{"product_id":"the-making-of-modern-japan-power-crisis-and-the-promise-of-transformation-9789004466517","title":"The Making of Modern Japan: Power, Crisis, and the Promise of Transformation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn The Making of Modern Japan, 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.     Carroll 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS    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\t    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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210825752919,"sku":"9789004466517","price":163.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-making-of-modern-japan-power-crisis-and-the-promise-of-transformation-9789004466517","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}