Haley, John Owen
Authority without power : law and the Japanese paradox / John Owen Haley - New York : Oxford University Press, 1991 - x, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
This book offers a comprehensive interpretive study of the role of law in contemporary Japan. Haley argues that the weakness of legal controls throughout Japanese history has assured the development and strength of informal community controls based on custom and consensus to maintain order--an order characterized by remarkable stability, with an equally significant degree of autonomy for individuals, communities, and businesses. Haley concludes by showing how Japan's weak legal system has reinforced preexisting patterns of extralegal social control, thus explaining many of the fundamental paradoxes of political and social life in contemporary Japan
0195055837 9780195055832 0195092570 9780195092578
91009666
Law--History--Japan
Social control
KNX120 / .H35 1991 KQP1 / .H340 1991
349.52 549.52
Authority without power : law and the Japanese paradox / John Owen Haley - New York : Oxford University Press, 1991 - x, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
This book offers a comprehensive interpretive study of the role of law in contemporary Japan. Haley argues that the weakness of legal controls throughout Japanese history has assured the development and strength of informal community controls based on custom and consensus to maintain order--an order characterized by remarkable stability, with an equally significant degree of autonomy for individuals, communities, and businesses. Haley concludes by showing how Japan's weak legal system has reinforced preexisting patterns of extralegal social control, thus explaining many of the fundamental paradoxes of political and social life in contemporary Japan
0195055837 9780195055832 0195092570 9780195092578
91009666
Law--History--Japan
Social control
KNX120 / .H35 1991 KQP1 / .H340 1991
349.52 549.52