This book identifies three distinct patterns of policymaking within Japan's current system of hegemonic pluralism: policymaking by camp conflict, incremental policymaking, and pressure group policymaking. These three cover the areas where higher education interacts with politics and government.

List of Tables and Figures – Acknowledgments -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS -- 3. NATURE OF THE ISSUES -- Higher Education in the Prewar Period -- State Dominance -- Institutional Differentiation – Elitism -- Higher Education during the Occupation – Demilitarization – Democratization -- The "Reverse Course" -- 4. NATURE OF POLITICAL STRUCTURES -- Bipolarity and Hegemonic Pluralism -- Bureaucratic Control -- Advisory Committees -- Decline in Private Sector Autonomy -- Legislation and the Diet -- Administrative Directives and Bureaucratic Communications -- The Dilemma of Nonconservative Interests -- 5. POLICYMAKING THROUGH CAMP CONFLICT: UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION -- The Conflict of 1952-54 -- The Efforts of 1960-63 -- The Political Conflict of 1968-69 -- 6. INCREMENTAL POLICYMAKING: -- Enrollment EXPANSION -- Indirect Efforts to Expand Enrollment -- Chartering of Universities -- Nonenforcement of Minimum Legal Standards -- Funding Policy -- Consequences of Government Enrollment Policy -- Deterioration of Educational Conditions -- Class Bias -- Supporting Values -- 7. PRESSURE GROUP POLITICS: -- DIFFERENTIATION AND SPECIALIZATION -- Demands of Big Business -- Differentiation among Institutions -- Specialization of Training -- 8. CONCLUSION – Notes -- Index -- Studies of the East Asian Institute.