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Mari Miura - Welfare through Work: Conservative Ideas, Partisan Dynamics, and Social Protection in Japan - 9780801451058 - V9780801451058
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Welfare through Work: Conservative Ideas, Partisan Dynamics, and Social Protection in Japan

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Description for Welfare through Work: Conservative Ideas, Partisan Dynamics, and Social Protection in Japan Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 15, 8 charts, 7 tables. BIC Classification: JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.

High economic growth and relatively equitable distribution were among the most conspicuous characteristics of the postwar Japanese political economy. The lure of the Japanese model, however, has faded since the 1990s. Growth is in short supply and equality a thing of the past. In Welfare through Work, Mari Miura looks in depth at Japan's social protection system as a factor in the contemporary malaise of the Japanese political economy.

The Japanese social protection system should be understood as a system of "welfare through work," Miura suggests, because employment protection has functionally substituted for income maintenance. A gendered dual system in ... Read more

In Miura's view, the dynamics of partisan competition fostered ideational renewal, just as the political visions and ideologies of the governing party strongly affected the design of the social protection system. In the scenario Miura describes, the partisan dynamics since the 1990s resulted in the policy change that further undermined the social protection system, and the ensuing disruption has been felt throughout Japan.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801451058
SKU
V9780801451058
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-11

About Mari Miura
Mari Miura is Professor of Political Science at Sophia University in Tokyo. She is coeditor of The Lost Decade and Beyond: Japanese Politics in the 1990s.

Reviews for Welfare through Work: Conservative Ideas, Partisan Dynamics, and Social Protection in Japan
Mari Miura's book presents an in-depth and detailed approach to the politics of social protection in times of political and economic challenges. This book turns our attention to controversial but important social and political tasks not only in Japan but also in many advanced industrialized countries, most of which have confronted rising inequalities over the past few decades. It will ... Read more

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