Authority Without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195092578)

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.

Author: John Owen Haley
ISBN-10: 0195092570
ISBN-13: 9780195092578
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1994
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.05w x 0.81d