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Trends. International Trade And The Subversion Of Justice: Japan, The European Union, And Iraq, Ibpp Editor
Trends. International Trade And The Subversion Of Justice: Japan, The European Union, And Iraq, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author discusses the moral philosophy, the psychology of moral judgment, and treatises on law often suggest that justice subsumes some combination of behavioral and intentional accountability and equity.
Trends. Environment And Security In An Era Of Globalization: Why Kyoto Matters, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Environment And Security In An Era Of Globalization: Why Kyoto Matters, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
THe author discusses the international meeting on global warming set for Kyoto, Japan in December 1997, in which the United States government (USG) still has not provided significant input as to direction, agenda, criteria, and the like.
As A Matter Of Factions: The Budgetary Implications Of Shifting Factional Control In Japan’S Ldp, Mathew D. Mccubbins, Michael F. Thies
As A Matter Of Factions: The Budgetary Implications Of Shifting Factional Control In Japan’S Ldp, Mathew D. Mccubbins, Michael F. Thies
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For 38 years, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) maintained single-party control over the Japanese government. This lack of partisan turnover in government has frustrated attempts to explain Japanese government policy changes using political variables. In this paper, we look for intraparty changes that may have led to changes in Japanese budgetary policy. Using a simple model of agenda-setting, we hypothesize that changes in which intraparty factions “control” the LDP affect the party’s decisions over spending priorities systematically. This runs contrary to the received wisdom in the voluminous literature on LDP factions, which asserts that factions, whatever their raison d’être, do …