Authority without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox
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| Anteprima |
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.
