{"product_id":"the-making-of-modern-japan-power-crisis-and-the-promise-of-transformation-9781642597974","title":"The Making of Modern Japan: Power, Crisis, and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Making of Modern Japan\u003c\/em\u003e, Myles Carroll offers a sweeping account of post-war Japanese political economy, exploring the transition from the post-war boom to the crisis of today and the connections between these seemingly discrete periods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarroll explores the multifarious international and domestic political, economic, social, and cultural conditions that fortified Japan's post-war hegemonic order and enabled decades of prosperity and stability. Yet since the 1990s, a host of political, economic, social and cultural changes has left this same hegemonic order out of step with the realities of the contemporary world, a contradiction that has led to three decades of crisis in Japanese society. Can Japan make the bold changes required to reverse its decline? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLIST OF TABLE AND FIGURES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Analytical approach\u003cbr\u003e Outline of the argument\u003cbr\u003e Outline of chapters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Lineages of Japanese political economy\u003cbr\u003e Creative conservatism and the developmental state: Japan’s post-war boom\u003cbr\u003e Institutional approaches to the study of Japanese politics\u003cbr\u003e The long decline: Theorizing crisis in Heisei Japan\u003cbr\u003e The welfare state and social reproduction in post-war Japan\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Towards a Gramscian understanding of Japanese political economy\u003cbr\u003e Historical materialist methodology\u003cbr\u003e Hegemony\u003cbr\u003e Hegemony and hegemonic order\u003cbr\u003e Social reproduction\u003cbr\u003e Conditions for hegemonic order\u003cbr\u003e Historic bloc\u003cbr\u003e Explaining change: Conjunctural and organic\u003cbr\u003e Organic crisis\u003cbr\u003e World order, forms of state, social forces\u003cbr\u003e Relations of force\u003cbr\u003e Caesarism, passive revolution and trasformismo\u003cbr\u003e Political ecology\u003cbr\u003e Towards a Gramscian feminist approach to the Japanese post-war order\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. The post-war hegemonic order\u003cbr\u003e The post-war hegemonic order\u003cbr\u003e Conditions of post-war hegemonic order\u003cbr\u003e  Geopolitics: The Yoshida Doctrine and the US-Japan Security Treaty (Anpo)\u003cbr\u003e  Global political economy: The Bretton Woods System\u003cbr\u003e  The electoral and party system: The rise of LDP dominance\u003cbr\u003e  The state form: The rise of bureaucracy-driven governance\u003cbr\u003e  Production and capital: Japanese developmentalism and the keiretsu\u003cbr\u003e  Production and labour: Enterprise unionism and lifetime employment\u003cbr\u003e  Production and the petit bourgeoisie: Clientelism and the old middle class\u003cbr\u003e  Gender and the family: Extended families and the gender division of labour\u003cbr\u003e  Demography and welfare: Young society, small welfare state\u003cbr\u003e  Nation and ideology: The pacifist nationalism of the post-war era\u003cbr\u003e  Environment and national resources: Cheap oil\u003cbr\u003e The post-war Japanese historic bloc\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Contradictions and transitions of the Shōwa era\u003cbr\u003e Structural changes to world order\u003cbr\u003e  The Nixon shocks\u003cbr\u003e  The oil shocks\u003cbr\u003e  American trade frictions and the Plaza Accord\u003cbr\u003e Structural demographic changes\u003cbr\u003e  The beginning of an aging society\u003cbr\u003e  The decline of extended families\u003cbr\u003e  The rise of women in the workforce\u003cbr\u003e Political changes\u003cbr\u003e Institutional changes\u003cbr\u003e  The heyday of the kōenkai\u003cbr\u003e  The rise of factions and the PARC\u003cbr\u003e  Institutional changes and continuities in Japanese business relations\u003cbr\u003e  Lifetime employment and the dual system\u003cbr\u003e  Clientelism and the construction state\u003cbr\u003e Implications of these changes for hegemonic order\u003cbr\u003e  Economic implications\u003cbr\u003e  Political implications\u003cbr\u003e  Social implications\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. The