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Poverty, Equality, and Growth : The Politics of Economic Need in Postwar Japan / Deborah J. Milly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milly, Deborah J., 1952- author.
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 174.
- Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection ISBN: 9789004407077.
- Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 174
- Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic assistance, Domestic--Japan.
- Economic assistance, Domestic.
- Income distribution--Japan.
- Income distribution.
- Poverty.
- Japan.
- Poverty--Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- The Politics of Economic Need in Postwar Japan
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2002.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In striking contrast to the large indigent population in Japan in the 1950s, very few Japanese live in poverty today. This book explains the Japanese government's decision to respond to poverty by promoting equality as the basis for a social compromise. Milly argues that to account for why and how political actors crafted a program that won acceptance, we must look beyond them and identify how they relied on knowledge and normative arguments. This book straddles theoretical fault lines in comparative politics by exploring the interactions among choice, language, knowledge, and institutions in policy processes, and has implications for the ongoing debate between proponents of rational choice theory as a universal explanation for the decisions of political actors and those who focus on historically or culturally specific conditions.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- An Essay on Accommodation
- The State, Economic Growth, and Societal Conflict
- Principled Policy Development Under the Occupation
- The Politics of Poverty in the 1950s
- Integrating Social Protections with Economic Management
- Knowledge of Poverty at the Top
- Negotiating Normative Principles
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Harvard East Asian Monographs.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Poverty, Equality, and Growth: The Politics of Economic Need in Postwar Japan,
- ISBN:
- 9781684173181
- 9780674009585
- OCLC:
- 1001953816
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781684173181 DOI
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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