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Democracy and Economic Growth: The Japanese Experience

In: Democracy and Development

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  • Michio Morishima

    (London School of Economics and Political Science)

  • Bruce Cumings

    (University of Chicago)

Abstract

To tackle the subject of democracy and development, I use an empirical case studies approach, rather than the usual philosophical or axiomatic approach, which logically derives elements of development or deterioration from the assumed set of axioms which defines democracy. I have taken Japan after the Meiji Revolution of 1867–8 as an example, and observe her strong development, both economic and cultural, in the period up to her surrender to the Allied Forces in the Second World War as well as in the post-war period. I shall also observe that the polity and the economic structure which made this development possible was neither purely democratic nor purely undemocratic but a hybrid that was democratic in some aspects and undemocratic in others.

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  • Michio Morishima & Bruce Cumings, 1995. "Democracy and Economic Growth: The Japanese Experience," International Economic Association Series, in: Amiya Kumar Bagchi (ed.), Democracy and Development, chapter 5, pages 138-164, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-24076-0_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-24076-0_5
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