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Author Carroll, Myles, author.

Title The making of modern Japan : power, crisis, and the promise of transformation / by Myles Carroll
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (276 p.)
Series Studies in Critical Social Sciences Ser
New Scholarship in Political Economy
New scholarship in political economy.
Studies in critical social sciences.
Contents Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Analytical Approach -- 2 Outline of the Argument -- 3 Outline of the Chapters -- Chapter 2 Lineages of Japanese Political Economy -- 1 Creative Conservatism and the Developmental State: Japan's Post-war Boom -- 2 Institutional Approaches to the Study of Japanese Politics -- 3 The Long Decline: Theorizing Crisis in Heisei Japan -- 4 The Welfare State and Social Reproduction in Post-war Japan -- 5 Conclusion
Chapter 3 Towards a Gramscian Understanding of Japanese Political Economy -- 1 Historical Materialist Methodology -- 2 Hegemony -- 3 Hegemony and Hegemonic Order -- 4 Social Reproduction -- 5 Conditions for Hegemonic Order -- 6 Historic Bloc -- 7 Explaining Change: Conjunctural and Organic -- 8 Organic Crisis -- 9 World Order, Forms of State, Social Forces -- 10 Relations of Force -- 11 Caesarism, Passive Revolution and Trasformismo -- 12 Counter-hegemony and the (Post-) Modern Prince -- 13 Political Ecology -- 14 Towards a Gramscian Feminist Approach to the Japanese Post-war Order
15 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Post-war Hegemonic Order -- 1 The Post-war Hegemonic Order -- 2 Conditions of Post-war Hegemonic Order -- 2.1 Geopolitics: The Yoshida Doctrine and the US-Japan Security Treaty (Anpo) -- 2.2 Global Political Economy: The Bretton Woods System -- 2.3 The Electoral and Party System: The Rise of ldp Dominance -- 2.4 The State Form: The Rise of Bureaucracy-driven Governance -- 2.5 Production and Capital: Japanese Developmentalism and the Keiretsu -- 2.6 Production and Labour: Enterprise Unionism and Lifetime Employment
2.7 Production and the Petit Bourgeoisie: Clientelism and the Old Middle Class -- 2.8 Gender and the Family: Extended Families and the Gendered Division of Labor -- 2.9 Demography and Welfare: Young Society, Small Welfare State -- 2.10 Nation and Ideology: The Pacifist Nationalism of the Post-war Era -- 2.11 Environment and National Resources: Cheap Oil -- 3 The Post-war Japanese Historic Bloc -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Contradictions and Transitions of the Late Shōwa Era -- 1 Structural Changes to World Order -- 1.1 The Nixon Shocks -- 1.2 The Oil Shocks
1.3 American Trade Frictions and the Plaza Accord -- 2 Structural Demographic Changes -- 2.1 The Beginning of an Aging Society -- 2.2 The Decline of Extended Families -- 2.3 Rise of Women in the Workforce -- 3 Political Changes -- 4 Institutional Changes -- 4.1 The Heyday of the Kōenkai -- 4.2 The Rise of Factions and the parc -- 4.3 Growing Bureaucratic Influence: Zoku and Amakudari -- 4.4 Institutional Changes and Continuities in Japanese Business Relations -- 4.5 Lifetime Employment and the Dual System -- 4.6 Clientelism and the Construction State
Summary "In The Making of Modern Japan, Myles Carroll offers a sweeping account of post-war Japanese political economy, exploring the transition from the post-war boom to the crisis of today and the connections between these seemingly discrete periods. Carroll explores the multifarious international and domestic political, economic, social and cultural conditions that fortified Japan's post-war hegemonic order and enabled decades of prosperity and stability. Yet since the 1990s, a host of political, economic, social and cultural changes has left this same hegemonic order out of step with the realities of the contemporary world, a contradiction that has led to three decades of crisis in Japanese society. Can Japan make the bold changes required to reverse its decline?"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Description based upon print version of record
5 Implications of these Changes for Hegemonic Order
Subject Electronic books.
e-books.
Electronic books
Economic history
Politics and government
SUBJECT Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069408
Japan -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069556
Japan -- History -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069511
Subject Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004466531
9004466533