Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan

by Kent E. Calder

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691023387
• ISBN13: 9780691023380
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"