MINORU NAKANO

• List of Tables - List of Figures - Preface - Foreword to the English Edition - Conventions - Introduction - PART 1: POLICY DECISIONS JAPANESE-STYLE - The Political Process of Welfare Policy Formation: The 1985 Public Pensions System Reform - Fundamental Patterns in Japanese Politics - PART 2: THE ELECTORAL AND POLICY-MAKING PROCESSES - Elections and Policy-Making - PART 3: LOCAL POLITICS AND POLICY DECISIONS - Public Decision Making and the Expression and Mediation of Regional Interests - Technocracy and Political Friction in the Big City: The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Relocation Decision-Making Process - Notes - Index

MINORU NAKANO

• List of Tables - List of Figures - Preface - Foreword to the English Edition - Conventions - Introduction - PART 1: POLICY DECISIONS JAPANESE-STYLE - The Political Process of Welfare Policy Formation: The 1985 Public Pensions System Reform - Fundamental Patterns in Japanese Politics - PART 2: THE ELECTORAL AND POLICY-MAKING PROCESSES - Elections and Policy-Making - PART 3: LOCAL POLITICS AND POLICY DECISIONS - Public Decision Making and the Expression and Mediation of Regional Interests - Technocracy and Political Friction in the Big City: The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Relocation Decision-Making Process - Notes - Index

MINORU NAKANO

• List of Tables - List of Figures - Preface - Foreword to the English Edition - Conventions - Introduction - PART 1: POLICY DECISIONS JAPANESE-STYLE - The Political Process of Welfare Policy Formation: The 1985 Public Pensions System Reform - Fundamental Patterns in Japanese Politics - PART 2: THE ELECTORAL AND POLICY-MAKING PROCESSES - Elections and Policy-Making - PART 3: LOCAL POLITICS AND POLICY DECISIONS - Public Decision Making and the Expression and Mediation of Regional Interests - Technocracy and Political Friction in the Big City: The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Relocation Decision-Making Process - Notes - Index