The Abe Administration and the Rise of the Prime Ministerial Executive Routledge Focus on Asia Series
Auteur : George Mulgan Aurelia
With the advent of the second Abe administration, the question of ?who leads? in Japan has become much easier to answer - the Prime Minister and his executive office, backed by a substantial policy support apparatus. This rise of the ?prime ministerial executive? is therefore one of the most important structural changes in Japan?s political system in the post-war period.
This book explains how the prime ministerial executive operates under the Abe administration and how it is contributing to Abe?s unprecedented policymaking authority. It analyses how reform of central government under Prime Ministers Nakasone, Hashimoto and Koizumi has produced the necessary institutional innovations to allow the prime minister to assert a more authoritative policy leadership, turning Japan?s traditional, decentralised and bottom-up politics on its head. Comparing the Westminster and presidential systems of governance and applying them to Japan?s contemporary politics, the book shows that whilst elements of both can be found, neither captures the essence of the transformation involved in the rise of the prime ministerial executive.
Providing a thorough analysis of power in Japanese politics, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese Politics, Comparative Politics and Asian Studies.
1. Introduction 2. The Rise of the Prime Ministerial Executive and the Process of Administrative Reform 3. Reinforcing the Power of the Prime Ministerial Executive under the Second Abe 4. Westminster or Presidential? 5. Conclusion
Aurelia George Mulgan is Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. Her publications include Ozawa Ichirō and Japanese Politics: Old Versus New (Routledge, 2014).
Date de parution : 01-2019
13.8x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 07-2017
13.8x21.6 cm
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Mots-clés :
Prime Ministerial Executive; Japan; Japanese politics; Shinzō Abe; Japanese Diet; governmment; Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretaries; Aurelia George Mulgan; Chief Cabinet Secretaries; Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretaries; Zoku Giin; Abe Administration; Parliamentary Cabinet System; Hashimoto’s Administrative Reform; Japan’s Political System; Abe Administration’s Policy; Prime Minister’s Official Residence; Parliamentary Cabinet Government; Industrial Competitiveness Council; Presidential Style System; LDP; Prime Ministerial Rule; Koizumi Administrations; Central Government Reform; Japan’s Economic Revitalisation; Prime Minister Nakasone Yasuhiro; Single Member Districts; LDP Politician; Westminster Style System; Policy Issues; People’s Life Party