Crisis and Compensation. Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publisher Place: Princeton
Publisher Year: 1988
Edition: First Edition

Description: 557 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Why does Japan, with its efficiency-oriented technocracy, periodically adopt welfare-oriented, economically inefficient domestic policies In answering this question Kent Calder shows that Japanese policymakers respond to threats to the ruling partys preeminence by extending income compensation, entitlements, and subsidies, with market-oriented retrenchment coming as crisis subsides. "Quite simply the most ambitious and strongly argued interpretation of a key dimension of Japanese political life to appear in English this decade."--David Williams, Japan Times "Historically dense and conceptually rich.... [Forces] readers attention to the domestic underpinnings of Japanese foreign policy."--Donald S. Zagoria, Foreign Affairs "Punctures the myth of Japan Inc. as a cool, rational monolith...."--Kathleen Newland, Millennium "A bold reinterpretation of Japanese politics that will force us to rethink many of our current assumptions and will influence our research agenda."--Steven R. Reed, Journal of Japanese Studies

ISBN: 0691056501