1962- <br/><br/>
Welfare and capitalism in postwar Japan / 

 - xv, 340 pages :  ill.ustrations ; 
 - Cambridge studies in comparative politics .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-327) and index. 
<br/><br/>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? 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521856935 (hdbk.) 9780521722216 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Public welfare--History.<br/>Welfare state<br/>Economic history<br/>BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economic History
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC462.95  / EST 2008