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Welfare and capitalism in postwar Japan /

By: Contributor(s): Series: Cambridge studies in comparative politicsNew York: Cambridge University Press, 2008Description: xv, 340 pages : ill.ustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780521856935 (hdbk.)
  • 9780521722216 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC462.95 EST 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Rashomon: the Japanese welfare state in a comparative perspective -- Structural logics of welfare politics -- Historical patterns of structural logic in postwar Japan -- The rise of the Japanese social protection system in the 1950s -- Economic growth and Japan's selective welfare expansion -- Institutional complemetarities and the Japanese welfare capitalism -- The emergence of trouble in the 1970s -- Policy shifts in the 1990s: the emergence of European-style welfare politics -- The end of Japan's social protection as we know it: becoming like Britain?
Summary: This work 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
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-327) and index.

Rashomon: the Japanese welfare state in a comparative perspective -- Structural logics of welfare politics -- Historical patterns of structural logic in postwar Japan -- The rise of the Japanese social protection system in the 1950s -- Economic growth and Japan's selective welfare expansion -- Institutional complemetarities and the Japanese welfare capitalism -- The emergence of trouble in the 1970s -- Policy shifts in the 1990s: the emergence of European-style welfare politics -- The end of Japan's social protection as we know it: becoming like Britain?

This work 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

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