Contested Governance in Japan: Sites and Issues

by Hook,Glenn D.; Hook,Glenn D.

• ISBN13: 9780415364980
• ISBN10: 0415364981
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-06-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book 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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	xi
Preface and acknowledgements	xv
Note on the text	xvii
List of abbreviations	xix
Glossary	xxiii
Introduction Contested governance in Japan: modes, sites and issues	1	(14)
GLENN D. HOOK
PART I Sites of governance	15	(116)
1 Global governance, the G7/8 summit and Japan	17	(19)
HUGO DOBSON
2 Japan's role in emerging East Asian governance: regional and national implications	36	(18)
GLENN D. HOOK
3 Governance, democracy and the political economy of the Japanese state	54	(17)
J.A.A. STOCKWIN
4 Local governance: the role of referenda and the rise of independent governors	71	(19)
LAM PENG ER
5 Governance, globalization and the Japanese financial system: resistance or restructuring?	90	(21)
PHILIP G. CERNY
6 Koizumi's 'robust policy': governance, the Japanese welfare employment regime and comparative gender studies	111	(22)
OSAWA MARI
PART II Issues of governance	131	(122)
7 Japan and global environmental governance	133	(19)
MIRANDA A. SCHREURS
8 Governance, Asian migrants and the role of civil society	152	(22)
HATSUSE RYUHEI
9 Corruption and governance in Japan	174	(18)
J. BABB
10 Whose problem? Japan's homeless people as an issue of local and central governance	192	(19)
TOM GILL
11 The political economy of Japanese 'corporate governance': a metaphor for capitalist rationalization	211	(22)
HASEGAWA HARUKIYO
12 Governance through the family: the political function of the domestic in Japan	233	(20)
TAKEDA HIROKO
Index	253