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1. The political conditions for economic reform -- 2. Koizumi's power base -- 3. Koizumi's reform team, its policies and approach -- 4. Opportunities lost -- 5. Party-bureaucratic government -- 6. Policy stalemate -- 7. Team weaknesses, tactical flaws and policy defects -- 8. Koizumi's failed revolution. |
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Japan's Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform asks why, despite all the high expectations, the Japanese public's desire for economic reform, and leadership of a majority coalition in a parliamentary democracy, the reformer Prime Minister Koizumi has not achieved the economic reforms expected of him since he surprisingly attained power over a year ago. To unravel this 'puzzle', Aurelia George Mulgan eschews the simplicities of both cultural and rational choice explanations and systematically tests the propositions in the comparative literature on 'failed reform'. The result is one of the best books ever written about contemporary Japanese politics. It explains how, despite British-style parliamentary institutions, Japan's very 'un-Westminster' traditional policymaking process involving the ruling party and the bureaucracy's structure and linkage has stymied and will probably continue to stymie even a sincere and active Prime Minister's best reform intentions. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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English. |
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Japan -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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Japan -- Economic policy -- 1989-
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Japon -- Politique économique -- 1989-
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Japon -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1989-
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Humanities.
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History.
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Regional and national history.
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Asian history.
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History: earliest times to present day.
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
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Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy
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Economic policy
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Politics and government
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Japan https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkT7GyCmyjxytDfqk6Yfq
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Since 1989
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Political studies |
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Japan |
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Print version: Mulgan, Aurelia George. Japan's failed revolution : Koizumi and the politics of economic reform. Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : Australian National University E Press, 2013 9781925021042 |
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9781925021059 (electronic bk.) |
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192502105X (electronic bk.) |
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1925021041 |
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9781925021042 |
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9781921862059 (ebook) |
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9781921862042 (paperback) |
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AU@ 000050883373 |
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GBVCP 865754128 |
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GBVCP 1008658669 |
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AU@ 000050883416 |
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AU@ 000069219392 |
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