Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan write by Amy Catalinac. This book was released on 2016-01-25. Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that Japanese politicians pay more attention to security issues nowadays because of the electoral reform.
Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan
Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan write by Amy Catalinac. This book was released on 2016-01-25. Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japan is the third-largest economy in the world and a key ally of the United States. Yet the determinants of Japanese security policy are not well understood. The question of why Japan never sought the independent military capabilities that would be commensurate with its economic power has puzzled scholars of international relations for decades. Applying new tools for the quantitative analysis of text to a new collection of 7,497 Japanese-language election manifestos used in elections between 1986 and 2009, this book argues that the electoral strategies politicians in the ruling party were forced to adopt under Japan's old electoral system made it extraordinarily difficult for them to focus on security issues and to change security policy. It was only when their electoral strategies shifted after electoral reform in 1994 that these same politicians became able to pay attention and change security policy.
The Politics of Electoral Reform
The Politics of Electoral Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Electoral Reform write by Alan Renwick. This book was released on 2010-02-04. The Politics of Electoral Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Elections lie at the heart of democracy, and this book seeks to understand how the rules governing those elections are chosen. Drawing on both broad comparisons and detailed case studies, it focuses upon the electoral rules that govern what sorts of preferences voters can express and how votes translate into seats in a legislature. Through detailed examination of electoral reform politics in four countries (France, Italy, Japan, and New Zealand), Alan Renwick shows how major electoral system changes in established democracies occur through two contrasting types of reform process. Renwick rejects the simple view that electoral systems always straightforwardly reflect the interests of the politicians in power. Politicians' motivations are complex; politicians are sometimes unable to pursue reforms they want; occasionally, they are forced to accept reforms they oppose. The Politics of Electoral Reform shows how voters and reform activists can have real power over electoral reform.
U.S. Education Reform and National Security
U.S. Education Reform and National Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook U.S. Education Reform and National Security write by Joel I. Klein. This book was released on 2014-05-14. U.S. Education Reform and National Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. This report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other developed countries, its students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers. According to the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, U.S. students rank fourteenth in reading, twenty-fifth in math, and seventeenth in science compared to students in other industrialized countries. The lack of preparedness poses threats on five national security fronts: economic growth and competitiveness, physical safety, intellectual property, U.S. global awareness, and U.S. unity and cohesion, says the report. Too many young people are not employable in an increasingly high-skilled and global economy, and too many are not qualified to join the military because they are physically unfit, have criminal records, or have an inadequate level of education. The report proposes three overarching policy recommendations: implement educational expectations and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security; make structural changes to provide students with good choices; and, launch a "national security readiness audit" to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and to raise public awareness.
Japan's New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance
Japan's New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan's New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance write by Sheila A. Smith. This book was released on 2014-07-01. Japan's New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japan's new politics challenge some basic assumptions about U.S.-Japan alliance management. CFR Senior Fellow Sheila A. Smith explores this new era of alternating parties in power and reveals the growing importance of Japan's domestic politics in shaping alliance cooperation.
