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1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Political Transformation of Japan and Europe

Research Project

Project/Area Number 08044029
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
SectionJoint Research
Research Field Politics
Research InstitutionKYOTO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

OTAKE Hideo  Kyoto Univ., Law, Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (40083563)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KUME Ikuo  Kobe Univ., Law, Prof., 法学部, 教授 (30195523)
TANAKA Akihiko  Tokyo Univ., Oriental Inst., Asso Prof, 東洋文化研究所, 助教授 (30163497)
IOKIBE Makoto  Kobe Univ, .Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (10033747)
SHINKAWA Toshimitsu  Hokkaido Univ., Law, Prof., 法学部, 教授 (30216212)
KABASHIMA Ikyo  Tokyo Univ., Law, Professor, 法学研究科, 教授 (80134196)
Project Period (FY) 1996 – 1998
KeywordsParty Realigument / Neo libovalism / regional Integration / Japanese politics / West European Politics / East Asia politics / metheddogy of comparstie political research / political economy
Research Abstract

This research project examined very rapid and drastic transformations in Japanese and European politics, focusing upon the three aspects : (1) party realignment observed in changing voters' party supports and shifting coalition buildings among the political parties, (2) the restructuring of political economy, particularly in the area of political intervention into the economic activities as well as the restructuring of the labor market and the welfare institutions, and (3) progresses and stagnations in regional integration in Europe and East Asia.
The problems are complex and varied among various regions and countires, and the individual participants in this project have explored these varieties in his/her papers. The following generalizations, however, have drawn from this research project. Golobalization mostly due to the revolutions of information technologies, the collapse of the Soviet block, and the comeback of American military and economic hegemonies In the 1990s resulted in the further "re introduction" of market economy in Japan and tire western European nations. This has inevitably involved party realingnent in each county, the restructuring of the government-society relations and progressive regional integration. On the other hand, these general trends have been counterbalanced by the differences between Japan and Europe as well as those among the individual nation states. Those differences are mostly due to histrical legacies built in as the institutional arrangements such as the characteristics of the governmental and the market structure in each nations.

  • Research Products

    (13 results)

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All Publications (13 results)

  • [Publications] Toshimitsu Shinkawa, Roland Sturm: "The Survival and Adaptation of the Welfare State in the Era of Globalisation : Japan and Germany" ECPR -JPSA Joint Project Ocassional Paper. Vol.1. 1-54 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Ikuo Kume: "Promise that Failed? : Collective Identity and Employment Policy Development in Japan and Sweden" ECPR -JPSA Joint Project Ocassional Paper. Vol.2. 1-45 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Hideo Otake: "From "Participatory Democracy" to "Freedom of Choice" the Transition in France and Japan, 1968-1983" ECPR -JPSA Joint Project Occassional Paper. Vol.3. 1-26 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Hideo Otake: "Development in the Japanese Polotical Economy since the mid-1980s : The Second Attempt of Neoliberal Reforms" Government and Opposition. Vol.30 No.2. 1-35 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Hideo Otake: "Political Mistrust and Party Dealignment in Japan" 単行本 Susan Pharr and Robert Putnam eds., What's Troubling the Trilateral Democracies Princeton Univ.Press. 364-391 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 五百旗頭 眞 編: "地域統合の日欧比較(『レヴァイアサン・特集』)" 木鐸社, 160 (2000)

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  • [Publications] 蒲島 郁夫: "政党の変容:日欧比較(『レヴァイアサン・特集』)" 木鐸社, 175 (2000)

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  • [Publications] Michael Laver and Ikuo Kabashima eds.: "1.The Instability of Party Identification among Eligible Japanese Voters : A Seven-wave Panel Study, 1993-6 / Ikuo Kabashima and Yoshito Ishio 2.Japanese Political Realignment in Perspective : Change or Restoration? / Peter Mair and Tomokazu Sakano ; 3.The Political Impact of Eletoral System Change in Japan and New Zealand, 1996 / Michael Gallagher ; 4.Theories of Government Formation and the 1996 General Election in Japan / Junko Kato and Michael Laer ; 5.Party Policy and Cabinet Portfolios in Japan, 1996 Junko Kato and Michael Laver" Party Politics, Special Issue : Political Change and the 1996 General Election in Japan. Volume.4. (1998)

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  • [Publications] Toshimitsu Shinkawa and Roland Sturm: "The Survival and Adaptation of the Welfare State in the Era of Globalisation : The Case of Pension Reform in Japan and Germany" ECPR-JPSA Occassional Paper. Number 1. (1999)

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  • [Publications] Ikuo Kume: "Promise that Failed? : Collective Identity and Employment Policy in Japan and Sweden" ECPR-JPSA Occassional Paper. Number 2. (1999)

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  • [Publications] Hideo Otake: "From 'Participatory Democracy' to'Freedom of Choice' : Transition in France and Japan, 1968-1983" ECPR-JPSA Occassional Paper. Number 3. (1999)

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  • [Publications] Hideo Otake: "Development in the Japanese Political Economy since the mid-1980s : The Second Attempt of neoliberal Reforms and its Aftermath, Government and Opposition" (1999)

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  • [Publications] Richard Higgott eds.: "1.Richard Higgott The International Relations of the Economic Crisis : Implications for Regionalism in Asia" ; 2.Masayuki Tadokoro / Regional Monetary Cooperation inn Europe and Asia : European Experiences and Asian Future ; 3.Mie Oba and Susumu Yamakage / In Search for Regional Identity : A Tale of Two LiminalNations in Asia and the Pacific ; 4.Yoko Iwama / European and Asian Security Regionalism Comapared ; 5.Akihiko Tanaka / China in Asian Regional Integration" Pacific Affairs, Special Issue : The Development of Regional Integration in Europe and East Asia. (1999)

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Published: 1999-12-08  

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