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Who Governs Japan? Politicians and Bureaucrats in the Policy‐making Processes

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The long‐running debate about who governs Japan has been given a new twist by ‘rat‐choicers’ who argue that Japan has been governed for the last thirty years or more neither by bureaucrats nor by a ‘conservative coalition’ of bureaucrats, politicians and businessmen but by the Liberal Democratic Party alone. This article examines their arguments and sets them in the context of other competing and conflicting explanations. It is argued that more relevant and researchable questions are what is governed and how, an approach calling for a more nuanced analysis of policy making in order to observe the impact on different policies and policy‐processes of the role of the state and its institutional structures and their embedded ‘collective identities’.

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  • Maurice Wright, 1999. "Who Governs Japan? Politicians and Bureaucrats in the Policy‐making Processes," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 47(5), pages 939-954, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:polstu:v:47:y:1999:i:5:p:939-954
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.00240
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