Monthly Archives: June 2015

日本政治や比較政治を研究する学者の間でよく知られているであろう名著。日本の政治のどこに問題があるかを、研究者ではない人にもわかりやすく説明しています。最近の政治学の研究蓄積（実証主義のもの）にもとづいており、とくに日本だけでなく世界各国のデータを用いて論じている点が秀逸で、著者の見識の広さを物語っています。選挙権を与えられたけどどうしようと思ってるあなたも、長年日本政治に不満を抱いているあなたも、民主党も安倍政権も好きではないけど何が問題かわかりにくいというあなたも、どうですか一度読んでみては？

Last Saturday I had a chance to attend a study circle in Kobe, where I enjoyed a lot the discussion on various points. This book was the assignment for that occasion. After Barack Obama elected in 2008, new political movement emerged in the US, not for but against this first African American president in a country with usually-known W.A.S.P. dominance. The movement takes the name of Tea Party, as a traditional symbol of American conservatism, and often agitated discriminatory attitudes. They don’t have remarkable leader. Who are they? Why they come out? What impact  this movement will have? The authors conveyed survey in thirteen states in the US in 2011 … Continue reading →

Why some countries took the path of developmental state and achieved admirable economic performance while others not in Asia? This book seeks for the answer to this often neglected but significant question. The focus of author is straightforward. After the end of WWII, the formerly colonized countries faced a period with high uncertainty. Under complex situation of independence, domestic instability, external intervention and ideological conflicts at the dawn of Cold War, political leaders of each countries interacted and set a certain pattern of  inter-elites and elite-mass relationship, which left legacy in the following decades. The author compares South Korea, Vietnam, China and Indonesia in order to analyze the difference between … Continue reading →