| Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan Contributor(s): Calder, Kent E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691023387 ISBN-13: 9780691023380 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $94.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1991 Annotation: 'This book, historically dense and conceptually rich, is a complex analysis of what Calder calls Japan's 'bifurcated' political economy, in which a protected domestic sector coexists with a highly competitive and dynamic export sector...{The} outstanding merit of this book is in forcing reader' attention to the domestic underpinnings of Japanese foreign policy.'--Donald S. Zagoria, Foreign Affairs |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - History | Asia - Japan |
| Dewey: 320 |
| LCCN: 88009730 |
| Physical Information: 1.35" H x 6.12" W x 9.21" (1.79 lbs) 584 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 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 |
