Institutional inertia, adjustment, and change: Japan as a case of a coordinated market economy

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 460-479

  Chen, Ling ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinated market economy; Institutional adaptation; Institutional change; Japanese capitalism; Variety of capitalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749119752     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290801931404     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Amsden, A. (1989) Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. Boyer, R. (2003) 'The Embedded Innovation Systems of Germany and Japan: Distinctive Features and Futures', in K.Yamamura and W. Streeck (eds) The End of Diversity? Prospects for German and Japanese Capitalism, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
3. Endo, S. (2001) 'The Japanese State: Surviving Neoliberal Political Economy', in X. Huang (ed.) The Political and Economic Transition in East Asia: Strong Market, Weakening State, Richmond, Surrey: Gurzon Press.
4. Evans, P. (1995) Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
5. Gao, B. (2001) Japan's Economic Dilemma: The Institutional Origins of Prosperity and Stagnation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Gerlach, M. (1992) Alliance Capitalism: The Social Organization of Japanese Business, Berkeley: University of California Press.
7. Goodin, R. (2003) 'Choose Your Capitalism?', Comparative European Politics, 1: 203-13.
8. Grimes, W. (2001) Unmaking the Japanese Miracle: Macroeconomic Politics,1985-2000, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
9. Hall, D. (2004) 'Japanese Spirit, Western Economics: The Continuing Salience of Economic Nationalism in Japan', New Political Economy, 9(1): 79-99.
10. Hall, P. A. and Soskice, D. (eds) (2001) Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
11. Hall, P. A. and Soskice, D. (2003) 'Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Change: A Response to Three Critics', Comparative European Politics, 1: 241-50.
12. Hall, P. A. and Thelen, K. (2005) 'Institutional Change in Variety of Capitalism', paper presented to the International Sociological Association, Research Committee 19 Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 8 September.
13. Howell, C. (2003) 'Varieties of Capitalism: And Then There Was One?', Comparative Politics, 36(1): 103-24.
14. Johnson, C. (1982) MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy,1925-1975, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
15. Katz, R. (1998) Japan,the System that Soured: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Miracle, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
16. Lincoln, J. and Gerlach, M. (2004) Japan's Network Economy: Structure,Persistence,and Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
17. March, J. and Olsen, J. (1989) Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics, New York: Free Press.
18. Okimoto, D. (1998) Between MITI and the Market: Japanese Industrial Policy for High Technology, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
19. Pempel, T. J. (1998) Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
20. Pierson, P. (2004) Politics in Time: History,Institutions,and Social Analysis, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
21. Thatcher, M. (2004) 'Varieties of Capitalism in an International World: Domestic International Change in European Telecommunications', Comparative Political Studies, 37(7): 751-80.
22. Thelen, K. (1999) 'Historical Institutionalism and Comparative Politics', Annual Review of Political Science, 2: 369-404.
23. Thelen, K. (2004) How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, and the United State,and Japan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
24. Wade, R. (1990) Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
25. Weber, M. (1978) Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretative Society, Berkeley: University of California Press.
26. Weiss, L. (2000) 'Developmental States in Transition: Adapting, Dismantling, Innovating, Not "Normalizing", Pacific Review, 13(1): 21-55.
27. Williamson, O. (1993) 'Transaction Cost, Economics, and Organization Theory', Industrial and Corporate Change, 2(1): 107-56.
28. Yamamura, K. (2003) 'Germany and Japan in a New Phase of Capitalism: Confronting the Past and the Future', in K. Yamamura and W. Streeck (eds) The End of Diversity? Prospects for German and Japanese Capitalism, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.