The Japanese Civil Service and Economic Development Catalysts of Change
by Kim, Hyung-Ki; Muramatsu, Michio; Pempel, T. J.; Yamamura, KozoFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1995-12-14
Publisher(s): Clarendon Press
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Summary
This volume analyzes how the Japanese civil service has contributed to Japan's phenomenally successful economic growth, and provides much new information about its structure, function, and policymaking activities. It emphasizes the degree of competitiveness within the Japanese bureaucracy; the extent to which political authority, rather than formal power, is wielded; and the way in which government policy has stimulated market forces. Written by experts in the field, this work will be invaluable to economists and policymakers interested in the Japanese system and in models for developing and transitional economies.
Table of Contents
| List of Figures | |
| List of Tables | |
| List of Contributors | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Japanese Bureaucracy and Economic Development: Structuring a Proactive Civil Service | p. 19 |
| Japan's Postwar Civil Service: The Legal Framework | p. 77 |
| The Role of Government in Japan's 'Catch-up' Industrialization: A Neoinstitutionalist Perspective | p. 102 |
| The Structure of Bureaucractic Rationality and Economic Development in Japan | p. 135 |
| The Evolution of the Civil Service before World War II | p. 174 |
| Government-Business Relations and Competitiveness: The Japanese Case | p. 188 |
| Japanese Bureaucrats at Retirement: The Mobility of Human Resources from Central Government to Public Corporations | p. 213 |
| Administrative Reform | p. 235 |
| The Role of the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program in Postwar Japanese Economic Growth | p. 261 |
| Financing Japanese Industry: The Interplay between the Financial and Industrial Bureaucracies | p. 288 |
| Institutionalizing the Active Labor Market Policy in Japan: A Comparative View | p. 311 |
| Institutionalizing the Local System: The Ministry of Home Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations in Japan | p. 337 |
| Local Governments and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises | p. 367 |
| Policies for Small Business in Japan | p. 399 |
| Developmental Bureaucracy in Comparative Perspective: The Evolution of the Korean Civil Service | p. 431 |
| The Japanese Bureaucracy and Economic Development: Are There Lessons for Russia and the Reforming Socialist Economies? | p. 459 |
| The Japanese Civil Service and Economic Development in Comparative Perspective | p. 484 |
| The Japanese Civil Service and Economic Development: Lessons for Policymakers from Other Countries | p. 506 |
| Index | p. 541 |
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