Contested Governance in Japan: Sites and IssuesGlenn D. Hook Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volume discusses the contested nature of governance in Japan and the ways in which a range of actors are involved in different sites and issues of governance at home, in the region and the globe. It includes chapters on global governance, local policy-making, democracy, environmental governance, the Japanese financial system, corruption, the family and corporate governance. |
Contents
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Part 1 Sites of governance | 15 |
1 Global governance the G78 summit and Japan | 17 |
2 Japans role in emerging East Asian governance | 36 |
3 Governance democracy and the political economy of the Japanese state | 54 |
4 Local governance | 71 |
5 Governance globalization and the Japanese nancial system | 90 |
6 Koizumis robust policy | 111 |
7 Japan and global environmental governance | 133 |
8 Governance Asian migrants and the role of civil society | 152 |
9 Corruption and governance in Japan | 174 |
10 Whose problem? | 192 |
11 The political economy of Japanese corporate governance | 211 |
12 Governance through the family | 233 |
Index | 253 |
Part II Issues of governance | 131 |
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