Welfare and capitalism in postwar Japan /

This book explains how postwar Japan managed to achieve a highly egalitarian form of capitalism despite meager social spending. Estevez-Abe develops an institutional, rational-choice model to solve this puzzle. She shows how Japan's electoral system generated incentives that led political actor...

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Main Author: Estévez-Abe, Margarita, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Series:Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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