Democracy and Accountability

通过邀请来自美国和欧洲的三位顶尖政治科学家，该项目最初是一个国际研究小组，专注于民主问责制的概念，这是当今政治研究中最流行的主题之一。该项目在早稻田大学组织了三次国际会议。所有项目成员的最终成果收集在Hideko Magara，编辑，Democracy and Accountability，Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research（B），March 2007，which includes the following papers：P. Schmidt“Political Accountability in Real-Existing Democracies：Meaning and Mechanisms“S.千叶“Democratic Accountability of the Late Modern State：Legitimacy Crisis and War Responsibility“T.J.Pempel“Regionalizing the Developmental State：东北亚的政治与经济责任“T.Oshimura“，日本的全球化与分散的责任：20世纪90年代初到小泉政府“福田康夫“对欧盟和日本食品安全政策的问责“M.戈尔登“现代先进民主国家政治腐败的一些困惑”M.Ido“Big Bang and the Production Regime：Historical Origin of Unaccountable Corporate Governance in意大利大利and Japan”H.Magara“Economic Growth and Democratic Accountability：Coordinated Market Economies，Party Polarization in OECD Countries”

By inviting three leading political scientists from the US and Europe, the project started as an international study group focusing on the notion of democratic accountability, one of the most fashionable themes in today's political studies. The project organized three international conferences at Waseda University. The final outcomes of all the project members are collected in Hideko Magara, eds., Democracy and Accountability, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), March 2007, which includes the following papers :P.Schmitter "Political Accountability in Real-Existing Democracies : Meaning and Mechanisms"S.Chiba "Democratic Accountability of the Late Modern State : Legitimacy Crisis and War Responsibility"T.J.Pempel "Regionalizing the Developmental State : Political and Economic-Accountability in Northeast Asia"T.Oshimura, "Globalization and Fragmented Accountability in Japan : The Early 1990s to the Koizumi Administration"K.Fukuda "Accountability on the Food Safety Policy in the European Union and Japan"M.Golden "Some Puzzles of Political Corruption in Modern Advanced Democracies"M.Ido "Big Bang and the Production Regime : Historical Origin of Unaccountable Corporate Governance in Italy and JapanH.Magara "Economic Growth and Democratic Accountability : Coordinated Market Economies, Party Polarization in OECD Countries"