Screen LibraryWelfare and capitalism in postwar Japan
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Cambridge studies in comparative politics |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 340 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780521856935 (hdbk.) 0521856930 (hdbk.) 9780521722216 (pbk.) 0521722217 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | F131 |
| CLC: |
F131.31 D731.37 |
| Call Number: | F131.31/E799 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-327) and index. 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? |