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Political opposition and local politics in Japan
- Title
- Political opposition and local politics in Japan / edited by Kurt Steiner, Ellis S. Krauss, and Scott C. Flanagan.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1980.
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- Description
- ix, 486 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Japan's national government, and most of its local governments, have been in conservative hands for more than three decades. Recently, however, the strength of preogressive opposition forces has been increasing at the local level. The contributors to this volume analyze this increasing opposition to determine wither it is a temporary phenomenon or potends permanent changes. In doing so, they contribute to theory building in the field of comparative local politics and, by focusing on Japan, they broaden the scope of a field that has tended to concentrate only on Europe and the developing world. The book falls into three main sections. The first correlates electoral trends with demographic and socioeconomic changes as well as with attidtudinal changes related to voting behavior. The second deals with the emergence and significance of citizens' movements against environmental pollution in Japan. The third section considers progressive local administrations in terms of support mobilization and policy making. A case study augments each section.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Note
- Based on a conference sponsored by the Joint Committee on Japanese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- [1. Introduction] -- Toward a framework for the study of local opposition / Kurt Steiner -- [2. Electoral trends] -- Electoral change in Japan : an overview / Scott C. Flanagan -- Political opposition and big city elections in Japan, 1947-1975 / Terry Edward MacDougall -- Opposition in the suburbs / Gary D. Allinson -- National and local voting trends : cross-level linkages and correlates of change / Scott C. Flanagan -- [3. Citizens' movements] -- The growth and impact of environmental protest in Japan / Ellis S. Krauss and Bradford L. Simcock -- Political socialization through citizen's movements / Margaret A. McKean -- Civic protest in Mushima : citizens' movements and the politics of the environment in contemporary Japan / Jack G. Lewis -- [4. Progressive local administrations] -- Progressive local administrations : local public policy and local-national relations / Kurt Steiner -- Political choice and policy change in medium-sized Japanese cities, 1962-1974 / Ronald Aqua -- Opposition in power : the development and maintenance of leftist government in Kyoto Prefecture / Ellis S. Krauss -- [5. Conclusion] -- The partisan politicization of local government : causes and consequences / Scott C. Flanagan, Kurt Steiner, and Ellis S. Krauss.
- ISBN
- 0691076251
- 9780691076256
- 0691022011
- 9780691022017
- 0691101094
- 9780691101095
- LCCN
- 80007555
- OCLC
- ocm06378362
- 6378362
- SCSB-18916
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library