Ikuo Kabashima is Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, and Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture.
Gill Steel is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Tokyo.
发表于2024-12-23
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图书标签: 日本政治 比较政治 民主政治
Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashimaa former professor who is now Governor of Kumamoto Prefectureand Gill Steel outline the basic features of politics in postwar Japan in an accessible and engaging manner. They focus on the dynamic relationship between voters and elected or nonelected officials and describe the shifts that have occurred in how voters respond to or control political elites and how officials both respond to, and attempt to influence, voters. The authors return time and again to the theme of changes in representation and accountability.
Kabashima and Steel set out to demolish the still prevalent myth that Japanese politics are a stagnant set of entrenched systems and interests that are fundamentally undemocratic. In its place, they reveal a lively and dynamic democracy, in which politicians and parties are increasingly listening to and responding to citizens' needs and interests and the media and other actors play a substantial role in keeping democratic accountability alive and healthy. Kabashima and Steel describe how all the political parties in Japan have adapted the ways in which they attempt to organize and channel votes and argue that contrary to many journalistic stereotypes the government is increasingly acting in the "the interests of citizens"the median voter's preferences.
作者其实是在用一种十分简单的方法分析战后日本政治的变迁,十分好懂。
评分作者其实是在用一种十分简单的方法分析战后日本政治的变迁,十分好懂。
评分小泉改革的那一部分挺好的。此书政党无所属选民的行动部分写的还是可以的。作者的眼光还真是很不错的,一般的学者就当下的政治,往往不易做出在理论层次上的推论。浦岛敢于敏锐地捕捉选民行动和日本政党体制选民层地变化,真是挺厉害的
评分难得的introduction 写的比后面好的日本政治入门普及书。英文也很浅,通俗易懂。从代表-问责的关系来谈制度变革后的后55年体制,起点很不错,但后面就流于形式了。最精彩的是70-71页的政治漫画。几乎所有的书评都提到,如果说真的有了制度/系统的变化,那么为什么仅仅小泉实现了Leadership? 哎,好像这个也不是kabashima的研究问题。 就好比krass说的,没办法,就小泉聪明的利用了改变的契机/
评分作者其实是在用一种十分简单的方法分析战后日本政治的变迁,十分好懂。
Changing Politics in Japan 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书