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Party Politics and Decentralization in Japan and France When the Opposition Governs
By Koichi Nakano
Copyright 2010
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Decentralization is a curious policy for a central government to pursue. If politics is essentially about the struggle for power, why would anyone want to give away the power that one struggled for and won? This book argues that it is precisely party competition in search of power that propels decentralization.
Koichi Nakano develops his core argument through in-depth, qualitative research... Read more
1. Decentralization as an "Oppositional" Policy 2. Centralist Immobilism under Conservative Rule 3. Preparing the Alternative in Opposition 4. France: Alternation in Power 5. Japan: Ruling in Coalition 6. When the Opposition Governs
Biography
Koichi Nakano, Ph.D. (Princeton) is Associate Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University in Japan.
"This highly recommended book offers specific case studies but the implications of the approach and explanation go well beyond the importance for the mere cases of Japan and France in the dynamics of decentralization politics." - Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Pacific Affairs: Volume 84, No. 4 – December 2011
