Author: Steiner, Kurt
Title: Local Government in Japan
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1965. orig.cloth. 23x16cm, xii, 564 pp. Textual tables.. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: A Historical Survey of Local Government: Some Observations on Local Government in Feudal Japan; The Establishment of the Meiji Local Government System; A Survey of Local Government in Prewar Japan; Wartime Local Government; Occupation Reforms in Local Government, I; Occupation Reforms in Local Government, II; An Analysis of Contemporary Local Government: The Constitution and Local Autonomy; The Prefecture and Its Future; Municipalities and Special Local Public Bodies; Neighborhood Associations; The Muddle of Functions; The Financial Dependence of Local Government; Relations Between Levels of Government; The Organization of Local Entities; Citizen Participation in Local Government, I; Citizen Participation in Local Government, II.

Keywords: Japanese Local Government, Politics, Japan, East Asia, Political History, Municipal, Administration, ,