The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless NationA full-scale examination of the inner workings of Japan's political and industrial system. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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... groups A popular theory about how government policies develop holds that ' interest groups ' or ' pressure groups ' manage to ' capture ' , as it were , the segment of the public service whose co - operation they need . One Japanese group ...
... groups A popular theory about how government policies develop holds that ' interest groups ' or ' pressure groups ' manage to ' capture ' , as it were , the segment of the public service whose co - operation they need . One Japanese group ...
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... groups , functioning the way Westerners expect pressure groups to function , should do this in an extreme fashion . The practitioners of medicine have taken over the very area of government that ought to be controlling them in order to ...
... groups , functioning the way Westerners expect pressure groups to function , should do this in an extreme fashion . The practitioners of medicine have taken over the very area of government that ought to be controlling them in order to ...
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... groups they must control , and show signs of identifica- tion with the groups ' goals . That is why , for instance , the Agriculture Ministry remains an immovable obstacle to the liberalisation of food imports something that other ...
... groups they must control , and show signs of identifica- tion with the groups ' goals . That is why , for instance , the Agriculture Ministry remains an immovable obstacle to the liberalisation of food imports something that other ...
Contents
The Elusive State | 25 |
An Inescapable Embrace | 50 |
Servants of the System | 82 |
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