The making of modern Japan : : power, crisis, and the promise of transformation /

The making of modern Japan : : power, crisis, and the promise of transformation / / Myles Carroll.

In The Making of Modern Japan , Myles Carroll offers a sweeping account of post-war Japanese political economy, exploring the transition from the post-war boom to the crisis of today and the connections between these seemingly discrete periods. Carroll explores the multifarious international and dom...

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Superior document:Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 191/07
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Carroll, Myles,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 191/07.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
  • CHAPTERS
  • 1. Introduction
  • Analytical approach
  • Outline of the argument
  • Outline of chapters
  • 2. Lineages of Japanese political economy
  • Creative conservatism and the developmental state: Japan's post-war boom
  • Institutional approaches to the study of Japanese politics
  • The long decline: Theorizing crisis in Heisei Japan
  • The welfare state and social reproduction in post-war Japan
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Towards a Gramscian understanding of Japanese political economy
  • Historical materialist methodology
  • Hegemony
  • Hegemony and hegemonic order
  • Social reproduction
  • Conditions for hegemonic order
  • Historic bloc
  • Explaining change: Conjunctural and organic
  • Organic crisis
  • World order, forms of state, social forces
  • Relations of force
  • Caesarism, passive revolution and trasformismo
  • Political ecology
  • Towards a Gramscian feminist approach to the Japanese post-war order
  • Conclusion
  • 4. The post-war hegemonic order
  • The post-war hegemonic order
  • Conditions of post-war hegemonic order
  • Geopolitics: The Yoshida Doctrine and the US-Japan Security Treaty (Anpo)
  • Global political economy: The Bretton Woods System
  • The electoral and party system: The rise of LDP dominance
  • The state form: The rise of bureaucracy-driven governance
  • Production and capital: Japanese developmentalism and the keiretsu
  • Production and labour: Enterprise unionism and lifetime employment
  • Production and the petit bourgeoisie: Clientelism and the old middle class
  • Gender and the family: Extended families and the gender division of labour
  • Demography and welfare: Young society, small welfare state
  • Nation and ideology: The pacifist nationalism of the post-war era
  • Environment and national resources: Cheap oil
  • The post-war Japanese historic bloc
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Contradictions and transitions of the Shōwa era
  • Structural changes to world order
  • The Nixon shocks
  • The oil shocks
  • American trade frictions and the Plaza Accord
  • Structural demographic changes
  • The beginning of an aging society
  • The decline of extended families
  • The rise of women in the workforce
  • Political changes
  • Institutional changes
  • The heyday of the kōenkai
  • The rise of factions and the PARC
  • Institutional changes and continuities in Japanese business relations
  • Lifetime employment and the dual system
  • Clientelism and the construction state
  • Implications of these changes for hegemonic order
  • Economic implications
  • Political implications
  • Social implications
  • Conclusion
  • 6. The organic crisis of the Heisei era
  • Historical background to the crisis
  • 1989-1993: Two electoral shocks
  • 1993-1996: Coalition governments, political reform
  • 1996-2001: LDP's return to power, administrative and financial reform.
  • 2001-2006: Rise of Koizumi, postal privatization
  • 2006-2009: LDP impasse
  • 2009-2012: Rise and fall of the DPJ
  • Conditions of the crisis
  • Geopolitics: Security Alliance in a post-Cold War world
  • Global political economy: Japan in a global neoliberal era
  • The electoral and party system: Crisis, reform, and the end of LDP rule
  • The state form: Institutional decay and administrative reform
  • Production and capital: The Americanization of Japanese capitalism?
  • Production and labour: Deregulation and the rise of the working poor
  • Production and the petit bourgeoisie: End of the pork-barrel system?
  • Gender and the family: The end of the male breadwinner model and shōshika
  • Demography and welfare: The rise of the 'pension state'
  • Nation and ideology: 'Normal country' or tan'itsu minzoku?
  • Political ecology: Climate change, the nuclear turn and 3/11
  • Implications of the crisis
  • Summary of the economic accumulation crisis
  • Summary of the political legitimation crisis
  • Summary of the social reproduction crisis
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Caesarism, passive revolution and the return of the LDP under Abe
  • Abe's political comeback
  • Breaking the deadlock: The Caesarism of "Abenomics"
  • Breaking the deadlock through expansionary Keynesian policy
  • Breaking the deadlock through neoliberal economic reform
  • Breaking the deadlock through welfare state expansion
  • Implications of Caesarism under Abe
  • The real Abe? Passive revolution, militarism and soft authoritarianism
  • Asserting control over the LDP
  • Passive revolution in administrative reform
  • Passive revolution in domestic security policy
  • Abe's passive revolution
  • Consequences of Abe's reign for the hegemonic order
  • Capital accumulation
  • Political legitimation
  • Social reproduction
  • Conclusion
  • 8. Whither post-Abe Japan? Four scenarios for the future
  • The neo-conservative option
  • Overview
  • Relations of force behind neo-conservatism
  • The neo-conservative solution to organic crisis
  • Challenges and contradictions of neo-conservatism
  • The neo-liberal path
  • Overview
  • Relations of force behind neo-liberalism
  • The neo-liberal solution to organic crisis
  • Challenges and contradictions of neo-liberalism
  • Back to the future? Neo-communitarianism
  • Overview
  • Relations of force behind neo-liberalism
  • The neo-liberal solution to organic crisis
  • Challenges and contradictions of neo-liberalism
  • Counter-hegemony and a democratic socialist future
  • Overview
  • Relations of force behind democratic socialism
  • The democratic socialist solution to organic crisis
  • Challenges and contradictions of democratic socialism
  • Conclusion
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Contradictions for hegemonic order: Political legitimation
  • Contradictions for hegemonic order: Capital accumulation
  • Contradictions for hegemonic order: Social reproduction
  • Overarching theoretical implications of the argument
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX.

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