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Democratizing policy communities? The politics of decentralization in France and Japan.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Democratizing policy communities? The politics of decentralization in France and Japan.
Author:	Nakano, Koichi.
Description:	256 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Ezra N. Suleiman.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-05, Section: A, page: 1833.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-05A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3089878
ISBN:	0496376039

Democratizing policy communities? The politics of decentralization in France and Japan.
Nakano, Koichi.

Democratizing policy communities? The politics of decentralization in France and Japan. [electronic resource] - 256 p.

Adviser: Ezra N. Suleiman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2003.

Changes in party politics make a difference in policy-making in several ways. First, alternations in power bring in new policy actors. Second, even when the turnover of policy actors is limited, change in party politics puts pressure on them to modify their policy stance. Third, when political parties that came to power are well-prepared both ideationally and institutionally to impose their reform agenda, they may bypass and alter the existing policy community altogether. Fourth, even when the new governing parties are in a weaker position for lack of resources, they may nevertheless define the perimeters within which policy communities operate.

ISBN: 0496376039Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

Democratizing policy communities? The politics of decentralization in France and Japan.
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520 # $a Changes in party politics make a difference in policy-making in several ways. First, alternations in power bring in new policy actors. Second, even when the turnover of policy actors is limited, change in party politics puts pressure on them to modify their policy stance. Third, when political parties that came to power are well-prepared both ideationally and institutionally to impose their reform agenda, they may bypass and alter the existing policy community altogether. Fourth, even when the new governing parties are in a weaker position for lack of resources, they may nevertheless define the perimeters within which policy communities operate.
520 # $a Following the advent of the Socialist Party to power in 1981 for the first time in the Fifth Republic, France embarked on a major reform to remedy its centralized polity. Similarly, after the 38-year continuous one-party rule of the Liberal Democratic Party came to an end in 1993, reformist governments pursued an important program of decentralization in a new era of coalition politics in Japan. Despite their comparable centralist traditions and decentralist ambitions, reforms were more successful in France than in Japan. In contrast to such dominant perspectives in public policy analysis as the policy community thesis that neglect the influence of change in party politics, we argue that political parties and their interactions account for these divergent outcomes.
520 # $a The historical alternations in power in France and Japan brought in new governments that explicitly aimed at a radical overhaul of the existing, entrenched policy communities. Our research findings showed that, while the policy community theory retained considerable explanatory power, party political change had a significant impact on policy-making. Party politicians were able to leave their mark on the policy process as well as on the policy outputs to the extent to which their political parties had ideational and institutional resources at their disposal.
520 # $a This dissertation presents a comparative study of decentralization in France and Japan, as well as temporal comparison within each of the two countries, with a focus on the impact of party political change on policy-making.
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