Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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GOVT 3463 - [Modern Japanese Politics]

(crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 3346 )(GB) (SBA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Next offered 2014-2015.

Staff.

In the 1980s, Japan was number one. The consolidation of its postwar democracy and rapid economic growth offered an alternative political economic model for emerging democracies. By the 1990s, the economic bubble burst and provided momentum for reforming the Japanese way of doing politics. Whereas the U.S. sought to learn from Japan’s success in the 1980s, we now seek to apply lessens from its failures to politically resolving our own economic crisis. This course examines the rise and fall of the “1955 System” and Japan’s ongoing struggle to reach a new political equilibrium through reforms aimed at producing a better democracy. These broad themes will be addressed through a close analysis of citizen engagement with the institutional framework in an increasingly global context.



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