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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Governance democracy and the political economy | 54 |
the role of referenda and the rise | 71 |
Governance globalization and the Japanese financial | 90 |
governance the Japanese | 111 |
Japan and global environmental governance | 133 |
Governance Asian migrants and the role of civil society | 152 |
Corruption and governance in Japan | 174 |
Whose problem? Japans homeless people as an issue | 192 |
The political economy of Japanese corporate | 211 |
the political function | 233 |
Index | 253 |
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