Welfare and capitalism in postwar Japan
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | (Cambridge studies in comparative politics)
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Table of Contents:
- Rashomon: 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?