The Policy-Making Process in Contemporary Japan

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-9

3. Policy Decisions Japanese-style

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. The Political Process of Welfare Policy Formation: The 1985 Public Pensions System Reform

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      Pages 13-63

   3. Fundamental Patterns in Japanese Politics

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      Pages 64-100

4. The Electoral and Policy-Making Processes

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   2. Elections and Policy-Making

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      Pages 103-156

5. Local Politics and Policy Decisions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Public Decision-Making and the Articulation and Mediation of Regional Interests

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      Pages 159-205

   3. Technocracy and Political Friction in the Big City: The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Relocation Decision-making Process

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      Pages 206-234

6. Back Matter

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This book deals with the public policy-making process in contemporary Japan testifying a new dictum: 'The various phases of the policy process cause politics'. The analytical focus is threefold: encompassing the policy-making process on the national level; elections and the policy-making process; and the regional policy and decision-making. These analyses offer a number of original and comparative data on Japanese politics. This book also tries to interpret the basic pattern of Japanese politics, which contributes to a clear understanding of the dynamic aspects of the political process and political economy after the Second World War.

• decision-making
• economy
• elections
• Electoral
• government
• mediation
• Policy
• political process
• politics

• Meiji Gakuin University, Shonan-nobi,Kanagawa, Tokyo, Japan

  Minoru Nakano

MINORU NAKANO

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