| Project/Area Number |
17330032
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
KUME Ikuo Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Professor (30195523)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KONO Masaru Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Professor (70306489)
MURAMATSU Michio Gakushuin University, Faculty of Law, Professor (80025147)
NONAKA Naoto Gakushuin University, Faculty of Law, Professor (90264697)
SHINADA Yutaka Kobe University, Graduate School of Law, Professor (10226136)
TATEBAYASHI Masahiko Doshisha University, Faculty of Lasw, Professor (30288790)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥13,370,000 (Direct Cost: ¥12,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥4,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥5,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,000,000)
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| Keywords | Policy Networks / politicians / bureaucrats / Interest Groups / survey data / Japanese Politics |
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| Research Abstract |
Analyzing the three waves of survey data conducted over three decades with politicians, bureaucrats, and interest group leaders, we have published a book edited by Ikuo Kume and Michio Muramatsu, who has been in charge of these surveys,. This book tried to make sensed the structural change in Japanese politics over three decades. Having achieved this task, we moved on to the next step, that is causal inquiries of this transformation. In due course, we combined our survey data analysis with mass survey data analysis and social-economic data analysis as well as detailed case studies. In order to integrate these various analyses conducted by the project members, we had an interim international workshop in Kobe(March 2006). Then we organized an international conference Modeling Power Relationships in Japanese Democracy with the Center for Study of Democratic Institutions at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, inviting political scientists studying Japanese politics comparatively, Professors T.J.Pempel, Ellis Krauss, Megumi Naoi and others. The members of this project presented their papers and had intensive discussion with various participants.
Our general findings are 1) Japanese policy making process, which used to be fairly fragmented and decentralized, has become substantially centralized at the top leader level, and 2) this change is consistent with changes in the state-societal relations being analyzed by the mass survey analysis and the interest group studies. We are now preparing to submit these analyses to the international journals.
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