Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-256) and index.
Contents
Long continuities, radical shifts -- Patterns of political economy: a range of regimes -- Japan in the 1960s: conservative politics and economic growth -- From chaos to cohesion: formation of the conservative regime -- Transition and breakdown: an era of reconfigurations -- Japan in the 1990s: fragmented politics and economic turmoil -- Between adjustment and unraveling: protection and erosion of the old regime -- Regimes in a changing world economy.