caa a22 4500 386404550 CHVBK 20180307112214.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2057381 doi S0021911800057776 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2057381 Allinson Gary D. Politics in Contemporary Japan: Pluralist Scholarship in the Conservative Era— A Review Article [Elektronische Daten] [Gary D. Allinson] Bureaucrats have historically dominated many Asian polities, and Japan is no exception. Ever since the Meiji Restoration of 1868, public servants in national ministries have enjoyed special privileges and powers. They shaped Japan's emergence as an industrial state, they collaborated with militarists to govern during the wartime era, and they presided over Japan's postwar economic ascent. Only in recent decades has a bureaucratically dominant polity in Japan come under challenge. A more organized, affluent, and demanding populace has been one force encroaching on bureaucratic influence. The other has been a long-standing, increasingly experienced, and cautiously pragmatic contingent of Liberal Democratic party (LDP) leaders and legislators. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 The Journal of Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 48/2(1989-05), 324-332 0021-9118 48:2<324 1989 48 JAS https://doi.org/10.2307/2057381 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2057381 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Allinson Gary D. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 48/2(1989-05), 324-332 0021-9118 48:2<324 1989 48 JAS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge