Keio University Syllabus and Timetable

This course explores the key public policy issues through critiquing key literature. It pursues to contemplate selected key public policy issues, with an approach of the comparative case study. The course consists of seminars, in which students present their understanding and analysis, referring to the literature. It aims at not only international students interested in public policy issues but also domestic students who would like to develop their ability to engage classes in English; those who have difficulty to participate in/understand the course are strongly advised to contact the lecturer.

Approach:
All students are strongly required to be present at all sessions of the seminars. As this course depends upon the active participation of the students, attendance and preparation before the class are strongly required. Students who have difficulty to join the course are strongly encouraged to directly contact the lecturer. I will try to offer opportunities to interact with students as interaction will significantly help students understand the issue. Each student will offer two 20–30 min presentations referring to the assigned part of the literature in this course, followed by the discussants' comments and questions. After the presentation, the seminar will discuss and consider the topic under the supervision of the lecturer.
In the presentation each group will have a discussant, who will summarise the presentation and ask a couple of key questions, followed by others. The presenters are expected to exhibit the following: (1) the nature of the chosen topic; (2) their analysis of the topic based on robust reasoning; and (3) their argument drawing on the analysis.

Goal:
Students are expected to acquire the factual knowledge of contemporary public policy in Japan, contemplate the key policy challenges of the field, and present and discuss the issues independently. Independent learning is very important: students are expected to independently analyse and understand the characteristics and nature of public policy in the context of contemporary public policy.

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• Mogaki, M. (2015) ‘The evolving power of the core executive: a case study of Japan’s ICT regulation after the 1980s’. Pacific Affairs, 88, (1) (March 2015), 27–49.
• Mogaki, M. (2017) ‘Governance, Japan’, in Farazmand, A. (Ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Berlin: Springer.
• Mogaki, M. (2019) Understanding Governance in Contemporary Japan: Transformation and the Regulatory State. Manchester: Manchester UP.
• Moran, M. (2003) The British Regulatory State: High Modernism and Hyper-Innovation. Oxford: Oxford UP.
• Rosenbluth, F. M. and Thies, M. F. (2010) Japan transformed: political change and economic restructuring. Princeton, NJ/Woodstock: Princeton UP.*
• Steinmo, S. (2010) The Evolution of Modern States. New York: Cambridge UP.*
• Strausz, M. Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
• Vogel, S. K. (2018) Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work. New York: Oxford UP*.
(* this literature has a Japanese translation.)

• Gallagher, M. and Michell, P. (eds) (2005) The Politics of Electoral Systems. Oxford: Oxford UP.
• Gaunder, A. (2017) Japanese Politics and Government. London: Routledge.
• McCargo, D. (2013) Contemporary Japan (Contemporary States and Societies). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Neary, I. J. (2019) The State and Politics in Japan, Second Edition. Cambridge: Polity.
• Stockwin, J. A. A. (2008) Governing Japan: Divided Politics in a Resurgent Economy [4th Edition]. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

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