Japan Long-Term Visit: The Politics of Labor Policy Formation

该奖项将支持杰弗里布罗德本特博士的大学 明尼苏达州的圣保罗进行合作研究博士。 日本庆应义塾大学的Yoshiaki小林进行了16个月的研究。 他们 将对日本方面进行比较研究 企业和劳工利益如何影响 美国的公共政策西德德国和日本。 在本研究中，将向约100名 企业和劳工组织确定自己的资源， 对各种劳动政策问题的兴趣程度，而且，大多数 重要的是，与其他组织的任何互动的细节 旨在影响具体的政策决定， 过去十年。 还将进行个人面试。 该数据 将被用来确定对手/盟友的模式，以及如何这些 模式取决于问题。 预计将增加 对日本政治进程的理解将由此产生 问题研究 日本合作者的援助将补充 主要研究者在这些问题上的丰富经验， 极大地促进了这项研究。

This award will support Dr. Jeffrey Broadbent of the University of Minnesota at St. Paul to conduct collaborative research with Dr. Yoshiaki Kobayashi of Keio University, Japan for 16 months. They will perform research on the Japanese aspects of a comparative study of how business and labor interests affect the establishment of public policy in the U.S., West Germany and Japan. In this research, questionnaires will be sent to about one hundred business and labor organizations to ascertain their own resources, degree of interest in various labor policy issues, and, most important, details of any interactions with other organizations which were intended to influence specific policy decisions over the last decade. Personal interviews will also be conducted. This data will be used to determine adversary/ally patterns, and how these patterns are issue-dependent. It is expected that an increased understanding of the Japanese political process will ensue from these studies. The Japanese collaborator's assistance will complement the Principal Investigator's considerable experience with these issues, and greatly facilitate this study.