberation councils and the financial and agricultural sectors. The findings suggest that resistance to change through the political system is at the root of Japan's inability to deal with its national policy problems. Nonetheless, there has been considerable reform and change towards more open economic and political competition. And, these changes profoundly affect the way in which foreign governments must now relate to domestic political processes in their dealings with Japan. This interdisciplinary book draws together contributions from experts in political science, economics, law and Japanese studies to give a deeper understanding of how Japan's political economy and policymaking processes are working today.
Author : Remi Bauer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656487553
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (564 download)
Download or read book "Breaking the Iron Triangle". Contemporary Attempts on Reforming the Japanese Policy Making Process written by Remi Bauer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,1, Cologne Business School Köln, course: East Asia Management, language: English, abstract: On August 30, 2009, Lower House elections for the bicameral Diet were held in Japan where the DPJ, short for Democratic Party of Japan, achieved a landslide victory. Never before has the opposition party in Japan reached such a clear success in becoming the new ruling party of Japan and making the thus far dominant Liberal Democratic Party, abbreviated as LDP, the new opposition. As the newly elected government argues that the Iron Triangle Model, which dominates Japanese policy making processes, is outdated and proposed plans on how to reform it, new discussions about this post-war concept arose. Thus, this paper will deal with the following questions. In how far has the Iron Triangle Model been reformed in the recent years? Is Japan shifting away from this post-war model and, what, if anything, has been achieved by contemporary reforms? In how far are the reform attempts of former Prime Minister Koizumi and Prime Minister Hatoyama similar to each other? The goal of the paper is to answer these questions while also giving a diligent insight and thorough understanding of the Iron Triangle Model. Moreover, this model for Japanese policy making and its up-to-dateness will be rated. For answering these research questions, not only the newly proposed plans of the Democratic Party of Japan are to be elaborated and evaluated, but also the contemporary reform attempt of Koizumi Jun’ichirō, which started in 2001, is to be explained. While most scientific analyses and traditional studies tended to focus almost exclusively on either Prime Minister Koizumi’s or Prime Minister Hatoyama’s reform attempts in economic as well as institutional terms, this paper spotlights on a juxtaposition of Koizumi Jun'ichirō and Hatoyama Yukio’s institutional reforms. The reform attempts will be compared and evaluated based on scientific journals and research papers that solely focus on one of the actors or specific topics discussed in this analysis combining their findings. Also, official government information, publications by political parties and data from textbooks will deliver theoretical background and additional insight. The theory applied to solve the research question is the Iron Triangle Model, which characterizes Japanese policy making throughout the post-war era. An in-depth evaluation of the model, the actor’s roles as well as the reform attempts themselves will be executed to present a sound juxtaposition.
Author : M. Nakano
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230375510
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Policy-Making Process in Contemporary Japan written by M. Nakano and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-11-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the public policy-making process in contemporary Japan testifying a new dictum: 'The various phases of the policy process cause politics'. The analytical focus is threefold: encompassing the policy-making process on the national level; elections and the policy-making process; and the regional policy and decision-making. These analyses offer a number of original and comparative data on Japanese politics. This book also tries to interpret the basic pattern of Japanese politics, which contributes to a clear understanding of the dynamic aspects of the political process and political economy after the Second World War.
Author : Satoshi Machidori S
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781835208458
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)
Download or read book A Second Look at Political Reform the Future Course of a Changing Japanese State written by Satoshi Machidori S and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political reform has been a focal point of Japanese politics since the late 1980s. Its target included many institutions, covering almost all the public spheres. It comprehensively transformed and continues to reform the Japanese polity. While institutional changes were almost complete by the early 2000s, they do not become the past. Currently we see their results and effects in daily political processes. For example, we find words such as "prime ministerial rule (shusho shihai)" and "prime minister's office leadership (Kantei shudō)" in many forms of news coverage today. Such terms were seldom used for the description and analysis of policymaking processes in postwar Japan before the 1990s. It should be noted that many industrialized countries tackled comprehensive reforms of political institutions between the late 1980s and early 2000s. France shortened the presidential tenure by constitutional reform in 2002 to prevent cohabitation, a salient political phenomenon in the 1980s and the 1990s. Italy introduced a new rule for the lower house election, which was a mixed (parallel) system of the single-member district one and proportional representation (SMD-PR) in 1994, in order to establish a more competitive relationship between two major parties or party alliances. A similar electoral system was also adopted in New Zealand in 1996, which was aimed rather at having more diverse parties in legislature. There was clearly a major trend towards changing electoral rules as well as the roles and tenures of the chief executives. We can easily add more cases such as Korea and Taiwan on the list. Accordingly, political reforms in Japan should be understood not only in the context of postwar Japanese history with its changing socioeconomic and international environment, but also in connection with the trend shared by other industrialized nations. While this book does concern itself with the continuities and discontinuities from the pre-reform Japanese politics, relying, as it does, largely on works in Japanese, it is always conscious of the connection with theoretical frameworks for analyzing political reforms in the industrialized countries.
