Research on the Change of Power in the Post War Western Europe

1. 政府更迭的政治计划有两个目的。第一个目的是对西欧的权力更迭进行实证案例研究。二是考虑关于权力更迭的政治理论。为了第一个目的，我们与东京大学的COE合作写了一篇文章：“发达国家（（政策体系））的发明”。该研究结果已发表在《权力更迭的政治学》期刊上。现在，每一篇论文都被修改了；它将由东京大学出版协会出版成书。我们研究的国家是英国、法国、德国、意大利、荷兰，并计划了理论的一章。作为研究代表的Susumu Takahashi现在正在研究理论模型，这篇文章将被收录在上面提到的书中。其目的是提取存在于政权更迭和权力更迭中间的可称为半政权更迭的权力更迭。分析层次分为三个层次。首先，分析一种政治思潮（如从撒切尔主义到第三条道路）的变化是如何发生的。政党制度的重组被视为第二个层面。第三个层面是政策问题，执政党和反对党之间政策距离的差异对政权更迭有什么影响。此外，《调节欧洲政治》作为COE的临时论文发表，并与COE合作举办了关于欧盟的研讨会（2005年9月），并发表了关于该研讨会的临时论文：欧盟宪法条约和欧洲项目的未来。

1. The project of politics of the change of governments had two aims. The first aim was to do case studies of the change of power in Western Europe empirically. The second was to consider the political theory concerning the change of power.2. For the first purpose, we made the essay in cooperation with COE of The University of Tokyo: "Invention of ((policy system )) in advanced countries". The result has already been published as Occasional Paper of COE "Politics of the change of power". And now, each thesis is retouched ; it is going to be published as a book by The University of Tokyo publication association. The countries we treat are Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and the chapter of the theory is planned.3. Susumu Takahashi who is the research representative now is researching the theoretical model and this article will be collected in the book mentioned above. This aims the extraction of the change of power that can be called a semi-regime change that exists in the middle of the regime change and the change of power. The analytical level is distinguished to three levels. At the first level, how the changes of a trend of political thought occur (For instance, from the Thatcherism to Third Way) is analyzed. The reorganization of the political party system is treated as the second level. The third level is a problem of the policy, and what influence the difference of the policy distance between ruling and opposition parties gives to the change of power.4.Additionally, "Modulating European politics" was published as Occasional Paper of COE and the symposium concerning EU was held in cooperation with COE (September,2005) and Occasional Paper about this Symposium : The EU Constitutional Treaty and the Future of European Project was published.