Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Architecture and Beyond

Pempel, T. J.

Routledge

Lee, Chung Min

Patterns Of Japanese Policy Making: Experiences from Higher Education

Reference

Policymaking in Contemporary Japan

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Cornell Univ Pr

The Liberal Democratic Party, which dominated postwar Japan, lost power in the early 1990s. During that same period, Japan's once stellar economy suffered stagnation and collapse. Now a well-known commentator on contemporary Japan traces the political dynamics of the country to determine the reasons for these changes and the extent to which its political and economic systems have been permanently altered.
T. J. Pempel contrasts the political economy of Japan during two decades: the 1960s, when the nation experienced conservative political dominance and high growth, and the early 1990s, when the "bubble economy" collapsed and electoral politics changed. The different dynamics of the two periods indicate a regime shift in which the present political economy deviates profoundly from earlier forms. This shift has involved a transformation in socioeconomic alliances, political and economic institutions, and public policy profile, rendering Japanese politics far less predictable than in the past. Pempel weighs the Japanese case against comparative data from the United States, Great Britain, Sweden, and Italy to show how unusual Japan's political economy had been in the 1960s. 
Regime Shift suggests that Japan's present troubles are deeply rooted in the economy's earlier success. It is a much-anticipated work that offers an original framework for understanding the critical changes that have affected political and economic institutions in Japan.

Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

Business & Money

Economics

Cornell University Press

Uncommon Democracies: The One-Party Dominant Regimes

Politics & Government

Japan: The Dilemmas of Success (Headline Series)

History

Americas

Foreign Policy Assn

Chung Min Lee

Taylor & Francis Group

A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

A Region of Regimes traces the relationship between politics and economics--power and prosperity--in the Asia-Pacific in the decades since the Second World War. This book complicates familiar and incomplete narratives of the "Asian economic miracle" to show radically different paths leading to high growth for many but abject failure for some. T. J. Pempel analyzes policies and data from ten East Asian countries, categorizing them into three distinct regime types, each historically contingent and the product of specific configurations of domestic institutions, socio-economic resources, and external support. Pempel identifies Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as developmental regimes, showing how each then diverged due to domestic and international forces. North Korea, Myanmar, and the Philippines (under Marcos) comprise "rapacious regimes" in this analysis, while Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand form "ersatz developmental regimes." Uniquely, China emerges as an evolving hybrid of all three regime types. A Region of Regimes concludes by showing how the shifting interactions of these regimes have profoundly shaped the Asia-Pacific region and the globe across the postwar era.

Review "T. J. Pempel, one of our leading scholars on Japan in its regional and international context, has written a wide-ranging book on the political economy of the post-war Asia–Pacific." ― The Developing Economies"T.J. Pempel offers a major theoretical and empirical update to [the "East Asia miracle"]. This book will be of great help for readers to grasp East Asia's post-war shared transformation in a theoretically rich perspective." ― Global Asia Product Description A Region of Regimes traces the relationship between politics and economics―power and prosperity―in the Asia-Pacific in the decades since the Second World War. This book complicates familiar and incomplete narratives of the "Asian economic miracle" to show radically different paths leading to high growth for many but abject failure for some. T. J. Pempel analyzes policies and data from ten East Asian countries, categorizing them into three distinct regime types, each historically contingent and the product of specific configurations of domestic institutions, socio-economic resources, and external support. Pempel identifies Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as developmental regimes, showing how each then diverged due to domestic and international forces. North Korea, Myanmar, and the Philippines (under Marcos) comprise "rapacious regimes" in this analysis, while Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand form "ersatz developmental regimes." Uniquely, China emerges as an evolving hybrid of all three regime types. A Region of Regimes concludes by showing how the shifting interactions of these regimes have profoundly shaped the Asia-Pacific region and the globe across the postwar era. Review "A Region of Regimes tells the cumulative regional story of East Asia's economic metamorphosis, accounting for both successes and failures, and unpacking vital interconnections among national, global and regional dynamics. Well organized and clearly written, it makes significant contributions to several fields: East Asia's political economy, the economicsecurity nexus in international politics, China's economic power, and US strategies in the Asia-Pacific." -- Evelyn Goh, Australian National University, author of The Struggle for Order: Hierarchy, Hegemony, and Transition in Post-Cold War East Asia About the Author T. J. Pempel is the Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author or editor of twenty-four books, including Regime Shift and Two Crises, Different Outcomes.

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