Crisis and Compensation : : Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan / / Kent E. Calder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Calder, Kent E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (584 p.)

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 party's 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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- A Note on Conventions -- Introduction -- 1 The Specter of Crisis -- 2 A Chronology of Crisis -- 3 The Technocratic Possibility -- 4 From Crisis to Compensation -- 5 Agricultural Policy: The Wax and Wane of Rural Bias -- 6 Regional Policy: Periodic Power to the Periphery -- 7 Small Business Policy: The Confluence of Industrial Policy and Welfare -- 8 Welfare Policy: Strategic Benevolence -- 9 Land Use Policy: Exclusive Circles of Compensation -- 10 The Residual: Defense -- 11 Explaining Patterns in Japanese Public Policy -- APPENDIX I: Major Innovations in Six Key Japanese Public Policy Sectors, 1945-1986a -- APPENDIX II Japanese House of Representatives General Election Results, 1946-1986a -- Bibliography -- Index