01711nam a2200229Ia 4500 CTU_99653 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 320 C146 Calder, Kent E. Crisis and compensation : Public policy and political stability in Japan, 1949-1986 Kent E. Calder Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 1988 Contents: 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 Japan,Nhật Bản Politics and government,Chính trị và chính phủ 1945- Tuyến Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