| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
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Routledge revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; References; 1. National Unity and Diversity; Defining Centralisation and Local Autonomy; The Institutions between Centre and Locality; Representative Rules; Territorial Rules; Financial Rules; Personnel and Recruitment Rules; Functional Rules; Political Rules; Explaining Japanese Features; Institutional Changes; Concluding Comment; Notes; References; 2. The Making of Local Government; The Meiji Local Government System |
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The General Mobilisation of 1910-1945The Occupation Reforms, 1945-52; The Period of High Economic Growth, 1952-1973; The Emergence of the Japanese Welfare State; Fiscal Control; Participatory Autonomy; Notes; References; 3. Increased State Activity and Administrative Integration; National Spending Priorities; Choka Futan (Overburdening); The Case of Day-Care Centres; Law for the Appropriate Implementation of National Treasury Shares and Subsidies; Jizen Kyogi (Preliminary Consultation) and Naiji (Preliminary Approval); Notes; References; 4. Settsu City and its Litigation Challenge |
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Urbanisation and Socioeconomic TrendsUrbanisation and Local Politics; Mayoral Leadership and Local Finance; Financial Innovations; Municipal Budget Politics; Settsu City's Challenge against the Central Government; Notes; References; 5. Central-Local Government Interaction and its Nature; Mutual Dependency and the Institutional Environment; Mayoral Leadership; Ad Hoc Manipulation; Indirect Access to the Centre; Osaka Prefecture as an Intermediate Agency; Prefectural Discretion; Constraints upon Prefectural Discretion; Loan Permission and Discretion |
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Participatory Autonomy at the Multi-Level SystemCentral Government's Reaction; Notes; References; 6. Comparative Perspective: Conclusion; Spectrum of Administrative Integration; Cross-national Inquiry; State and Society; Central and Local Governments; Notes; References; Appendices; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
First published in 1999, this book offers a new study of local government in Japan. There is an enormous amount of information about Japanese local government that has not yet appeared in English. With the author's local familiarity, elected local officials and local residents have been extraordinarily open and forthcoming. This allows a rethinking of the topic by mobilising a multitude of solid factual material. Japan has dealt with the dramatically increased public sector, but has done so in a setting of institutional centralisation. How has central authority sought to find ways of managing the continuous expansion of state activities? How have local authorities responded to central government's initiative in integrating state administration? The answers the book gives to these questions present an alternative understanding of Japanese local government |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Yasuo Takao |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Central-local government relations -- Japan
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Local government -- Japan -- History
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Local government -- Social aspects -- Japan
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Central-local government relations
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Local government
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Local government -- Social aspects
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069556
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429445897 |
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042944589X |
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9780429820069 |
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0429820062 |
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9780429820052 |
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0429820054 |
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9780429820076 |
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0429820070 |
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