This book examines the policy-making process from the perspective of knowledge management, arguing that policy-making is the process of creating knowledge itself.

Chapter 1: The Concept of the Knowledge-based Country

Part I: New Trends in the Policy-Making Process
Chapter 2: Government Functions and the Expansion of Knowledge Centers via Informatization
Corollary: The Trend toward Anonymous Bulletin Boards
Chapter 3: Policy-Making in the Post-Developmentalist Era and Management of Societal Knowledge

Part II: Input from Organizational Innovation
Chapter 4: Knowledge-Creation beyond the Organization and the Policy-Making Process
Chapter 5: Discovering Knowledge Dynamics
Chapter 6: Transformation of the Strategic Environment and the Response by Military Organizations

Part III: Empirical Studies of the Consensus-Building Process
Chapter 7: Process of the "NPO Law" Passage
Chapter 8: Mechanisms for Reducing Complexity in Building Societal Consensus