Kuroda The Core of Japanese Democracy

Latent Interparty Politics
2005
ISBN: 978-1-4039-7834-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten, eBook

This book seeks to explain how politics actually operates in the Japanese Diet using the author's bilayer theory or dual power structure theory. It is about how politics in Japan operates behind closed doors and how laws are actually made in the Diet. While some parts of the process remain hidden-subterfuge is inherently part of politics-the author uses interviews with party officials, current and former kokkai taisaku-inkai committee members of all parties in the Diet to elucidate the process as much as possible.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuroda, Y.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Dissimulation, Enigma, Formalist, Prismatic Society to Bilayer Theory The Bilayer Theory of Japanese Politics Japanese politics in Bilayer Perspective The History of Kokutai Politics: 1980-1993 The Origin and Nature of Bilayer Structure Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

YASUMASA KURODA is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Hawaii, USA. He is author of Japanese Culture in Comparative Perspective (Praeger, ND) and Japan in a New World Order (Nova Science, 1994). He currently lives in Yokohama, Japan.