Changing Politics in Japan - Brossura

Kabashima, Ikuo; Steel, Gill

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ISBN 10: 0801476003 ISBN 13: 9780801476006

Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashima—a former professor who is now Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture—and Gill Steel outline the basic features of politics in postwar Japan in an accessible and engaging manner. They focus on the dynamic relationship between voters and elected or nonelected officials and describe the shifts that have occurred in how voters respond to or control political elites and how officials both respond to, and attempt to influence, voters. The authors return time and again to the theme of changes in representation and accountability.

Kabashima and Steel set out to demolish the still prevalent myth that Japanese politics are a stagnant set of entrenched systems and interests that are fundamentally undemocratic. In its place, they reveal a lively and dynamic democracy, in which politicians and parties are increasingly listening to and responding to citizens' needs and interests and the media and other actors play a substantial role in keeping democratic accountability alive and healthy. Kabashima and Steel describe how all the political parties in Japan have adapted the ways in which they attempt to organize and channel votes and argue that contrary to many journalistic stereotypes the government is increasingly acting in the "the interests of citizens"—the median voter's preferences.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Ikuo Kabashima is Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, and Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture. His many books include Elites and the Idea of Equality. Gill Steel is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Tokyo. She is coeditor of Reform in Japan: Assessing the Impact.

Ikuo Kabashima is Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, and Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture.
Gill Steel is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Tokyo.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cornell Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801476003
• ISBN 13: 9780801476006
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 186
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile