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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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'Ritu Vij shows the Japanese a new way of seeing themselves, a way that blocks the facile escape to claims of cultural uniqueness. She richly analyzes and locates Japan in the context of late modernity. More than a major contribution to Japan studies, the book is a solid treatise on comparative political economy. How do states and markets contribute to individual well-being? To answer, Japanese Modernity and Welfare articulates the centrality of subjectivity in structuring material life and opens up new horizons for understanding the vicissitudes of civil life.'- Masaru Tamamoto, Senior Fellow, The Japan Institute of International Affairs, Japan.
'This is a pathbreaking book that asks fresh and searching questions both at the theoretical level as it analyses relationships between the capitalist state, civil society, welfare and modernist notions of subjectivity, and at the empirical level as it uniquely explores these issues in the context of a major non-western advanced capitalist economy - Japan.' - John Clammer, Professor of Comparative Sociology and Asian Studies, Sophia University, Japan.
'The argument is new and insightful, a different - and probably much more accurate - take on the Japanese welfare state than anything we have had before...the chapter on the era of welfare reform gives one of the best pictures of the consequences of Japan's long period of slow growth that I have seen.' - Craig N. Murphy, M. Margaret Ball Professor of InternationalRelations, Wellesley College, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Japanese Modernity and Welfare
Book Subtitle: State, Civil Society and Self in Contemporary Japan
Authors: Ritu Vij
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287143
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Ritu Vij 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1544-3Published: 13 November 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51226-3Published: 13 November 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28714-3Published: 13 November 2007
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 270
Topics: Asian Politics, International Relations, Politics of the Welfare State, International Political Economy, Social Care, Political Science