Changes in Welfare-employment Regime and their Impact on Group Politics in Japan

这个项目的目的是阐明福利-就业制度的变化如何影响日本群体政治的重建，反过来，这种政治过程的重建如何加速了福利-就业制度的变化。通过对制度变迁、利益集团研究和民意调查的跨国研究，本项目旨在证明，福利就业制度的最新发展减少了建筑业协会和工会的影响，而由于日本就业制度对这些团体活动的依赖，这些协会和工会的影响反过来又导致了就业制度的进一步不稳定。此外，本项目在一些地方看到了一种新的群体政治的可能性，在这些地方，非营利社会企业在实现社会包容方面发挥着重要作用。

The purpose of this project is to clarify how changes in the welfare-employment regime have impacted on the reconstruction of group politics in Japan, and conversely, how this very reconstitution of the political process has accelerated changes in the welfare-employment regime. By a cross-national examination of studies on institutional change, interest groups study, and public opinion polls, this project aims to demonstrate that recent developments in the welfare-employment regime have reduced the influence of construction industry associations and trade unions which has in turn, due to the dependence of the Japanese employment regime on the activity of these groups, led to the further destabilization of the employment regime. In addition, this project sees the possibility of a new group politics in some local areas, where non-profit social enterprises are playing important roles in the realization of social inclusion.