Mikitaka Masuyama
Biographic Data
| ID | 4377562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikitaka Masuyama |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikitaka |
| FAMILY NAME | Masuyama |
| SIGNATURE | MASUYAMA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Measuring Judicial Independence Reconsidered
This article reconsiders how to judge judicial independence by using the Japanese judicature, one of the allegedly-most dependent judiciary branches. In their influential work, Ramseyer and Rasmusen (2003) argue that judges who once belonged to a leftist group take longer to reach a ‘moderately prestigious status’ under the long-term conservative rule of Japan. Their method does not, however, deal appropriately with the possibility of judges not …
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
The Survival of Prime Ministers and the House of Councillors
In this article, I try to illustrate how the power balance in the House of Councillors affects the survival of the Japanese prime minister (PM). My analysis relies on the statistical techniques of duration modeling, which can be used to explore the effects of independent variables on the occurrence and timing of an event of interest. By applying a discrete-time duration model on the data set of postwar Japanese PMs, I show that the probability of…
Japan
Japan
Traditionally, executive leadership has been considered weak and largely irrelevant in Japanese politics. The prime minister from 1955 to 1993 was selected from the dominant Liberal Democratic Party and was constrained by the strong internecine factional conflict in his party and, for much of the 1970s and early 1980s, a razor-thin parliamentary majority. Since 1993, coalition politics have become the norm. While most scholars suggest that coalit…
Bandwagon Competition or Duration Dependence? Comment on ‘Shaping Policy Diffusion’
Ito (2001) has made an interesting argument on policy making in Japanese local governments. However, his analysis is based on the estimates from the models that do not properly take into account the temporal dependence of regional law adoption. The purpose of this comment is to point out a troubling aspect of Ito's event history modeling, and to put the existence of potential problems caused by temporally dependent observations into perspective
The Diet 2001
Koizumi Junichiro's sweeping victory in the presidential primary of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) represents a palpable change in the national mood that may substantially affect the parliamentary conditions, although its impact on legislation is yet to be seen. In this essay, I briefly review the Diet in the past one year. In particular, the review deals with the legislative records in the 150–152 Diet sessions
Agenda Power in the Japanese House of Representatives
In this paper we provide evidence from Japan that bears on a general theory of agenda power in legislatures. By agenda power we mean the power to determine: (a) which bills are considered in the plenary session of the legislature and (b) restrictions on debate and amendment to these bills, when they are considered. While a substantial amount of work has focused on the second category of agenda power, including studies of special rules in the US H…
Is the Japanese diet consensual
The institutional design of the Japanese Diet is commonly believed to necessitate interparty accommodation and to make the legislative process more 'viscous' than it appears. This common belief about the Diet is challenged by examining the Constitution, the Diet Law, the House Rules, and parliamentary practices with special attention to agenda setting procedures. It is argued that the 'unanimity norm' is less binding than commonly recognised. By …
Agenda Power in the Japanese House of Representatives
In this paper we provide evidence from Japan that bears on a general theory of agenda power in legislatures. By agenda power we mean the power to determine: (a) which bills are considered in the plenary session of the legislature and (b) restrictions on debate and amendment to these bills, when they are considered. While a substantial amount of work has focused on the second category of agenda power, including studies of special rules in the US H…
Japan
Traditionally, executive leadership has been considered weak and largely irrelevant in Japanese politics. The prime minister from 1955 to 1993 was selected from the dominant Liberal Democratic Party and was constrained by the strong internecine factional conflict in his party and, for much of the 1970s and early 1980s, a razor-thin parliamentary majority. Since 1993, coalition politics have become the norm. While most scholars suggest that coalit…
Is the Japanese diet consensual
The institutional design of the Japanese Diet is commonly believed to necessitate interparty accommodation and to make the legislative process more 'viscous' than it appears. This common belief about the Diet is challenged by examining the Constitution, the Diet Law, the House Rules, and parliamentary practices with special attention to agenda setting procedures. It is argued that the 'unanimity norm' is less binding than commonly recognised. By …
Measuring Judicial Independence Reconsidered
This article reconsiders how to judge judicial independence by using the Japanese judicature, one of the allegedly-most dependent judiciary branches. In their influential work, Ramseyer and Rasmusen (2003) argue that judges who once belonged to a leftist group take longer to reach a ‘moderately prestigious status’ under the long-term conservative rule of Japan. Their method does not, however, deal appropriately with the possibility of judges not …
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Agenda Power in the Japanese House of Representatives
In this paper we provide evidence from Japan that bears on a general theory of agenda power in legislatures. By agenda power we mean the power to determine: (a) which bills are considered in the plenary session of the legislature and (b) restrictions on debate and amendment to these bills, when they are considered. While a substantial amount of work has focused on the second category of agenda power, including studies of special rules in the US H…
Is the Japanese diet consensual
The institutional design of the Japanese Diet is commonly believed to necessitate interparty accommodation and to make the legislative process more 'viscous' than it appears. This common belief about the Diet is challenged by examining the Constitution, the Diet Law, the House Rules, and parliamentary practices with special attention to agenda setting procedures. It is argued that the 'unanimity norm' is less binding than commonly recognised. By …
The Diet 2001
Koizumi Junichiro's sweeping victory in the presidential primary of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) represents a palpable change in the national mood that may substantially affect the parliamentary conditions, although its impact on legislation is yet to be seen. In this essay, I briefly review the Diet in the past one year. In particular, the review deals with the legislative records in the 150–152 Diet sessions
Bandwagon Competition or Duration Dependence? Comment on ‘Shaping Policy Diffusion’
Ito (2001) has made an interesting argument on policy making in Japanese local governments. However, his analysis is based on the estimates from the models that do not properly take into account the temporal dependence of regional law adoption. The purpose of this comment is to point out a troubling aspect of Ito's event history modeling, and to put the existence of potential problems caused by temporally dependent observations into perspective
Japan
Traditionally, executive leadership has been considered weak and largely irrelevant in Japanese politics. The prime minister from 1955 to 1993 was selected from the dominant Liberal Democratic Party and was constrained by the strong internecine factional conflict in his party and, for much of the 1970s and early 1980s, a razor-thin parliamentary majority. Since 1993, coalition politics have become the norm. While most scholars suggest that coalit…
The Survival of Prime Ministers and the House of Councillors
In this article, I try to illustrate how the power balance in the House of Councillors affects the survival of the Japanese prime minister (PM). My analysis relies on the statistical techniques of duration modeling, which can be used to explore the effects of independent variables on the occurrence and timing of an event of interest. By applying a discrete-time duration model on the data set of postwar Japanese PMs, I show that the probability of…
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Measuring Judicial Independence Reconsidered
This article reconsiders how to judge judicial independence by using the Japanese judicature, one of the allegedly-most dependent judiciary branches. In their influential work, Ramseyer and Rasmusen (2003) argue that judges who once belonged to a leftist group take longer to reach a ‘moderately prestigious status’ under the long-term conservative rule of Japan. Their method does not, however, deal appropriately with the possibility of judges not …
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