Author : Nihon Kokusai Kōryū Sentā
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Policymaking in Japan; Defining the Role of Politicians written by Nihon Kokusai Kōryū Sentā and published by . This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major evolution in Japan's system of governance has been taking place in recent years as politicians have increasingly begun to participate in the policymaking process where bureaucrats used to play the predominant role. The six chapters in this volume are written by members of the Diet from the Liberal Democratic, Democratic, and New Komeito parties. These members of the new generation of politicians in Japan are concerned about designing a new architecture for policymaking.Relations between politicians and bureaucrats and how those relations should be restructured are discussed. Restructuring the policymaking process also involves questions of the relationships between the prime minister and the governing party organizations, the role of Diet committees, and the issue of staff support for politicians, parties, the Diet, and the prime minister. Each chapter explores these and other policymaking matters in the context of a specific policy issue, such as finance, information technology, public works, education, and corporate policy. Chapters provide important insights into the substantive issue at hand and the policy process relating to it.Contributors include Japanese House of Representatives members Nemoto Takumi, Furukawa Motohisa, Ito Tatsuya, Maehara Seiji, Hase Hiroshi, and Ueda Isamu.
Author : J.A.A. Stockwin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135312001
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Collected Writings of J. A. A. Stockwin written by J.A.A. Stockwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume opens with a detailed autobiographical sketch of the author's original 'meeting with Japan', which began in 1961after taking up a post at ANU, Canberra (the result of a successful response to an advert in the Manchester Guardian). After twenty-one years in Australia, Arthur Stockwin moved back to the UK to take the chair of the then recently-established Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies. He was to be in post there also for twenty one years, his retirement coinciding with publication of his Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan (Routledge, 2003).
Author : Henry Laurence
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801437731
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Money Rules written by Henry Laurence and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Laurence traces financial market reform in Britain and Japan over the last two decades, charting the movement of the Anglo-Saxon and Japanese styles of capitalism toward a new, hybrid form of economic organization. He explains what these two stories reveal about changes in the nature of business-government relations in an age of convergence.The package of reforms known in Britain as the "Big Bang" and in Japan as "Biggu Bangu" decontrolled prices, liberalized the number and nature of financial instruments that could be traded, opened both countries' markets to foreigners, and introduced a much greater degree of competition than would have been believed possible twenty years earlier. At the same time, Britain and Japan have undertaken stringent measures to improve the transparency and fairness of their markets.Why did two countries with traditionally very different regulatory styles adopt such strikingly similar reforms, and why did these reforms result in a mixture of deregulation in some areas and tighter control in others? In explaining these apparent contradictions, Laurence invokes the powerful domestic political impact of international capital mobility.Money Rules challenges the view that bureaucracy is the most powerful actor in the policymaking process. Using extensive interviews with more than one hundred policymakers and financial professionals in both countries, the author rebuts conventional wisdom. He argues that the events in Britain and Japan demonstrate striking crossnational convergence of political and economic institutions.
Author : Japan. Headquarters for the Administrative Reform of the Central Government
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Central Government Reform of Japan written by Japan. Headquarters for the Administrative Reform of the Central Government and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides description of efforts and procedures to reform the organization of the Central Government of Japan.
Author : Jeff Graham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135789053
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Japan - Change and Continuity written by Jeff Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan is currently undergoing many interesting changes, which the Japanese government trumpets as fundamental reform, but which some observers suspect will turn out to be superficial, part of a long sequence of changes which have been much less far-reaching than at first anticipated. This book provides a survey of the many changes currently in progress in Japan, including political reform, economic deregulation and liberalisation, and reforms to environmental policy, science and technology, education, and immigration policy. The essays in this volume explore the reform process in Japan overall, and provides a thorough overview of major current developments in Japan.
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464807744
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Making Politics Work for Development written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.
