 | Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy Subjects: Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1945–; Japan -- Economic policy -- 1945-1989; Japan -- Economic policy -- 1989–; Economic history -- 1945–; 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... T. J. Pempel is Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, Professor of Political Science, and holder of the Il Han New Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or editor of many books, including The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis and Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region (both from Cornell). |
