How Policies Change: The Japanese Government and the Aging Society. (book reviews)

As the title and subtitle suggest, Campbell's densely written book pursues several goals. Why the elderly have been dealt different hands from other "policy takers" in Japan constitutes the basic research framework. But while mapping that archipelago, he was overtaken by the notion that his scientific mission bore a parallel to that which carried Darwin on his famous journey to the Galapagos Islands. While the hegira of the wizened Orientals might not reveal the master clue to societal evolution, it just might hold the key to a more general theory of policy change.

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