Author : Mr.J. D. Craig
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 155775697X
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Transparency in Government Operations written by Mr.J. D. Craig and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-02-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transparency in government operations is widely regarded as an important precondition for macroeconomic fiscal sustainability, good governance, and overall fiscal rectitude. Notably, the Interim Committee, at its April and September 1996 meetings, stressed the need for greater fiscal transparency. Prompted by these concerns, this paper represents a first attempt to address many of the aspects of transparency in government operations. It provides an overview of major issues in fiscal transparency and examines the IMF's role in promoting transparency in government operations.
Author : Jennifer Amyx
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134407718
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Japanese Governance written by Jennifer Amyx and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan Inc was once used to describe the powerful political and economic system that delivers Japan's transformation to an industrial power. This book is about the breakdown and failure of policy coherence in Japan in the 1990s and how the political economy of Japan has changed in response. The essays in the volume seek to identify where change has occurred, as well as where things have not changed and why. The issue of policymaking transparency is accorded particular attention. The book covers a wide range of Japanese institutions and policy areas, including the political party system, electoral and legal reforms, deliberation councils and the financial and agricultural sectors. The findings suggest that resistance to change through the political system is at the root of Japan's inability to deal with its national policy problems. Nonetheless, there has been considerable reform and change towards more open economic and political competition. And, these changes profoundly affect the way in which foreign governments must now relate to domestic political processes in their dealings with Japan. This interdisciplinary book draws together contributions from experts in political science, economics, law and Japanese studies to give a deeper understanding of how Japan's political economy and policymaking processes are working today.
Author : Karol Zakowski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319630946
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Japan’s Foreign Policy Making written by Karol Zakowski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates the impact of the 2001 central government reforms on effective foreign policy making in Japan. It puts a special focus on the evolution of the domestic institutional factors and decision-making processes behind Japan’s foreign policy, while also analyzing the development of Japan’s external relations with various other countries, such as the US, China and North Korea. Adhering to the neoclassical realist approach, the authors show that, thanks to a more independent Kantei-based form of diplomacy, Japan’s prime ministers were able to strategically respond to international developments, and to pursue their own diplomatic endeavors more boldly. At the same time, they demonstrate that the effectiveness of this proactive posture was still heavily dependent on the decision-makers’ ability to form cohesive coalitions and select suitable institutional tools, which enabled them to influence domestic and international affairs.
Author : James G. McGann
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815732929
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Think Tanks written by James G. McGann and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of think tanks—with uniquely Asian characteristics Policy research institutes—better known as think tanks—;are long established and well known in Western countries but have developed only in recent years in much of the rest of the world. Globalization is partly responsible for the new growth in think tanks, since few issues are totally domestic and governments and citizens increasingly understand the need for well-informed policy advice. Think tanks have become especially important in many Asian nations over the past decade, coinciding with their rise to new prominence in international affairs. Asia's major players— the People's Republic of China, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore—and more recently countries in Central Asia like Kazakhstan now have major think tanks. These institutions have become the go-to organizations for proposals and policy advice on key economic, security, social and environmental issues. This book by a noted expert in the field traces the growing influence of these policy actors in Asia, places the trend in historical context, and explores how the region's countries have fostered the growth of think tanks with uniquely Asian characteristics.
Author : Mathias Reimann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192565516
Total Pages : 1536 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law written by Mathias Reimann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 1536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised and updated second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law provides a wide-ranging and diverse critical survey of comparative law at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It summarizes and evaluates a discipline that is time-honoured but not easily understood in all its dimensions. In the current era of globalization, this discipline is more relevant than ever, both on the academic and on the practical level. The Handbook is divided into three main sections. Section I surveys how comparative law has developed and where it stands today in various parts of the world. This includes not only traditional model jurisdictions, such as France, Germany, and the United States, but also other regions like Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Latin America. Section II then discusses the major approaches to comparative law - its methods, goals, and its relationship with other fields, such as legal history, economics, and linguistics. Finally, section III deals with the status of comparative studies in over a dozen subject matter areas, including the major categories of private, economic, public, and criminal law. The Handbook contains forty-eight chapters written by experts from around the world. The aim of each chapter is to provide an accessible, original, and critical account of the current state of comparative law in its respective area which will help to shape the agenda in the years to come. Each chapter also includes a short bibliography referencing the definitive works in the field.
Author : Akiyoshi Horiuchi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Implications of Recent Japanese Legal Reforms written by Akiyoshi Horiuchi and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
