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Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists
Japanese and Chinese immigrants in the United States have traditionally been characterized as hard workers who are hesitant to involve themselves in labor disputes or radical activism. How then does one explain the labor and Communist organizations in the Asian immigrant communities that existed from coast to coast between 1919 and 1933? Their organizers and members have been, until now, largely absent from the history of the American Communist movement. Here, Josephine Fowler brings us the first in-depth account of Japanese and Chinese immigrant radicalism inside the United States and across the Pacific.
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After camp
This book illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. A vast and ever-growing literature exists, first on the entry and settlement of Japanese immigrants in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, then on the experience of the immigrants and their American-born children during World War II. Yet the essential question, \"What happened afterwards?\" remains all but unanswered in historical literature. Excluded from the wartime economic boom and scarred psychologically by their wartime ordeal, the former camp inmates struggled to remake their lives in the years that followed. This volume consists of a series of case studies that shed light on various developments relating to Japanese Americans in the aftermath of their wartime confinement, including resettlement nationwide, the mental and physical readjustment of the former inmates, and their political engagement, most notably in concert with other racialized and ethnic minority groups.
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THE PRESIDENTIALIZATION OF JAPAN’S LDP POLITICS
This article examines the elevated status of the prime minister in the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government through the lens of Poguntke and Webb’s presidentialization thesis. There are two distinctive characteristics in the Japanese case. First, its presidentialization does not occur as the evolution of the Westminster model and instead follows a unique path. Second, the reinforced position of the Japanese premiership is in essence the product of institutional reforms that the Japanese political class has enacted in the last two decades for the renewal of national strategies, which in turn means that the Japanese presidentialization is taking place by design at its core. Furthermore, the latter fact implies its potential risks—most importantly, the progress of presidentialization under the LDP’s continued dominance can undermine check-and-balance functions in Japanese democracy to a hazardous degree.
Este artículo examina el elevado estatus del primer ministro en el gobierno del Partido Liberal Democrático (PLD) a través de la tesis de presidencialización de Poguntke y Webb. Hay dos características distintivas en el caso japonés. Primero, su presidencialización no ocurre como la evolución del modelo de Westminster y, en cambio, sigue un camino único. En segundo lugar, la posición reforzada de la presidencia japonesa es, en esencia, el producto de las reformas institucionales que la clase política japonesa ha promulgado en las últimas dos décadas para la renovación de las estrategias nacionales, lo que a su vez significa que la presidencialización japonesa se lleva a cabo desde el principio. Además, el último hecho implica sus riesgos potenciales; lo más importante es que el progreso de la presidencialización bajo el dominio continuo del PLD puede socavar las funciones de control y equilibrio en la democracia japonesa en un grado peligroso.
本文基于Poguntke和Webb的总统化理论分析了日本首相在自民党(LDP) 政府中地位的提升。文中日本案例有两个明显的特点。首先, 日本的总统化并不是随着西敏模式的演变而产生, 而是遵循了一条独特的道路。其次, 日本首相地位的加强实质上是日本政治阶级在过去二十年间为国家政策复兴而实行制度改革的结果。这反过来意味着日本的总统化是有计划发生的。此外, 后一个事实意味着其潜在的风险——最重要的是, 在自 民党持续主导下的总统化进程可能会在一定程度上破坏日本民主的制衡作用。
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International impact of colonial rule in Korea, 1910-1945
\"What can today's world learn from the echoes of Korea's colonial experience?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Geographically Targeted Spending in Mixed-Member Majoritarian Electoral Systems
Can governments elected under mixed-member majoritarian (mmm) electoral systems use geographically targeted spending to increase their chances of staying in office, and if so, how? Although twenty-eight countries use mmm electoral systems, scant research has addressed this question. The authors explain how mmm’s combination of electoral systems in two unlinked tiers creates a distinct strategic environment in which a large party and a small party can trade votes in one tier for votes in the other tier in a way that increases the number of seats won by both. They then explain how governing parties dependent on vote trading can use geographically targeted spending to cement it. These propositions are tested using original data from Japan (2003–2013) and Mexico (2012–2016). In both cases, municipalities in which the supporters of governing parties split their ballots as instructed were found to have received more money after elections. The findings have broad implications for research on mmm electoral systems, distributive politics, and the politics of Japan and Mexico.
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Understanding governance in contemporary Japan
This book explores the transformation of the Japanese state in response to the challenges of governance by focusing on two case studies: ICT regulation and antimonopoly regulation after the 1980s, which experienced a disjuncture and significant transformation within the period with approaches embracing competition. In so doing, it reveals the transformation of the state and governance in a Japanese context and presents itself as an example of the new governance school addressing the state, its transformation, and the governance of the political arena in Japanese politics and beyond, setting out a challenge to the established body of pluralist and rational choice literature in Japanese politics. With its comprehensive review and analysis of the theory and development of Japan’s contemporary politics, this book is suitable as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate courses as well as a guidebook for practitioners engaging in policies and businesses relating to Japan.
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