17.537 / 17.538 Politics and Policy in Contemporary Japan, Spring 2003
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Author(s)
Samuels, Richard J.
Alternative Title
Politics and Policy in Contemporary Japan
Date Issued
June 2003
Abstract
This subject is designed for upper level undergraduates and graduate students as an introduction to politics and the policy process in modern Japan. The semester is divided into two parts. After a two-week general introduction to Japan and to the dominant approaches to the study of Japanese history, politics and society, we will begin exploring five aspects of Japanese politics: (1) Party Politics (2) Electoral Politics (3) Interest Group Politics and (4) Bureaucratic Politics. The second part of the semester focuses on public policy, divided into seven major policy areas: (1) Social Policy (2) Foreign Policy (3) Defence Policy (4) Energy Policy (5) Science and Technology Policy (6) Industrial Policy and (7) Trade Policy. We will try to understand the ways in which the actors and institutions identified in the first part of the semester affect the policy process across a variety of issue areas.
Subjects
Japan
History
Politics
Society
Party Politics
Electoral Politics
Interest Group Politics
Bureaucratic Politics
Social Policy
Foreign Policy
Defense Policy
Energy Policy
Science and Technology Policy
Industrial Policy
Trade Policy
17.537
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MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
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