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

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Japanese politics today : from karaoke to kabuki democracy / edited by Takashi Inoguchi and Purnendra Jain.
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Inoguchi, Takashi.
  • Jain, Purnendra.
Description
xiv, 222 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Japanese politics now, with seven prime ministers appointed within this decade and the second major political party turnover taken place within the last two decades, is undergoing a great transition. This book explores the gradual shift from what the editors call karaoke democracy to kabuki democracy.
Subject
  • Democracy > Japan
  • Democracy
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference
  • Politics and government
  • Japan > Politics and government > 1989-
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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
  • 9780230117969 (alk. paper)
  • 0230117961 (alk. paper)
  • 9780230117976 (alk. paper)
  • 023011797X (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2011014002
OCLC
711989033
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library