Introduction
In the past 30 years, there has been a significant growth in the literature on governance within political science, in part as a response to the decline of the state’s traditional role and capacity in developed countries. The governance literature seeks to offer new forms of governing system analysis in the transforming political arenas after the 1980s. This set of new approaches in political science literature has prompted the renewed debate on the state. The debate on governance has helped bring the state back in to political science literature partly because the period of the government in which it was supposed to address many of key political issues in society was replaced by a new era in which the term “governance” is employed to address the set of governing processes. Namely, examining “government”...
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Mogaki, M. (2018). Governance, Japan. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3273-1
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