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Democratic Reform in Japan / ed. by Gill Steel, Sherry L. Martin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (253 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781626373297
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.952 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1 The National Level -- 2 Reforming the Liberal Democratic Party -- 3 Campaign Behavior: The Limits to Change -- 4 Diet Members and Seat Inheritance: Keeping It in the Family -- 5 Policy Preferences and Party Platforms: What Voters Want vs. What Voters Get -- 6 Reforming the Bureaucracy -- Part 2 The Local Level -- 7 Keeping Women in Their Place: Penetrating Male-dominated Urban and Rural Assemblies -- 8 Prefectural Politics: Party and Electoral Stagnation -- 9 The Potential and Limits of Antiparty Electoral Movements in Local Politics -- 10 Civil Society and Democracy: Reforming Nonprofit Organization Law -- Part 3 Conclusion -- 11 Contemporary Japanese Democracy -- List of Acronyms -- References -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: Widespread dissatisfaction in Japan in the 1990s set the stage for numerous political reforms aimed at enhancing representation and accountability. But have these reforms in fact improved the quality of Japanese democracy? Through the lens of this question, the authors explore contemporary Japanese politics at the national, local, and grassroots levels. Their systematic analysis of when and how citizens attempt to create and use new opportunities to articulate political interests offers insights not only on the current state of Japanese democracy, but also on the dynamics of political behavior over all.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1 The National Level -- 2 Reforming the Liberal Democratic Party -- 3 Campaign Behavior: The Limits to Change -- 4 Diet Members and Seat Inheritance: Keeping It in the Family -- 5 Policy Preferences and Party Platforms: What Voters Want vs. What Voters Get -- 6 Reforming the Bureaucracy -- Part 2 The Local Level -- 7 Keeping Women in Their Place: Penetrating Male-dominated Urban and Rural Assemblies -- 8 Prefectural Politics: Party and Electoral Stagnation -- 9 The Potential and Limits of Antiparty Electoral Movements in Local Politics -- 10 Civil Society and Democracy: Reforming Nonprofit Organization Law -- Part 3 Conclusion -- 11 Contemporary Japanese Democracy -- List of Acronyms -- References -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book

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Widespread dissatisfaction in Japan in the 1990s set the stage for numerous political reforms aimed at enhancing representation and accountability. But have these reforms in fact improved the quality of Japanese democracy? Through the lens of this question, the authors explore contemporary Japanese politics at the national, local, and grassroots levels. Their systematic analysis of when and how citizens attempt to create and use new opportunities to articulate political interests offers insights not only on the current state of Japanese democracy, but also on the dynamics of political behavior over all.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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