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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | 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 actors to protect various groups that lost out in market competition. She explains how Japan's postwar welfare state relied upon various alternatives to orthodox social spending programs. The initial postwar success of Japan's political economy has given way to periods of crisis and reform. This book follows this story up to the present day. Estevez-Abe shows how the current electoral system renders obsolete the old form of social protection. She argues that institutionally Japan now resembles Britain and predicts that Japan's welfare system will also come to resemble Britain's. Japan thus faces a more market-oriented society and less equality. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 340 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-327) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511415395 0511415397 9780511510069 0511510063 1107177103 9781107177109 1281751367 9781281751362 9786611751364 661175136X 0511414714 9780511414718 0511413114 9780511413117 0511412177 9780511412172 |
