Governance for a new century
Subtitle: Japanese challenges, American experience
By: edited by Thomas E. Mann and Sasaki Takeshi.
Contributors: Mann, Thomas E.; Sasaki, Takeshi, 1942-; Nihon Kokusai Kōryū Sentā.; Brookings Institution.
Publisher: Japan Center for International Exchange; Distributed outside Japan by the Brookings Institution Press and Kinokuniya Co. Ltd.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tokyo; New York; Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
Subjects: Political planning -- Japan.; Political planning -- United States.; Political participation -- Japan.; Public opinion -- Japan.; Voting -- Japan.; Japan -- Politics and government -- 1989-; United States -- Politics and government.
Other titles: Japanese challenges, American experience
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes papers from two symposia held in Tokyo on April 7-11, 1999 and Washington, D.C. on March 5-6, 2001 as part of a joint study project between the Brookings Institution and the Japan Center for International Exchange.
Table of contents: title: Overview / Thomas E. Mann and Sasaki Takeshi; title: Distrust of politics : will voters transform the nature of governance? / Yoshida Shiníchi; title: Why does the wind blow? : the economy and the future of Japanese political reform / E.J. Dionne, Jr.; title: Breaking the state monopoly on public affairs / Katō Hideki; title: The tides of reform arrive in Japan / Paul C. Light; title: Changes in the Japanese policymaking process / Shiozaki Yasuhisa; title: The promise and peril of legislative reform / James M. Lindsay; title: Money and politics in Japan / Taniguchi Masaki; title: Managing the problems of political finance / Thomas E. Mann; title: The changing shape of party politics and governance in Japan / Sasaki Takeshi; title: The limits of institutional reform in Japan / R. Kent Weaver.