Crisis and Compensation : : Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan / / Kent E. Calder.
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 compensatio...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1984 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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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