The Making of Modern Japan - Power, Crisis, and the Promise of Transformation

In The Making of Modern Japan, Myles Carroll offers a sweeping account of post-war Japanese political economy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF TABLE AND FIGURES

1. Introduction
 Analytical approach
 Outline of the argument
 Outline of chapters
2. Lineages of Japanese political economy
 Creative conservatism and the developmental state: Japan’s post-war boom
 Institutional approaches to the study of Japanese politics
 The long decline: Theorizing crisis in Heisei Japan
 The welfare state and social reproduction in post-war Japan
 Conclusion
3. Towards a Gramscian understanding of Japanese political economy
 Historical materialist methodology
 Hegemony
 Hegemony and hegemonic order
 Social reproduction
 Conditions for hegemonic order
 Historic bloc
 Explaining change: Conjunctural and organic
 Organic crisis
 World order, forms of state, social forces
 Relations of force
 Caesarism, passive revolution and trasformismo
 Political ecology
 Towards a Gramscian feminist approach to the Japanese post-war order
 Conclusion
4. The post-war hegemonic order
 The post-war hegemonic order
 Conditions of post-war hegemonic order
 Geopolitics: The Yoshida Doctrine and the US-Japan Security Treaty (Anpo)
 Global political economy: The Bretton Woods System
 The electoral and party system: The rise of LDP dominance
 The state form: The rise of bureaucracy-driven governance
 Production and capital: Japanese developmentalism and the keiretsu
 Production and labour: Enterprise unionism and lifetime employment
 Production and the petit bourgeoisie: Clientelism and the old middle class
 Gender and the family: Extended families and the gender division of labour
 Demography and welfare: Young society, small welfare state
 Nation and ideology: The pacifist nationalism of the post-war era
 Environment and national resources: Cheap oil
 The post-war Japanese historic bloc
 Conclusion
5. Contradictions and transitions of the Shōwa era
 Structural changes to world order
 The Nixon shocks
 The oil shocks
 American trade frictions and the Plaza Accord
 Structural demographic changes
 The beginning of an aging society
 The decline of extended families
 The rise of women in the workforce
 Political changes
 Institutional changes
 The heyday of the kōenkai
 The rise of factions and the PARC
 Institutional changes and continuities in Japanese business relations
 Lifetime employment and the dual system
 Clientelism and the construction state
 Implications of these changes for hegemonic order
 Economic implications
 Political implications
 Social implications
 Conclusion
6. The organic crisis of the Heisei era
 Historical background to the crisis
 1989-1993: Two electoral shocks
 1993-1996: Coalition governments, political reform
 1996-2001: LDP’s return to power, administrative and financial reform
 2001-2006: Rise of Koizumi, postal privatization
 2006-2009: LDP impasse
 2009-2012: Rise and fall of the DPJ
 Conditions of the crisis
 Geopolitics: Security Alliance in a post-Cold War world
 Global political economy: Japan in a global neoliberal era
 The electoral and party system: Crisis, reform, and the end of LDP rule
 The state form: Institutional decay and administrative reform
 Production and capital: The Americanization of Japanese capitalism?
 Production and labour: Deregulation and the rise of the working poor
 Production and the petit bourgeoisie: End of the pork-barrel system?
 Gender and the family: The end of the male breadwinner model and shōshika
 Demography and welfare: The rise of the ‘pension state’
 Nation and ideology: ‘Normal country’ or tan’itsu minzoku?
 Political ecology: Climate change, the nuclear turn and 3/11
 Implications of the crisis
 Summary of the economic accumulation crisis
 Summary of the political legitimation crisis
 Summary of the social reproduction crisis
 Conclusion
7. Caesarism, passive revolution and the return of the LDP under Abe
 Abe’s political comeback
 Breaking the deadlock: The Caesarism of “Abenomics”
 Breaking the deadlock through expansionary Keynesian policy
 Breaking the deadlock through neoliberal economic reform
 Breaking the deadlock through welfare state expansion
 Implications of Caesarism under Abe
 The real Abe? Passive revolution, militarism and soft authoritarianism
 Asserting control over the LDP
 Passive revolution in administrative reform
 Passive revolution in domestic security policy
 Abe’s passive revolution
 Consequences of Abe’s reign for the hegemonic order
 Capital accumulation
 Political legitimation
 Social reproduction
 Conclusion
8. Whither post-Abe Japan? Four scenarios for the future
 The neo-conservative option
 Overview
 Relations of force behind neo-conservatism
 The neo-conservative solution to organic crisis
 Challenges and contradictions of neo-conservatism
 The neo-liberal path
 Overview
 Relations of force behind neo-liberalism
 The neo-liberal solution to organic crisis
 Challenges and contradictions of neo-liberalism
 Back to the future? Neo-communitarianism
 Overview
 Relations of force behind neo-liberalism
 The neo-liberal solution to organic crisis
 Challenges and contradictions of neo-liberalism
 Counter-hegemony and a democratic socialist future
 Overview
 Relations of force behind democratic socialism
 The democratic socialist solution to organic crisis
 Challenges and contradictions of democratic socialism
 Conclusion
9. Conclusion
 Contradictions for hegemonic order: Political legitimation
 Contradictions for hegemonic order: Capital accumulation
 Contradictions for hegemonic order: Social reproduction
 Overarching theoretical implications of the argument
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Myles Carroll is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Core Research at Ochanomizu University, with a Ph.D. in Political Science (2020) from York University. He has published many articles on social reproduction and political economy in post-war Japan

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In The Making of Modern Japan, Myles Carroll offers a sweeping account of post-war Japanese political economy.

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Produktdetails

• Autoren: Myles Carroll
• Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 25.10.2022
• EAN: 9781642597974
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-797-4
• Seiten: 266
• Illustration: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Serien: Studies in Critical Social Sci; Studies in Critical Social Sciences; Studies in Critical Social Science
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Management; HISTORY / Asia / General, Asian History, japan; government; economy