Estevez-Abe traces Japan's highly egalitarian form of capitalism to the electoral strategies of its politicians. She analyzes how the current electoral system renders obsolete the old form of welfare capitalism creating a more market-driven society with less equality.
Estevez-Abe traces Japan's highly egalitarian form of capitalism to the electoral strategies of its politicians. She analyzes how the current electoral system renders obsolete the old form of welfare capitalism creating a more market-driven society with less equality.
Margarita Estevez-Abe is currently Associate Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. She has also taught at the University of Minnesota, served as a research associate at Keio University in Japan, and worked for a senior Japanese policy advisor. She co-authored Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State, in Peter Hall and David Soskice eds., The Varieties of Capitalism (2001) and Japan's Shift Toward A Westminster System, in Asian Survey (2006). She is also the author of Negotiating Welfare Reforms: Actors and Institutions in Japan, in Sven Steinmo and Bo Rothstein eds., Institutionalism and Welfare Reforms (2002) and State-Society Partnership in Japan: A Case Study of Social Welfare Provision, in Susan Pharr and Frank Schwartz eds., The State of Civil Society in Japan (2003).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Rashomon: the Japanese welfare state in a comparative perspective 2. Structural logics of welfare politics 3. Historical patterns of structural logic in postwar Japan 4. The rise of the Japanese social protection system in the 1950s 5. Economic growth and Japan's selective welfare expansion 6. Institutional complemetarities and the Japanese welfare capitalism 7. The emergence of trouble in the 1970s n8. Policy shifts in the 1990s: the emergence of European-style welfare politics 9. The end of Japan's social protection as we know it: becoming like Britain?
1. Rashomon: the Japanese welfare state in a comparative perspective 2. Structural logics of welfare politics 3. Historical patterns of structural logic in postwar Japan 4. The rise of the Japanese social protection system in the 1950s 5. Economic growth and Japan's selective welfare expansion 6. Institutional complemetarities and the Japanese welfare capitalism 7. The emergence of trouble in the 1970s n8. Policy shifts in the 1990s: the emergence of European-style welfare politics 9. The end of Japan's social protection as we know it: becoming like Britain?
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