Michio Muramatsu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michio Muramatsu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michio |
| FAMILY NAME | Muramatsu |
| SIGNATURE | MURAMATSU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyoto University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Local Power in the Japanese State
The Dominant Party and Social Coalitions in Japan
The Conservative Policy Line and the Development of Patterned Pluralism
Japanese political studies: Where are we? How did we get here? Where are we going
We offer a historically grounded analysis of major works in the study of Japanese politics with a focus on the period since the Second World War. The article traces an evolution from early assessments of Japanese democracy and modernization through the focus on the political economy of high growth to the current disciplinary-based emphasis on narrower but more empirically defensible research. We close with a call for future research to take great…
State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change
When Do Interest Groups Contact Bureaucrats Rather than Politicians? Evidence on Fire Alarms and Smoke Detectors from Japan
What determines whether interest groups choose to contact politicians or bureaucrats? Despite the importance of this question for policymaking, democracy, and some prominent principal-agent understandings of politics, it is relatively unexplored in the literature. We argue that government stability plays a major part in interest groups’ decisions. That is, central to interest groups’ decisions is their assessment of the likelihood that politician…
Local Government Development in Postwar Japan
Local Government Development in Post-war Japan
This book examines the evolution of intergovernmental relations in postwar Japan. These relations are shown to be both complex and dynamic, and the Japanese model is revealed as one in which aspects of both central control and local autonomy have co-existed with the balance shifting gradually over time towards the latter. The Japanese system has helped to maintain broad-based economic growth since it has at its core a strongly egalitarian fiscal …
CHAPTER 2. Central-Local Relations: Old and New Theories
Post-war Politics in Japan: Bureaucracy versus the Party/Parties in Power
The Japanese Bureaucracy and Economic Development: Structuring a Proactive Civil Service
For centuries, cross-national investigation has been a vital lens through which people have gained insights on their own societies. From Aristotle to Tocqueville, individuals have studied other societies with an eye toward improving their own. In the contemporary world, policymakers and scholars alike examine the experiences of various countries searching for learnable lessons. This search is particularly vigorous among statemakers involved in ac…
The Japanese civil service and economic development: Catalysts of Change
This volume analyses the way in which the Japanese civil service has contributed to Japan's successful economic growth and the lessons - both positive and negative - that experience may offer for other developing countries. It provides rich new information about the structures, functions, and policy-making activities of the Japanese civil service. Its emphasis is on the degree of competitiveness within the Japanese bureaucracy, the extent to whic…
Comparing Japanese and American Administrative Elites
Using evidence from surveys of top administrators, we examine differences between Japanese and American administrative elites. Our findings are far more complex than the reigning stereotypes of an apolitical, technocratic and elitist Japanese bureaucracy contrasted to a politically charged, conflict-oriented and social-reformist American federal executive. For example, senior Japanese bureaucrats take political considerations into account, compar…
Gendai seijigaku sosho. 20 Vols
Recent Administrative Developments in Japan
In Search of National Identity: The Politics and Policies of the Nakasone Administration
Center-Local Political Relations in Japan: A Lateral Competition Model
Bureaucrats and Politicians in Policymaking: The Case of Japan
This article extends the recent empirical work on the perceptions and role of bureaucrats and politicians in policymaking. The question of the relationship between politicians and bureaucrats and the role of each in policymaking is especially important in the case of Japan, because the prevalent models of Japanese politics and policymaking are those of the "bureaucracy dominant" or of a closely interwoven "ruling triad" of bureaucracy, big busine…
The Impact of Economic Growth Policies on Local Politics in Japan
TODAY, TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS are under challenge. What is their raison d'etre, their function as a unit of government? The twentieth century has been an age of centralization.1 However, it would seem that in many of the advanced countries local government is making a recovery. This paper is a report on the case of Japan, where local government is developing new functions to fulfill needs generated in a time of rapid urbanization. My purpose her…
Bureaucrats and Politicians in Policymaking: The Case of Japan
This article extends the recent empirical work on the perceptions and role of bureaucrats and politicians in policymaking. The question of the relationship between politicians and bureaucrats and the role of each in policymaking is especially important in the case of Japan, because the prevalent models of Japanese politics and policymaking are those of the "bureaucracy dominant" or of a closely interwoven "ruling triad" of bureaucracy, big busine…
Comparing Japanese and American Administrative Elites
Using evidence from surveys of top administrators, we examine differences between Japanese and American administrative elites. Our findings are far more complex than the reigning stereotypes of an apolitical, technocratic and elitist Japanese bureaucracy contrasted to a politically charged, conflict-oriented and social-reformist American federal executive. For example, senior Japanese bureaucrats take political considerations into account, compar…
In Search of National Identity: The Politics and Policies of the Nakasone Administration
When Do Interest Groups Contact Bureaucrats Rather than Politicians? Evidence on Fire Alarms and Smoke Detectors from Japan
