{"product_id":"comparing-policy-networks-labor-politics-in-the-u-s-germany-and-japan-paperback-9780521499279","title":"Comparing Policy Networks; Labor Politics in the U.S., Germany, and Japan (Paperback) 9780521499279","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eComparing Policy Networks\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLabor Politics in the U.S., Germany, and Japan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book examines how labor policies were made in the US, Germany, and Japan during the 1980s.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Knoke (Author), Franz Urban Pappi (Author), Jeffrey Broadbent (Author), Yutaka Tsujinaka (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521499279, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 26 January 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e308 pages, 30 line figures\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.413 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...they show how our understanding of the very nature and meaning of the state has improved....the author deftly accomplishes his goal of showing that efficient and rational development is a social fiction whose meaning reflects neither efficiency nor rationality but the larger social fictions of different cutural systems....smoothly written and lively exposition of great coherence.\"    John Boli, ASQ\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe United States, Germany, and Japan - the world's three most powerful and successful free market societies - differ strikingly in how their governments relate to their economies. Comparing Policy Networks reports the results of collaborative research by three teams investigating the social organization and policymaking processes of national labor policy domains in the United States, Germany, and Japan during the 1980s. The researchers gathered information about policy goals, communication patterns, and political support connections from 350 key national organizations, including labor unions, business associations, public interest groups, government agencies, and political parties. These networks reveal similar conflict divisions between business and labor interests, but also distinctive patterns within each nation. Unique combinations of informal policy-making networks and the national political institutions may in part explain the differences in power structures and legislative decisions.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of tables and figures\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. Policy-making in the organizational state\u003cbr\u003e 2. Three labor policy domains\u003cbr\u003e 3. Finding domain actors\u003cbr\u003e 4. organizational policy interests\u003cbr\u003e 5. Policy webs: networks, reputations, and activities\u003cbr\u003e 6. Fighting collectively: action sets and events\u003cbr\u003e 7. Exchange processes\u003cbr\u003e 8. Power structures\u003cbr\u003e 9. Variations on a theme of organizational states\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1. Legislative procedures in three nations\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2. Labor policy domain organizations\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 3. Labor policy domain issues\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 4. Labor policy domain legislative bills\u003cbr\u003e Footnotes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Tables and figures.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Comparative politics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Comparative politics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Comparative%20politics%20%5BJPB%5D%22\"\u003eJPB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46019722248472,"sku":"9780521499279","price":26.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521499279i_da0ed6b9-1007-4022-9d1c-996251970aba.jpg?v=1691383161","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/comparing-policy-networks-labor-politics-in-the-u-s-germany-and-japan-paperback-9780521499279","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}