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Koizumi and Japanese politics : reform strategies and leadership style / YuÌ Uchiyama ; translated by Carl Freire.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Uchiyama, YuÌ, 1966- author.
- Series:
- Routledge/University of Tokyo series ; 1.
- Routledge / University of Tokyo series ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Koizumi, Jun'ichirō, 1942-.
- Koizumi, Jun'ichirō.
- Political planning--Japan.
- Political planning.
- Japan--Politics and government--1989-.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxon, [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book offers an empirical and theoretical study of the Koizumi administration, covering such issues as the characteristics of its political style, its domestic and foreign policies, and its larger historical significance. The key questions that guide its approach are: what enabled Koizumi to exercise unusually strong leadership, and what structural transformations of Japanese politics did he achieve?Uchiyama looks at policy-making processes, newly created institutional arenas such as the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, Koizumi's populist strategy, foreign policy, an
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Editorial note; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Koizumi's management of politics; 2 Domestic affairs: The battle over neoliberal reform; 3 Foreign relations: Closer to America, further from East Asia; 4 The Koizumi administration in historical and theoretical perspective; 5 Legacies of the Koizumi administration; Postscript: The Koizumi and Abe administrations; Afterword and acknowledgements; Appendix 1 Diet election results under the Koizumi administration; Appendix 2 Koizumi cabinet approval rating trends in public opinion surveys
- Appendix 3 The Koizumi administration: a timelineAppendix 4 Glossary; Appendix 5 Personal names; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-14970-4
- 1-135-14971-2
- 1-282-57012-9
- 9786612570124
- 0-203-85637-6
- 9780203856376
- OCLC:
- 609859146
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