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 of a key dimension of Japanese political life to
appear in English this decade."--David Williams, Japan Times
"Historically dense and conceptually rich.... Forces] readers'
attention to the domestic underpinnings of Japanese foreign
policy."--Donald S. Zagoria, Foreign Affairs "Punctures the myth of
Japan Inc. as a cool, rational monolith...."--Kathleen Newland,
Millennium "A bold reinterpretation of Japanese politics that will
force us to rethink many of our current assumptions and will
influence our research agenda."--Steven R. Reed, Journal of
Japanese Studies
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