| Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy: Why Japan Can't Reform 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Na, Na (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403916551 ISBN-13: 9781403916556 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2003 Annotation: This book reveals how the Japanese national ministries can exploit their Special Status Corporations (public corporations, supported primarily with public funding from a state-run banking agency) in order to intensify their administrative power over industries and local governments and to perpetuate the interests of elite civil servants by facilitating the migration to post-retirement positions in the private sector. The book explains why the existence of these organizations inhibits the Prime Ministers efforts to implement structural reforms. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - General - Business & Economics | Economics - Comparative - Business & Economics | International - Economics |
| Dewey: 338.095 |
| LCCN: 2003040530 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.42" W x 9.18" (0.69 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book reveals how the Japanese national ministries can exploit their Special Status Corporations (public corporations, supported primarily with public funding from a state-run banking agency) in order to intensify their administrative power over industries and local governments and to perpetuate the interests of elite civil servants by facilitating the migration to post-retirement positions in the private sector. The book explains why the existence of these organizations inhibits the Prime Ministers efforts to implement structural reforms. |