Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan

by Margarita Estevez-Abe

Book Overview

This 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, if only for their own self-interested reasons, various groups that lost out in market competition. She explains how Japan's postwar welfare state...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521722217
• ISBN13: 9780521722216
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"