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  1. Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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Aoki, N. (2018). Japan’s Bureaucracy in International Perspective. 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_3506-2

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