日本都市政治における「レジーム」分析のために

地域権力構造 (CPS) 研究からの示唆

抄録

This paper reexamines the literature of Community Power Structure (CPS) studies, especially the “Regime Politics” theory, from which implications can be drawn by Japanese city politics analysts. This paper attempts to exemplify that this new viewpoint of power structure in CPS literature is not only consistent with Japanese traditional regional sociology approach but also helps to describe the transformation of local governance, which is quietly taking root in peripheral towns while exposing some hint of “radical democracy”