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The Welfare State and its Effect on Municipal Government in Japan: A Case Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2001

Yasuo Takao
Affiliation:
Curtin University of Technology

Abstract

Since the end of World War II, the ever-increasing role of government in advanced democratic nations has resulted in a massive organizational growth in the public sector. The impact of the welfare state provides an explanation for changes in traditional patterns of central–local government relations. The era of the welfare state has witnessed the rapid emergence of an intermeshed system of making and implementing policies, which necessitates integration between central and local government.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© Copyright 1998 Cambridge University Press

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