Government and Politics

Edited by : Masashi Sekiguchi,

Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Government and Politics

M. Sekiguchi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

N. Okawara, Faculty of Law and Politics, Kyushu University, Japan

Forms and Models of Government

J. Frank Harrison, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Democracy

Takamaro Hanzawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Constitutional Government

Hans Keman, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Faculty of Social-Cultural Sciences, Free University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Authoritarian System

Robert Bedeski, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada

Communist System

David W. Lovell, School of Politics, University College, University of New South Wales, Australia

Military Government

Hugo Dobson, The School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK

Economic Development and Government

Michael W. Donnelly, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada

Structure of Government

Hans Keman, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Faculty of Social-Cultural Sciences, Free University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Legislature

Hironori Ito, Faculty of Law, Kumamoto University, Japan

Judiciary

Ivan Hare, Centre for Public Law, University of Cambridge/ Trinity College, UK

Cabinet and Presidency

Kozo Kato, Sophia University, Japan

Federal System

Dennis Frank Woodward, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Australia

Bureaucracies

Jun Iio, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan

Government Finance

David Seth Jones, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Political Aspects of Government

Nobuo Okawara, Faculty of Law and Politics, Kyushu University, Japan

Election and Voting

David Seth Jones, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Political Parties

Takamichi Mito, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Interest Groups

Yutaka Tsujinaka, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Public Opinion and Mass Media

Morio Watanabe, Kyushu International University, Japan

Decentralization and Local Politics

Tatsuro Niikawa, Doshisha University, Japan

Power Structure

Antonio Leopold Rappa, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Ideas and Ideologies in Politics

Richard Vernon, Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Liberalism

Ken Tsutsumibayashi, Faculty of Law, Keio University, Japan

Nationalism

Margaret Moore, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Canada

Conservatism

Takamaro Hanzawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Anarchism

Antonio Leopold Rappa, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Socialism and Communism

David W. Lovell, School of Politics, University College, University of New South Wales, Australia

Human Rights

William Sweet, Department of Philosophy, St Francis Xavier University, Canada

Ecologism

Marcel Wissenburg, School of Public Affairs, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Feminism

Theresa Man Ling Lee, Department of Political Science, University of Guelph, Canada

Religion and Politics

Gerald P. Heather, Political Science Department, San Francisco State University, USA

International Politics

Shigeko Fukai, Faculty of Law, Okayama University, Japan

Realism

Go Ito, School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University, Japan

Regionalism

Glenn D. Hook, Graduate School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK

Actors in World Politics

Hideki Kan, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan

International Regimes

Ryo Oshiba, Department of Law, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

International System

Ryuhei Hatsuse, Faculty of Law, Kobe University, Japan

Broadening The Concept of Peace and Security

Gen Kikkawa, Faculty of Law, Kobe University, Japan

Science, Governance, Complexity, and Knowledge Assessment

Silvio Funtowicz, European Commission Joint Research Center-Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety, Ispra (VA), Italy
Martin O’Connor, Center d’Economie et d’Ethique pour l’Environnement et le Développement, Universitéde Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Guyancourt, France
Iain Shepherd, European Commission Joint Research Center-Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety, Ispra (VA), Italy