Understanding Governance in Contemporary Japan : Transformation and the Regulatory State.

Front matter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Part I: Conceptualising the Japanese state and governance -- Introduction: transformation, governance and the state in the Japanese context -- The change of governance and regulation -- Part II: Evolving regulation and governance -- The evolving core executive in response to burgeoning ICT -- Regulatory state transformation with an unusual approach -- Piecemeal transformation: anti-monopoly regulation -- Breaking the egg shell -- Part III: The nature of Japanese governance with the transformation of the state -- Regulatory transformation and the core executive -- Governance in Japan: the implications of the research -- Appendix 1 List of Ministers of Post and Telecommunications (before January 2001) and Ministers of Internal Affairs and Communications (after January 2001) -- Appendix 2 The anti-monopoly case process -- References -- Index.

This book explores the transformation of Japan's state in response to the challenges of governance by focusing on the case studies of ICT regulation and antimonopoly regulation after the 1980s as an example of the new governance school in Japanese politics and beyond.

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