What determines whether interest groups choose to contact politicians or bureaucrats? Despite the importance of this question for policymaking, democracy, and some prominent principal-agent understandings of politics, it is relatively unexplored in the literature. We argue that government stability plays a major part in interest groups’ decisions. That is, central to interest groups’ decisions is their assessment of the likelihood that politician…
Japanese political studies: Where are we? How did we get here? Where are we going
We offer a historically grounded analysis of major works in the study of Japanese politics with a focus on the period since the Second World War. The article traces an evolution from early assessments of Japanese democracy and modernization through the focus on the political economy of high growth to the current disciplinary-based emphasis on narrower but more empirically defensible research. We close with a call for future research to take great…
Gendai seijigaku sosho. 20 Vols
The Impact of Economic Growth Policies on Local Politics in Japan
TODAY, TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS are under challenge. What is their raison d'etre, their function as a unit of government? The twentieth century has been an age of centralization.1 However, it would seem that in many of the advanced countries local government is making a recovery. This paper is a report on the case of Japan, where local government is developing new functions to fulfill needs generated in a time of rapid urbanization. My purpose her…
The Impact of Economic Growth Policies on Local Politics in Japan
TODAY, TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS are under challenge. What is their raison d'etre, their function as a unit of government? The twentieth century has been an age of centralization.1 However, it would seem that in many of the advanced countries local government is making a recovery. This paper is a report on the case of Japan, where local government is developing new functions to fulfill needs generated in a time of rapid urbanization. My purpose her…
Bureaucrats and Politicians in Policymaking: The Case of Japan
This article extends the recent empirical work on the perceptions and role of bureaucrats and politicians in policymaking. The question of the relationship between politicians and bureaucrats and the role of each in policymaking is especially important in the case of Japan, because the prevalent models of Japanese politics and policymaking are those of the "bureaucracy dominant" or of a closely interwoven "ruling triad" of bureaucracy, big busine…
Center-Local Political Relations in Japan: A Lateral Competition Model
In Search of National Identity: The Politics and Policies of the Nakasone Administration
Recent Administrative Developments in Japan
Comparing Japanese and American Administrative Elites
Using evidence from surveys of top administrators, we examine differences between Japanese and American administrative elites. Our findings are far more complex than the reigning stereotypes of an apolitical, technocratic and elitist Japanese bureaucracy contrasted to a politically charged, conflict-oriented and social-reformist American federal executive. For example, senior Japanese bureaucrats take political considerations into account, compar…
Gendai seijigaku sosho. 20 Vols
The Japanese Bureaucracy and Economic Development: Structuring a Proactive Civil Service
For centuries, cross-national investigation has been a vital lens through which people have gained insights on their own societies. From Aristotle to Tocqueville, individuals have studied other societies with an eye toward improving their own. In the contemporary world, policymakers and scholars alike examine the experiences of various countries searching for learnable lessons. This search is particularly vigorous among statemakers involved in ac…
The Japanese civil service and economic development: Catalysts of Change
This volume analyses the way in which the Japanese civil service has contributed to Japan's successful economic growth and the lessons - both positive and negative - that experience may offer for other developing countries. It provides rich new information about the structures, functions, and policy-making activities of the Japanese civil service. Its emphasis is on the degree of competitiveness within the Japanese bureaucracy, the extent to whic…
CHAPTER 2. Central-Local Relations: Old and New Theories
Post-war Politics in Japan: Bureaucracy versus the Party/Parties in Power
Local Government Development in Post-war Japan
This book examines the evolution of intergovernmental relations in postwar Japan. These relations are shown to be both complex and dynamic, and the Japanese model is revealed as one in which aspects of both central control and local autonomy have co-existed with the balance shifting gradually over time towards the latter. The Japanese system has helped to maintain broad-based economic growth since it has at its core a strongly egalitarian fiscal …
Local Government Development in Postwar Japan
State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change
When Do Interest Groups Contact Bureaucrats Rather than Politicians? Evidence on Fire Alarms and Smoke Detectors from Japan
What determines whether interest groups choose to contact politicians or bureaucrats? Despite the importance of this question for policymaking, democracy, and some prominent principal-agent understandings of politics, it is relatively unexplored in the literature. We argue that government stability plays a major part in interest groups’ decisions. That is, central to interest groups’ decisions is their assessment of the likelihood that politician…
Japanese political studies: Where are we? How did we get here? Where are we going
We offer a historically grounded analysis of major works in the study of Japanese politics with a focus on the period since the Second World War. The article traces an evolution from early assessments of Japanese democracy and modernization through the focus on the political economy of high growth to the current disciplinary-based emphasis on narrower but more empirically defensible research. We close with a call for future research to take great…
The Conservative Policy Line and the Development of Patterned Pluralism
The Dominant Party and Social Coalitions in Japan
Local Power in the Japanese State
Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Japanese History and Culture (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Bureaucracy (6 works) · Law (6 works)