http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/2.toc
SPECIAL ISSUE: Asian capitalisms. Bringing Asia into the comparative capitalism perspective
Socio-Economic Review Volume 11 Number 2 April 2013
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
217 Bringing Asia into the comparative capitalism perspective
Cornelia Storz, Bruno Amable, Steven Casper and Sebastien Lechevalier
ARTICLES
233 Historical sources of institutional trajectories in economic development: China,
Japan and Korea compared
Masahiko Aoki
265 Asian business systems: institutional comparison, clusters and implications for
varieties of capitalism and business systems theory
Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding
301 Changing macro-structural varieties of East Asian capitalism
Xiaoke Zhang and Richard Whitley
337 Syncretism: the politics of Japan’s financial reforms
Kenji E. Kushida and Kay Shimizu
371 Is there an Asian model of technological emergence?
Coralie Reslinger
個人的な興味があるから、日本の金融改革についての研究が気になった。syncretism? 面白い
This paper examines how diversely organized capitalist societies evolve by analyzing the transformation of Japan’s financial system since the 1990s. The banking, securities and insurance, as well as the postal financial institutions changed significantly, but are hardly converging to Anglo-American or ‘liberal market’ models. We contend that Japan’s new financial system is best characterized as syncretic, with new, traditional and hybrid forms of practices, organizations and norms coexisting. Syncretism in industry was driven by a distinctive pattern
of interest group politics we call syncretization. Strong political leadership,facing serious electoral threats, shifted the policy logic from gradual incremental reforms following traditional interest group dynamics, to rapid reforms that excluded the traditionally powerful interest groups most affected by these
reforms. We support the notion that diverse industry outcomes can be complementary to broader political economic reforms that take Japan away from its traditional model, part of a broader ‘convergence towards diversity’.
Keywords: political economy, Japan, financial reform, postal privatization
しかし、強い政治リーダーというのは、小泉しかないではないだろうか？
the road not taken 