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Welfare society and welfare state in the Japanese-type discourse on civil society

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  • Nanako Fujita

    (Nagoya City University)

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This essay is a reexamination of the development of Japanese-type civil society theory from the analytical perspective of “welfare.” In postwar Japan a company-centric society was formed and dramatic economic growth was achieved, when the Japanese-type civil society theory came to uphold a center-left political ideology that examined the deficiencies of the Western–European-type welfare state and welfare state theory in Japan. But the welfare theory in Japanese-type civil society theory ultimately lacked a positive welfare state theory. From the 1970s to the 1980s, we could see the influence of “Japanese-type welfare society theory” that sought to bypass the welfare state and go directly to a welfare society, while Kiyoaki Hirata’s adoption of Gramsci could be positioned as an turning point in the history of this discourse where Japanese-type civil society theory crossed swords with “new civil society theory.”

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  • Nanako Fujita, 2019. "Welfare society and welfare state in the Japanese-type discourse on civil society," Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 503-521, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eaiere:v:16:y:2019:i:2:d:10.1007_s40844-019-00135-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s40844-019-00135-3
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    Keywords

    Civil society; Welfare state; Welfare society; Japanese-type; Régulation;
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    JEL classification:

    • B2 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925
    • B3 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals
    • H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
    • N3 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy

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