英文摘要 |
For decades, the telecommunications sector has been well accepted as a public monopolized industry. It was not until the end of the twentieth century that deregulation or liberalization of this industrial sector was put on the agenda of the WTO. However, the process of liberalization has varied among different political economic institutions. The Japanese experience has set a good example to demonstrate the impact of institutional factors on the process of liberalizationist. The author intends to apply the neo-institutionalist approach to illustrate the long process of the liberalization of the Japanese telecommunications sector. When discussing this liberalization process, the paper focuses on institutional competition, policy preferences of private sector and executive branch, and party politics. |