As the search for more responsive and robust forms of corporate governance continues internationally, this paper seeks to inform the current debate concerning the relative strengths and limitations of the Japanese system in the context of the rising demands and expectations of global investors....

Continuing its tradition of current, exemplary scholarship, the 2012-13 edition of How Ottawa Spends casts a critical eye at national politics, priorities, and policies, with an emphasis on the Conservative majority's mandated austerity measures and budget-cutting strategies. Leading scholars...