Hideo Otake is professor of political science at Kyoto University.
The 1990s were a time of political upheaval in Japan. When the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost its monopoly on power, which it had held for 38 years, as a result of the House of Representatives election of 1993, Japanese politics entered the coalition era. From 1993 to 1998, the reins of government were held by two types of coalitions: non-LDP coalitions and coalitions that included the LDP and its longtime rival, the Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDP). Although the LDP organized its own government in the early summer of 1998, that year's House of Councillors election returned Japan to the coalition era. The coalition era in the 1990s was also a period of party reorganization. In the fall of 1998, only two parties remained of the nine that had existed in the summer of 1993. This shuffling of power between the LDP and coalition governments affected the policymaking process in general and certain issues in particular. In this book, six political scientists present in-depth analyses of power shuffles and policymaking in Japan in the 1990s. Specific cases of policymaking discussed include administrative reform of quasi-governmental organizations dealing with public finance and business operations; the review of telecommunications policy undertaken in tandem with the consideration of issues concerning the privatization and deregulation of the telecom giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation; and the establishment of long-term care insurance (LTCI) for the elderly. Typical of the style followed in the case study chapters, the discussion of LTCI gives background on the issues concerned, examines the relevant political events at each stage of the policy process--agenda-setting, preparation of a draft bill, compromises made, and final outcome--and analyzes how successful the coalition governments were in changing long-established patterns of policymaking. Other chapters present the backdrop to the political events of the 1990s by examining the impact of voter preference on party realignment and policy conflict from the 1970s to the present, and discuss structural reform by the SDPJ and the changes it made in policy when its chairman was named prime minister in 1994. Also considered is the degree of similarity and difference among the policymaking processes of the LDP and the various coalition governments.
發表於2024-12-25
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圖書標籤: 日本政治 民主政治 比較政治 政黨政治 公共政策
新川,大嶽的論文還是可以的~
評分新川,大嶽的論文還是可以的~
評分新川,大嶽的論文還是可以的~
評分新川,大嶽的論文還是可以的~
評分Levithan某期日文版的英譯本。最近不是大概也有研究者開始論及連立政權對於反恐和安全保障政策的影響瞭麼?就研究設計而言,的確是不錯的想法。90年代之後,日本幾乎所有的政權皆為連立政權,自變量有變化,在公共和外交政策的因變量上也有變化。而且,不同政黨的選舉基礎並不一緻,他們政策改變之後,在選舉上的成敗也有得有失,這也是進行研究設計比較好的一麵。不過,問題還可以說的更加復雜一些。就日本而言,不同政黨在國內政策上的閤意度是相較其他民主國傢更高一些的。連立政權內部的不同黨派,是較難以構成veto player的,這是因為,在政策過程中的閤意問題可以轉化為國會運營過程中,政策大連立的形成。這也意味著即便連立政權中比例選區所産生的小黨,也未必能夠堅持自己的極端立場。無論如何,還是有意義的一個論題的
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