Japanese Democracy: Power, Coordination, and Performance Paperback - 1998
by Bradley M. Richardson
In this new analysis of democracy in Japan, Bradley Richardson reveals a fragmentation and discordance that refute the common conception of a semiauthoritarian and consensual Japanese state led by government bureaucracy. Richardson demonstrates how Japan's decentralized political system differs from Great Britain's but resembles that of Italy.
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In this new analysis of democracy in Japan, Bradley Richardson refutes the widely accepted hypothesis that postwar Japan has been a semiauthoritarian and consensual state, heavily influenced by corporations and led by the government bureaucracy. On the contrary, Richardson's extensive newspaper and documentary research shows that Japanese political life has been extremely fragmented and discordant at all levels - in the bureaucracy, legislatures, parties, and interest groups and in business and industry. In Japanese Democracy, Richardson explores power relations and demonstrates how Japan's political system is unlike Great Britain's and similar to those of the United States and Italy, where politics is decentralized and decisions are made at many levels. He draws some important conclusions: that Japan's postwar industrial policy has not always been successful, that the country is as much an economic welfare state as it is an economic "miracle", and that the lack of strong leadership has kept Japan from playing a more assertive role in the international arena. As in the United States, private interests hold central policymaking processes hostage, and weak leadership prevails.
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- Title Japanese Democracy: Power, Coordination, and Performance
- Author Bradley M. Richardson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-09-10
- ISBN 9780300076646 / 0300076649
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.17 x 0.76 in (23.52 x 15.67 x 1.93 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress subjects Political parties - Japan, Japan - Politics and government - 1945-
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96022203
- Dewey Decimal Code 321.809
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