The Core of Japanese Democracy : Latent Interparty Politics / by Y. Kuroda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuroda, Yasumasa, 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia--Politics and government.

Asia.

International relations.

Political science.

Asian Politics.

International Relations.

Political Science.

Local Subjects:

Asian Politics.

International Relations.

Political Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Introduction : dissimulation, enigma, formalist, prismatic society to bilayer theory

2. The bilayer theory

3. Japanese politics in bilayer perspective

4. The history of IPRC politics : 1890-1993

5. The origin and nature of the bilayer structure

6. The core of Japanese democracy

7. Conclusion : summary and implications.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611363802

9781281363800

1281363804

9781403978349

1403978344

OCLC:

123537767