The making of modern Japan : power, crisis, and the promise of transformation / by Myles Carroll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carroll, Myles, author.

Contributor:

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences Ser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Economic conditions--1945-.

Japan.

Economic conditions.

Japan--Politics and government--1945-.

Politics and government.

Japan--History--1945-.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

System Details:

text file

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 ShMwa 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 KMenkai

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

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5 Implications of these Changes for Hegemonic Order.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Carroll, Myles The Making of Modern Japan

ISBN:

9004466533

9789004466531

Publisher Number:

99989761593

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