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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Estévez-Abe, Margarita, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Colección:Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Temas:
Public welfare > Japan > History.
Welfare state > Japan.
Aide sociale > Japon > Histoire.
État providence > Japon.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Economic history.
Public welfare.
Welfare state.
Japan > Economic conditions.
Japon > Conditions économiques.
Japan.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?

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