Japanese Prefectures and Policymaking

by Steven R. Reed

In this book, Steven R. Reed argues that studying only central administrations and national-level politics yields a picture of greater rigidity than actually exists in modern governments. There is not a simple dichotomy between centralization and local autonomy: many different relationships between levels of government are possible. Reed illustrates his point in nine detailed case studies in which he analyzes the governments of three of Japan's forty-seven...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822984970
• ISBN13: 9780822984979
• Release Date: July 1986
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"