The Elite Bureaucracy: Prisoners of the System

Susan Carpenter
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Susan Carpenter: The University of Edinburgh Business School

Chapter 6 in Why Japan Can’t Reform, 2008, pp 103-113 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The events described in the previous chapter were the consequence of the interpersonal network between the bureaucracy and the private sector. While these relationships exist in all countries, in Japan the networks are engendered with such mechanisms as the ministries’ public corporations and the amakudari system and further intensified by the continuous political support from the LDP and the reliance on ministerial guidance by the Japanese. Bureaucrats operate unsanctioned by law. They can be arrested for accepting bribes, as was the case for former vice-minister Moriya, but often they are allowed to remain in their agencies as long as they are loyal to their institution.

Keywords: Japanese Government; Foreign Agent; Career Officer; Prefecture Government; Home Office (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230595064_6

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