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Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan / ed. by Gary D. Allinson, Yasunori Sone.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 8 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9781501733147
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  • 338.952 20/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Tables and Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Analyzing Political Change: Topics, Findings, and Implications -- PART ONE. STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF JAPAN'S DYNAMIC POLITY -- Introduction -- 1. Citizenship, Fragmentation, and the Negotiated Polity -- 2. Patterned Pluralism under Challenge: The Policies of the 1980s -- 3. State Strength and the Public Interest -- PART TWO. NEGOTIATING FINANCIAL REFORM -- Introduction -- 4. Financial Deregulation and Interest Intermediation -- 5. Deregulation and Legalization of Financial Policy -- PART THREE. NEGOTIATING LABOR'S ROLE -- Introduction -- 6. A Tale of Twin Industries: Labor Accommodation in the Private Sector -- 7. Public Sector Labor and the Privatization Challenge: The Railway and Telecommunications Unions -- 8. Rengo and Its Osmotic Networks -- PART FOUR. SITES AND MODES OF NEGOTIATION -- Introduction -- 9. Of Fairy Cloaks and Familiar Talks: The Politics of Consultation -- 10. The Rise and Retreat of a Neoliberal Reform: Controversies over Land Use Policy -- 11. Privatizing Regulation: The Implementation of the Large-Scale Retail Stores Law -- Conclusion: Structuring Political Bargains: Government, Gyokai, and Markets -- Index
Summary: Rising affluence, social fragmentation, and international participation have wrought subtle but important changes in Japanese politics. Political resources have expanded, political coalitions have become more fluid, and political disputes have become more vigorously contested. In this book six American and six Japanese specialists join to identify and interpret these changes. They start from the administrative reform movement of the 1980s, which magnified the significance of contests over public and private interests.Several of the authors examine domestic issues profoundly shaped by the reform movement: deregulation of financial services, privatization and its consequences, reorganization within the labor movement, negotiation of land use polices, and regulation of retail trade. Others adopt a broader perspective to illuminate the nation's shifting policy agenda, the changing role of the state and its relation to public interests, and the historical and socioeconomic context of political change. An approach that acknowledges the pervasiveness and importance of continuous bargaining, they maintain, promises to enhance our understanding of the domestic politics of contemporary Japan.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Tables and Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Analyzing Political Change: Topics, Findings, and Implications -- PART ONE. STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF JAPAN'S DYNAMIC POLITY -- Introduction -- 1. Citizenship, Fragmentation, and the Negotiated Polity -- 2. Patterned Pluralism under Challenge: The Policies of the 1980s -- 3. State Strength and the Public Interest -- PART TWO. NEGOTIATING FINANCIAL REFORM -- Introduction -- 4. Financial Deregulation and Interest Intermediation -- 5. Deregulation and Legalization of Financial Policy -- PART THREE. NEGOTIATING LABOR'S ROLE -- Introduction -- 6. A Tale of Twin Industries: Labor Accommodation in the Private Sector -- 7. Public Sector Labor and the Privatization Challenge: The Railway and Telecommunications Unions -- 8. Rengo and Its Osmotic Networks -- PART FOUR. SITES AND MODES OF NEGOTIATION -- Introduction -- 9. Of Fairy Cloaks and Familiar Talks: The Politics of Consultation -- 10. The Rise and Retreat of a Neoliberal Reform: Controversies over Land Use Policy -- 11. Privatizing Regulation: The Implementation of the Large-Scale Retail Stores Law -- Conclusion: Structuring Political Bargains: Government, Gyokai, and Markets -- Index

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Rising affluence, social fragmentation, and international participation have wrought subtle but important changes in Japanese politics. Political resources have expanded, political coalitions have become more fluid, and political disputes have become more vigorously contested. In this book six American and six Japanese specialists join to identify and interpret these changes. They start from the administrative reform movement of the 1980s, which magnified the significance of contests over public and private interests.Several of the authors examine domestic issues profoundly shaped by the reform movement: deregulation of financial services, privatization and its consequences, reorganization within the labor movement, negotiation of land use polices, and regulation of retail trade. Others adopt a broader perspective to illuminate the nation's shifting policy agenda, the changing role of the state and its relation to public interests, and the historical and socioeconomic context of political change. An approach that acknowledges the pervasiveness and importance of continuous bargaining, they maintain, promises to enhance our understanding of the domestic politics of contemporary Japan.

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