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Authority Without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox (Studies on Law and Social Control)
Authority Without Power Law and the Japanese Paradox - Studies on Law and Social Control
Author: John Owen Haley
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195092578
ISBN-10: 0195092570
Publication Date: 10/17/1994
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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