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Financial politics in contemporary Japan
In: Studies of the East Asian Institute Columbia University
Japan in 2011
In: Asian survey, Band 52, Heft 1, S. 15-27
ISSN: 1533-838X
Japan's government under the Democratic Party of Japan has limped along for another year, hampered by a divided legislature and an aging population reluctant to pay for the pensions and services it requires. The natural disasters of March 2011 were a tragic sideshow to the deep political problems that continue to plague Japan.
Japan in 2011: cataclysmic crisis and chronic deflation
In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Band 52, Heft 1, S. 15-27
ISSN: 0004-4687
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THE TWO FACES OF FEMINISM
In: The Yale review, Band 99, Heft 4, S. 49-54
ISSN: 1467-9736
Japan in 2010
In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 41-53
ISSN: 0004-4687
World Affairs Online
Japan in 2010
In: Asian survey, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 41-53
ISSN: 1533-838X
The Democratic Party of Japan's first full year in office was rocky, with open competition for party leadership sandwiched between diplomatic rows with the U.S. and China. If bumps in the road are inevitable for a new party in government, the Japanese public has made an investment in the long-term health of its democracy.
Conclusion
In: The Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility, S. 201-216
The Political Economy of Low Fertility
In: The Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility, S. 3-36
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Japanese Banks in Mexico: The Role of Government in Private Decisions
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 668-686
ISSN: 2052-465X
Japanese Banks in Mexico: The Role of Government in Private Decisions
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 668
ISSN: 0020-7020
The Comparative Politics of Gender
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Who gets what?: the new politics of insecurity
In: SSRC Anxieties of democracy
Responsible parties: saving democracy from itself
This book explores how popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics. In the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly; many places now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific parties rather than two dominant ones. Yet voters keep getting angrier. There is a steady erosion of trust in politicians, parties, and democratic institutions, culminating most recently in major populist victories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. The authors argue that devolving power to the grass roots is part of the problem. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making have made governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents' long-term interests. They argue that to restore confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party