| The existing studies on Japan's policymaking presume that the bureaucracy can be treated as a unitary actor. They fail to account for the precise nature of bureaucratic motivations, or for the significant variations in policymaking dynamics across ministries. This dissertation attempts to shed new light upon the study of Japanese bureaucracy by examining the factors behind cross-ministerial differences in bureaucratic incentives and policy preferences. Specifically, it tests the hypothesis that the differences in organizational characteristics create divergent incentives among ministries and affect their policy preferences.;This dissertation compares the institutional attributes and the resulting bureaucratic incentives of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture (Monbusho) and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), and examines how these differences affect each ministry's policy stance in the area of promotion of academia-industry collaboration. |
