Table of Contents

Contents:

Preface

1. Introduction: Two Decades of Structural Reform and Political Change in Italy and Japan
Hideko Magara

2. The Residual Japaneseness of Japanese Corporate Governance
Ronald Dore

3. Corporate Governance and Firm Ownership in Italy
Antonio M. Chiesi

4. Japan’s Structural Reform in the Age of Economic Globalization: The Politics Coordination and Miscoordination
Motoshi Suzuki

5. Italy’s Majoritarian Experiment: Continuities and Discontinuities in Italian Electoral Behaviour between the First and Second Republic
Paolo Segatti

6. Party Politics and the Changing Labour Market in Japan
Masanobu Ido

7. Labour Market and Inequality Trends in Italy
Daniele Checchi

8. Beyond Familialism? Welfare Regime Transformation in Japan
Toshimitsu Shinkawa

9. Italy’s Labour Policy and Policy Making in the Crisis: From Distributive Coalitions to the Shadow of Hierarchy
Stefano Sacchi

Index

About the Author

Edited by Hideko Magara, Waseda University, Japan and Stefano Sacchi, Department of Management and Production Engineering, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy