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100			_aMargarita Estévez-Abe _eAuthor
245			_aWelfare and capitalism in postwar Japan / _cMargarita Estévez-Abe
260			_aCambridge, Mass: _bCambridge University Press, _cc2008
300			_axv, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24cm
505			_aRashomon: the Japanese welfare state in a comparative perspective Structural logics of welfare politics Historical patterns of structural logic in postwar Japan The rise of the Japanese social protection system in the 1950s Economic growth and Japan's selective welfare expansion Institutional complemetarities and the Japanese welfare capitalism The emergence of trouble in the 1970s Policy shifts in the 1990s: the emergence of European-style welfare politics The end of Japan's social protection as we know it: becoming like Britain?
520			_aThis book explains how postwar Japan managed to achieve a highly egalitarian form of capitalism despite meager social spending. Estevez-Abe develops an institutional, rational-choice model to solve this puzzle. She shows how Japan's electoral system generated incentives that led political actors to protect various groups that lost out in market competition. She explains how Japan's postwar welfare state relied upon various alternatives to orthodox social spending programs. The initial postwar success of Japan's political economy has given way to periods of crisis and reform. This book follows this story up to the present day. Estevez-Abe shows how the current electoral system renders obsolete the old form of social protection. She argues that institutionally Japan now resembles Britain and predicts that Japan's welfare system will also come to resemble Britain's. Japan thus faces a more market-oriented society and less equality
650			_aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economics Comparative
650			_aWelfare state Japan
650			_aPublic welfare Japan History
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