The Social Basis of Developmental Capitalism in Japan: From Post-war Mobilization to Current Stress Symptoms and Future Disintegration

Chiavacci, David

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“…In order to understand the new directions in Japanese foreign policy in the last decade, a quick assessment of the redefinition of Japan after its expansion wars defeat, following the 1945 detonation of the two atomic bombs (Chiavacci 2007), is required. Due to the complete failure of the previous strategy of gaining a dominant position in East Asia, a leading role in the world system as a military superpower was no longer sustainable.…”

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China-US Competition

2023

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The present introductory chapter shall set the stage for the edited volume by broadly sketching the contours of the intense strategic competition between China and the United States and its potential to reshape Asia-Pacific and the world order. Briefly, this chapter will also allude to the future probable fallouts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its potential for redrawing geopolitical coordinates and allegiances, for the countries that are in the focus of the present volume.

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2023

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“…Third, conventional wisdom does not adequately take into consideration the social embeddedness of Japan's political economy. Its success up to the 1990s and its crisis since the 1990s are connected to what we might call the "Japanese way of life" as a social contract between Japan's elites and population (Chiavacci 2007). In this ideal life course, stability and security are priorities, and it is expected that high educational attainments will be translated into stable employment and internal careers in the cooperative and protective community of the employer.…”

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Japanese Political Economy Revisited

2020

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This introductory article to the special issue on "Japanese Political Economy Revisited: Diverse Corporate Change, Institutional Transformation, and Abenomics" starts with a short summaryof the changing perceptions of Japan's political economy from its meteoric rise as worldwide leading model in the 1970s and 1980s to its demotiontoa problem and reform case since the later 1990s. Based on this overview, it identifies some striking issue and open questions in this conventional view of Japan's political economy as problem and the high expectations on Abenomics as Japan's current economic reform programme. Then we discuss the articles of the special issue and their new contributionsto a better understanding of the developments at the corporate level as well as institutional change and economic reforms at the macro level in the last two decades. Finally, this introductory article ends with a short outlineof a new research programme and four central research questions about the Japanese political economy.

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“…While the LME firms, exemplified in the US, ‘coordinate their activities primarily via hierarchies and competitive market arrangements’, the CME firms, exemplified in Germany, ‘depend more heavily on non-market relationships to coordinate their endeavors with others actors’ (Hall and Soskice, 2001: 8). The VOC approach tends to interpret other emerging capitalist models as minor variants of LME or CME or other intermediary configurations, such as Japan's developmental capitalism (Chiavacci, 2007) and the former Soviet-type countries’ post-Communist capitalism (Lane and Myant, 2007). A recent tentative project conducted by Schmitter and Todor (2014) further broadens the scope of the VOC research by referring to VOC in terms of types of democracy (TOD).…”

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State Capitalism and Chinese Food Security Governance

Lin¹

2017

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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Since the financial crisis of 2008–9, how a state can play a more active role in correcting market failure has become a central topic in political economy. Thus, academia is again discussing state capitalism seriously. Contemporary state capitalism assumes state intervention in markets is becoming more multifaceted. Consequently, traditional state-owned enterprises exist alongside new government-favored actors, such as privately owned national champions and sovereign wealth funds, intervening in markets. This coalition helps the state achieve its security, political, economic, social, and nationalistic goals more efficiently. Its growing power in markets also heralds the return of state capitalism. This paper uses state capitalism theories to re-interpret China's food security governance. The three preliminary findings are as follows. First, China's food security governance is typically operated under state capitalism, which has successfully managed China's foodavailability, though not without some corruption, but has weakened its foodaccessibility. Second, using state capitalism to manage China's foodsafetyhas been impeded, so the effects remain to be seen. Third, state capitalism has successfully improved thestabilityof the food supply and demand in China, but its agricultural business branching-out strategy has worried the international community and should be observed further.

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The Social Basis of Developmental Capitalism in Japan: From Post-war Mobilization to Current Stress Symptoms and Future Disintegration

Cited by 14 publications

References 19 publications

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Japanese Political Economy Revisited

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