The Emergence Of Welfare Society In Japan
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| Author | : Margarita Estevez-Abe |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2008-07-21 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1139471929 |
This book explains how postwar Japan managed to achieve a highly egalitarian form of capitalism despite meager social spending. Estevez-Abe develops an institutional, rational-choice model to solve this puzzle. She shows how Japan's electoral system generated incentives that led political actors to protect various groups that lost out in market competition. She explains how Japan's postwar welfare state relied upon various alternatives to orthodox social spending programs. The initial postwar success of Japan's political economy has given way to periods of crisis and reform. This book follows this story up to the present day. Estevez-Abe shows how the current electoral system renders obsolete the old form of social protection. She argues that institutionally Japan now resembles Britain and predicts that Japan's welfare system will also come to resemble Britain's. Japan thus faces a more market-oriented society and less equality.
| Author | : Mutsuko Takahashi |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
This work begins by covering the historical context of welfare policy in Japan since the end of the 19th century but includes social welfare practices as well as the policy and system itself. The focus of the work is on social relevance in analysing the social discourses on the politics of welfare in Japan, taking into account the broad range of social and political factors implicit in making sense of the politics of welfare.
| Author | : Gregory J. Kasza |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2018-07-05 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1501726633 |
One World of Welfare offers a systematic, comparative examination of Japan's welfare policies and a critical assessment of previous research. Gregory J. Kasza rejects the view that the Japanese welfare system is unique; he challenges the nearly universal belief that the postwar Japanese state neglected welfare to promote rapid economic growth; he rejects the claim that there is a regional welfare model in East Asia; and he uses the Japanese case to question the dominant framework for comparative welfare research. The author explores the relevance of both convergence and divergence theories for understanding the Japanese record and spotlights the importance of international influences on the timing and content of Japan's welfare policies. This book offers a fresh comparative template for research on Japanese public policy. Case studies of Japan have often exaggerated its distinctiveness. Comparative research documents points of similarity as well as difference; it unearths the foreign models that have swayed Japan's policymakers; and it reveals what others might learn from Japan's experience. Most of the welfare challenges that Japan has faced over the last century have resembled those confronting other nations, and the Japanese have often patterned their welfare policies after those of Western countries. Japan's welfare system must be understood within a broader pattern of global policy diffusion.
| Author | : John Creighton Campbell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 1998-09-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521571227 |
Compared to the rest of the world, Japan has a healthy population but pays relatively little for medical care. This book analyses how the health care works, and how it came into being. Taking a comparative perspective, the authors describe the politics of health care, the variety of providers, the universal health insurance system, and how the fee-schedule constrains costs at both the macro and micro levels. Special attention is paid to issues of quality and to the difficult problems of assuring adequate high-tech medicine and long-term care. Although the authors discuss the drawbacks to Japan's stringent cost-containment policy, they also keep in mind the possible implications for reform in the United States. Egalitarian values and a concern for 'balance' among constituents, the authors argue, are essential for cost containment as well as for access to health care.
| Author | : Mari Miura |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2012-10-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0801465486 |
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 the labor market allowed a high degree of labor market flexibility, which enabled Japan to achieve high employment rates as well as strong legal protections for regular workers. In recent years, conservatives gradually replaced the productivism and cooperatism that had resulted from earlier party politics with neoliberalism, which, in turn, hampered the effectiveness of the welfare through work system. 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.
| Author | : Nicholas Deakin |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Welfare |
| ISBN | : 9780415262897 |
| Author | : Yasushi Tanaka |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2014-11-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 131759763X |
This book compares two countries with striking parallels in economic and political outcomes, yet with some distinct features in terms of institutional structures, relative size, and culture. Therefore, this book forms a fruitful platform for the study of the similarities and differences in the economic and societal development of Japan and Finland. Despite their geographic distance from one another and the aforementioned differences, both countries experienced rather similar economic and societal development patterns after the Second World War. The study of these societies both individually and through commonalities will provide a unique perspective on the emergence of modern economies and institutions. The book provides comprehensive coverage on issues such as welfare state formation and society, security and military spending, education system, industrial development, international trade, governmental economic policies, energy solutions, and bubbles and their collapse; thus, issues typical for these countries, as well as most modern states, studied from a longitudinal perspective. The book aims to answer a fundamental question in social science: Why do there seem to be common trends and developmental paths among countries differing in size, culture, and economic structure? This book will provide insights for those seeking to decipher how the developments in their own countries came about and where they may be headed to.
| Author | : R. Vij |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2007-11-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 023028714X |
Challenging conventional thought on the nature of welfare and civil society in modern Japan, Ritu Vij offers an original theoretical and historical interpretation of both. Drawing upon a neo-Hegelian understanding of the formation of modern subjectivity in political economy, this book uncovers a specific pattern of welfare provision in Japan.
| Author | : Christian Aspalter |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 1009 |
| Release | : 2023-11-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1000995275 |
Developing countries may not have full-fledged welfare states like those we find in Europe, but certainly they have welfare state systems. For comparative social policy research, the term "welfare state systems" has many advantages, as there are numerous different types/models of welfare state systems around the world. This revised and expanded second edition brings together leading experts to discuss social policy in 32 countries/regions around the world: from the most advanced welfare state systems in Scandinavia and Western Central Europe to the developing powers of Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Russia. Country-specific chapters provide in general a historical overview, discuss major characteristics of the welfare state system, and analyze country-specific problems, as well as critical current and future trends for further discussions, while also providing one (additional) major focal point/issue for greater in-depth analysis. Including new country case studies on Mali, South Africa, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Vietnam, this book is reframed around urgent contemporary issues including migration and rising social inequalities, LGBTQIA+ rights, universal basic income, and transboundary social policy. It will be of great interest to all scholars and students of social policy, social development, development economists and health economists, experts in public policy, health policy (including mental health policy), housing policy, education policy, family policy, cis- and trans-gender policy, migration and population policy, sociology, social work, anthropology, as well as social policy and public policy makers and administrators.
| Author | : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1984-06-29 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780521277860 |
The cultural practices and cultural meaning of health care in urban Japan.
