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A comparison of politics and administration in Japan and Germany at first seems to be a comparison between highly similar industrialized states. This volume provides the first in-depth study about the two countries - the differences in their administrative and political party systems, the differences in the international environment which they faced after the World War Two and during the Cold War.
The orientation towards innovating the public sector upon existings forms of administration is analysed in chapters on post-war politics; administrative reforms ; industrial policies; labour policies; and political intervention and market competition.
List of contents
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Comparative Research on the State and Administration in Germany and Japan: The Framework -- I Macrostructure and Macropolitics -- Post-war Politics in Japan: Bureaucracy versus the Party/Parties in Power -- From State of Authority to Network State: The German State in Developmental Perspective -- Administrative Reform in Japan: Semi-autonomous Bureaucracy under the Pressure toward a Small Government -- Modernization of the Public Sector and Public Administration in the Federal Republic of Germany - (Mostly) A Story of Fragmented Incrementalism -- II Policy Arenas and Networks - A Comparative Policy Approach -- Social Policy in Japan: Building a Welfare State in a Conservative One Dominant Party System -- State and Society in German Social Policy: "Path-dependent" Responses to New Challenges -- Financing the Japanese Industries: Industrial Policies of The Financial Ministry and Financial Policies of The Industrial Ministry -- Industrial Policy in Germany: Old Issues and New Challenges -- Cooptation or New Possibility? Japanese Labor Politics in the Era of Neo-Conservatism -- Concerted Cooperation and Immobilism: Labour Policy in Germany and the Regulation of Early Exit -- Three Contentious Issues in the Political Process of Telecommunications Liberalization in Japan: Neglect of Infrastructural Problems? -- III The Governance Structure -- Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy: Political Intervention and Market Competition in the Distribution System -- Future Perspectives of State and Administration in Japan and Germany -- About the Contributors -- Backmatter
