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Politics and Policy in Contemporary Japan

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States17.537
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2009English
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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: party politics, electoral politics, interest group politics, bureaucratic politics, and policy, which will be broken…

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