LEADER 02609nam 2200349 450 001 9910476799503321 005 20230512040749.0 035 $a(CKB)5470000000566551 035 $a(NjHacI)995470000000566551 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000000566551 100 $a20230512d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aContested Governance in Japan /$fGlenn D. Hook 210 1$a[Place of publication not identified] :$cTaylor & Francis,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a1-134-21769-2 327 $aIntroduction - Contested Governance in Japan: Modes, sites and issues -- Part 1 Sites of Governance -- 1. Global Governance, the G7/8 Summit and Japan -- 2. Japan's Role in Emerging East Asian Governance: Regional and national implications -- 3. Governance, Democracy and the Political Economy of the Japanese State -- 4. Local Governance: The role of referenda and the rise of independent governors -- 5. Governance, Globalization and the Japanese Financial System: Resistance or restructuring? -- 6. Koizumi's 'Robust Policy': Governance, the Japanese welfare employment regime and comparative gender studies -- Part 2 Issues of Governance -- 7. Japan and Global Environmental Governance -- 8. Governance, Asian Migrants and the role of Civil Society -- 9. Corruption and Governance in Japan -- 10. Whose Problem? Japan's homeless people as an issue of local and central governance -- 11. The Political Economy of Japanese 'Corporate Governance': A metaphor for capitalist rationalization -- 12. Governance though the Family: The political function of the domestic in Japan. 330 $aContested 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. 606 $aInternational relations 615 0$aInternational relations. 676 $a327 700 $aHook$b Glenn D.$0124196 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910476799503321 996 $aContested governance in Japan$92017039 997 $aUNINA