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Regime Shift (Paperback) - Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy
T. J. Pempel / Cornell Univ Pr / 1998년 12월
평점 :
펨펠은 비교정치학의 거장이다. 정치학과에서 수업을 들을 때 여러권의 편저를 잃을 기회가 있었다. 이책은 펨펠이 자신의 논리틀을 완성해 보여주는 성격을 가지면서 왜 일본이 헤이세이 불황을 10년동안 방치할 수 밖에 없었는가를 정치경제학적으로 접근해 설명하고 있다. 그가 제시하는 개념은 regime이다. 이익집단의 대결과 타협이 정치이고 한 정치경제 단위에서 일정한 균형에 도달하면 그 균형은 쉽게 바뀌지 않는 regime이 된다는 것이다. 그 regime이 바뀌기 힘들었기에 10년을 끌 수 밖에 없었다고 설명하는 논리이다
다음은 내가 아마존에 포스팅했던 리뷰이다.
since the 1982, the developmental state, articulated by Chalmers Johson in his infulential book 'MITI', has been the standard approach in the field of North East Asian studies at least in the circle of political economy. but the model of developmental state does not fit into the phenomenon since the 1980s, in SOuth Korea, and the 1973, in Japan. the bureacrats is not that autonoumous like the past, i.e. the rapid growth period, the ruling party proned to be the masters of fork barrel politics, and constituents were not that concensual like the past. there must be some 'shift'. Pempel's work is the attempt to provide a comprehensive framework to explain the shift in systematic and succinct way. his framework is based on the concept of 'regime' which is common in the field of comparative politics. I think he succeeded in that point.
but the concept of regime has some limitation: for example, it can't expalin why keiretsu or main bank system developed and why it has been disolved since 1980s. sure I know it was not Pempel's intention to include them. but to understand Japan or Korea, we should include big businesses. without them, explanation can't be comprehensive. it's the point of political economy, I think.