The Routledge handbook of Japanese politics
By: edited by Alisa Gaunder
Series: Routledge handbooks; Routledge handbooks
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9780415551373; 9780203829875
Subjects: Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-416) and index.
Table of contents: title: The institutional landscape of Japanese politics / Alisa Gaunder; title: The Liberal Democratic Party: an explanation of its successes and failures / Steven R. Reed; title: The Democratic Party of Japan: development, organization and programmatic profile / Patrick Koellner; title: The rationale for coalition government / J.A.A. Stockwin; title: Prime ministerial leadership / Tomohito Shinoda; title: Election systems and campaign rules / Ray Christensen; title: Money in Japanese politics: regulation and reform / Matthew Carlson; title: The influence of voters / Sherry L. Martin; title: Democratizing the law in Japan / Jonathan David Marshall; title: Local government in Japan / Jun Saito and Kyohei Yamada; title: State and civil society in Japan / Yuko Kawato, Robert J. Pekkanen and Hidehiro Yamamoto; title: The Japanese conception of citizenship / Yumiko Mikanagi; title: Volunteer organizations (re)making democracy in Japan / Mary Alice Haddad; title: Civil society and the internet / Isa Ducke; title: The labor movement / Lonny E. Carlile; title: The women's movements / Ki-young Shin; title: The rise (and fall?) of social equality: the evolution of Japan's welfare state / Gregory J. Kasza; title: Policies for an aging/low fertility society / Leonard Schoppa; title: Gender-related social policy / Hiroko Takeda; title: Japanese immigration policy / Ken Haig; title: Japan's environmental politics and change: local, national and global / Peng Er Lam; title: The evolution of the Japanese policymaking system / Gregory W. Noble; title: The politics of economic reform / Aurelia George Mulgan; title: The politics of scarcity: fixing Japan's public finances / Gene Park; title: The politics and implications of postal reform / Patricia L. Maclachlan; title: Japan and East Asian economic regionalism / Mireya Solís; title: The haunt of history in Japan's foreign relations / Jennifer Lind; title: The politics of national security / Andrew L. Oros; title: Japan-U.S. relations / Michael J. Green and Nicholas Szechenyi; title: Japan-China relations: structure or management? / Ming Wan; title: Drifting apart? Japan-EU relations / Julie Gilson; title: The other Rashomon story: international norms and continuing constructions of Japaneseness / David Leheny.