Contents

Klaus ARMINGEON
Introduction

Klaus ARMINGEON
Major Changes without Regime Shifts: Switzerland and Japan in Comparative Perspective

Kenji HIRASHIMA
Regime Shift in Japan? Two Decades of Neoliberal Reforms

Hanspeter KRIESI
Regime Shift in Japan and Switzerland?

Adrian VATTER
Challenges to Intergovernmental Relations in Switzerland and Japan

Dietmar BRAUM
From Divergence to Convergence: Shifts in the Science and Technology Policy of Japan and Switzerland

Nobuhiro HIWAARI
The Problem of Macroeconomic Policy Crossroads: Explaining the Economic Policy Paradox of Switzerland and Japan in the 1990s

Sanda LAVENEX
Whither the Liberal Democratic Model? Immigration Politics in Switzerland and Japan.

Giuliano BONOLI and Junko KATO
Social Polices in Switzerland and Japan: Managing Change in Liberal-Conservative Welfare State