organic crisis of the Heisei era\u003cbr\u003e Historical background to the crisis\u003cbr\u003e  1989-1993: Two electoral shocks\u003cbr\u003e  1993-1996: Coalition governments, political reform\u003cbr\u003e  1996-2001: LDP’s return to power, administrative and financial reform\u003cbr\u003e  2001-2006: Rise of Koizumi, postal privatization\u003cbr\u003e  2006-2009: LDP impasse\u003cbr\u003e  2009-2012: Rise and fall of the DPJ\u003cbr\u003e Conditions of the crisis\u003cbr\u003e  Geopolitics: Security Alliance in a post-Cold War world\u003cbr\u003e  Global political economy: Japan in a global neoliberal era\u003cbr\u003e  The electoral and party system: Crisis, reform, and the end of LDP rule\u003cbr\u003e  The state form: Institutional decay and administrative reform\u003cbr\u003e  Production and capital: The Americanization of Japanese capitalism?\u003cbr\u003e  Production and labour: Deregulation and the rise of the working poor\u003cbr\u003e  Production and the petit bourgeoisie: End of the pork-barrel system?\u003cbr\u003e  Gender and the family: The end of the male breadwinner model and shōshika\u003cbr\u003e  Demography and welfare: The rise of the ‘pension state’\u003cbr\u003e  Nation and ideology: ‘Normal country’ or tan’itsu minzoku?\u003cbr\u003e  Political ecology: Climate change, the nuclear turn and 3\/11\u003cbr\u003e Implications of the crisis\u003cbr\u003e  Summary of the economic accumulation crisis\u003cbr\u003e  Summary of the political legitimation crisis\u003cbr\u003e  Summary of the social reproduction crisis\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Caesarism, passive revolution and the return of the LDP under Abe\u003cbr\u003e Abe’s political comeback\u003cbr\u003e Breaking the deadlock: The Caesarism of “Abenomics”\u003cbr\u003e  Breaking the deadlock through expansionary Keynesian policy\u003cbr\u003e  Breaking the deadlock through neoliberal economic reform\u003cbr\u003e  Breaking the deadlock through welfare state expansion\u003cbr\u003e  Implications of Caesarism under Abe\u003cbr\u003e The real Abe? Passive revolution, militarism and soft authoritarianism\u003cbr\u003e  Asserting control over the LDP\u003cbr\u003e  Passive revolution in administrative reform\u003cbr\u003e  Passive revolution in domestic security policy\u003cbr\u003e  Abe’s passive revolution\u003cbr\u003e Consequences of Abe’s reign for the hegemonic order\u003cbr\u003e  Capital accumulation\u003cbr\u003e  Political legitimation\u003cbr\u003e  Social reproduction\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Whither post-Abe Japan? Four scenarios for the future\u003cbr\u003e The neo-conservative option\u003cbr\u003e  Overview\u003cbr\u003e  Relations of force behind neo-conservatism\u003cbr\u003e  The neo-conservative solution to organic crisis\u003cbr\u003e  Challenges and contradictions of neo-conservatism\u003cbr\u003e The neo-liberal path\u003cbr\u003e  Overview\u003cbr\u003e  Relations of force behind neo-liberalism\u003cbr\u003e  The neo-liberal solution to organic crisis\u003cbr\u003e  Challenges and contradictions of neo-liberalism\u003cbr\u003e Back to the future? Neo-communitarianism\u003cbr\u003e  Overview\u003cbr\u003e  Relations of force behind neo-liberalism\u003cbr\u003e  The neo-liberal solution to organic crisis\u003cbr\u003e  Challenges and contradictions of neo-liberalism\u003cbr\u003e Counter-hegemony and a democratic socialist future\u003cbr\u003e  Overview\u003cbr\u003e  Relations of force behind democratic socialism\u003cbr\u003e  The democratic socialist solution to organic crisis\u003cbr\u003e  Challenges and contradictions of democratic socialism\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Contradictions for hegemonic order: Political legitimation\u003cbr\u003e Contradictions for hegemonic order: Capital accumulation\u003cbr\u003e Contradictions for hegemonic order: Social reproduction\u003cbr\u003e Overarching theoretical implications of the argument\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBIBLIOGRAPHY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINDEX \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020204507479,"sku":"9781642597974","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781642597974.jpg?v=1750782755","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-making-of-modern-japan-power-crisis-and-the-promise-of-transformation-9781642597974","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}