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

该奖项将支持明尼苏达大学圣保罗分校的杰弗里·布罗德本特博士与日本庆应大学的小林义明博士进行为期16个月的合作研究。他们将对日本方面进行研究，比较研究美国、西德和日本的商业和劳工利益如何影响公共政策的制定。在这项研究中，将向大约100个商业和劳工组织发送问卷，以确定它们自己的资源、对各种劳工政策问题的兴趣程度，以及最重要的是，与其他组织的任何互动的细节，这些互动旨在影响过去十年的特定政策决策。此外，还将进行面谈。这些数据将被用来确定对手/盟友的模式，以及这些模式如何与问题相关。预计这些研究将增进对日本政治进程的了解。日本合作者的协助将补充首席调查员在这些问题上的丰富经验，并极大地促进这项研究。

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.