
Syncretism
The Politics of Economic Restructuring and System Reform in Japan
Asia/Pacific Research Center, Div of The Institute for International Studies (Publisher)
Published on 31. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-931368-23-0 (ISBN)
Description
Japan's first decade of the twenty-first century was both disappointing and bewildering, producing wildly contrasting evaluations. Many have come to call this period the "second lost decade," characterized by policy paralysis and overall lackluster economic growth. For those studying Japan more closely, however, the same decades reveal nothing short of a broad transformation numerous core tenets of Japan's postwar political economy. How can we best capture this transformation?
Each chapter in this volume examines a different aspect of Japan's political economy within a longer historical trajectory, from multiple angles, to depict a flexible but resilient system. We characterize Japan's process of change as syncretism-practices foreign, domestic, old and new were selectively adopted, mixed and matched, along the way creating a new and unique hybrid system.
Each chapter in this volume examines a different aspect of Japan's political economy within a longer historical trajectory, from multiple angles, to depict a flexible but resilient system. We characterize Japan's process of change as syncretism-practices foreign, domestic, old and new were selectively adopted, mixed and matched, along the way creating a new and unique hybrid system.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stanford
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
398 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-931368-23-0 (9781931368230)
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Kenji Kushida is the 2010-2011 Walter H. Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Kay Shimizu is assistant professor in Columbia University's Department of Political Science, USA. Jean C. Oi is William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics in the department of political science and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, USA.