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Globalization and decentralization : institutional contexts, policy issues, and intergovernmental relations in Japan and the United States / edited by Jong S. Jun and Deil S. Wright. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Federal government--United States.
- Federal government.
- Central-local government relations--Japan.
- Central-local government relations.
- Political planning--United States.
- Political planning.
- Political planning--Japan.
- United States--Foreign economic relations.
- United States.
- Japan--Foreign economic relations.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 404 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the effects of global socio-economic forces on the domestic policies and administrative institutions of Japan and the United States, and it explains how these global factors have shifted power and authority downward from the national government to subnational governments. This major comparative study comprises ten pairs of essays written by leading Japanese and American scholars on parallel public policy issues, institutional patterns, and intergovernmental relations in Japan and the United States, all set in the context of globalization and its impact on decentralization in each country. The twenty contributors and the editors provide new insights into the domestic consequences of global interdependence by examining emerging strategies for dealing with environmental concerns, urban problems, infrastructure investments, financial policies, and human services issues. An important study of the changing global setting, Globalization and Decentralization emphasizes the innovative and adaptive roles played by Japanese and American state, provincial, regional, and local governments in responding to the dramatic economic and political power shifts created by the new world order.
- Contents:
- Globalization and decentralization : an overview / Jong S. Jun and Deil S. Wright
- From dual to coercive federalism in American intergovernmental relations / John Kincaid
- Intergovernmental relations in Japan : historical and legal patterns of power distribution between central and local governments / Fukashi Horie
- Innovative policies and administrative strategies for intergovernmental change in Japan / Hiromi Muto
- Remapping federalism : the rediscovery of civic governance in the United States / DeWitt John, Alexis A. Halley, and R. Scott Fosler
- Emerging regional organizational and institutional forms : strategies and prospects for transcending localism in the United States / John J. Kirlin
- Understanding regional administration in Japan : dynamism in stability and continuity in change / Takashi Nishio
- Roles of central government and local government in Japan's regional development policies / Naohisa Nagata
- Public infrastructure, capital investment, and economic development in the United States / Bruce D. McDowell
- "Tokyo problem" and the development of urban issues in Japan / Akira Nakamura
- Metropolitan growth and development in the United States : human problems and prospects / Ralph R. Widner
- Service integration revisited and reinvented : the strategic role of schools in human services / Astrid E. Merget and William G. Colman
- Social welfare issues in Japan : meeting the needs of an aging society / Akira Morita
- Perspectives on intergovernmental relations in Japan : the problem of solid waste management / Katsumi Yorimoto
- Interstate transport of solid waste : intergovernmental tensions and the conflicts between law and policy / Rosemary O'Leary and Paul Weiland
- Fiscal disparities in the United States : concepts, trends, and policies / Robert W. Rafuse, Jr.
- Politics of local government finances in Japan / Yoshiaki Kobayashi
- State and local boundary-spanning strategies in the United States : political, economic, and cultural transgovernmental interactions / John M. Kline
- Technology transer from Iowa to Japan : internationalization and the quality of life in rural areas / Kazunori Ishiguro
- Japanese local government in an era of global economic interdependency / Shinyasu Hoshino
- Domestic consequences of internationalization / Enid F. Beaumont.
- Notes:
- "A joint project of the National Institute for Research Advancement and National Academy of Public Administration."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-30460-2
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