POLITICAL AND LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENT IN POST-WAR JAPAN: AN ANALYSIS

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1. Introduction 2. Views on Japanese Politics 3. Political Values and Practices 4. The Diet and the Legislative System 5. Role of the Parliamentary Committees 6. Bureaucrats in Legislative Process 7. The LDP Structures in Legislation 8. Legislative Politics 9. Recent Reforms in the Diet 9. Political Party Affairs 10. The Non-LDP Government and Reform Measures 11. The LDP's Return and Japanese Politics 12. Party Building and the Opposition 13. Koizumi's Reforms and Present Process 14. Concluding Remarks

POLITICAL AND LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENT IN POST-WAR JAPAN: AN ANALYSIS

Author: Ai Masud Hasanuzzaman

DOI Link: DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.56888/BIISSj2005v26n2a5

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Post-war political reform measures in Japan led to the formulation of a new constitution for the country in 1947 characterized by Westminster type of parliamentary democracy and popular sovereignty. Over the years, the post-war system has taken roots along with interplay of representative organs of the state involving both formal and informal role-playing actors and mechanisms in the political system. In the process of legislation, besides the use of legislative devices and participation of the civil bureaucracy and policy affairs research structures (PARC) of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), informal behind-the-scene contacts of the parliamentary parties had been observed. One important feature in the legislative affairs has been a gradual progress toward Diet reform since the 1990s affecting parliamentary behaviour and activism. The LDP dominated the political process and party affairs for about four decades until 1993 when a major political change took place marking the end of the '1955 system' and the LDP rule. Multifarious political reforms introduced since 1993 led to transform the politico-electoral process with an impact on party building, democratic procedures and practices

BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

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