TY - BOOK ID - 77865855 TI - Authority without power PY - 1991 SN - 1423765052 0195357795 1602560013 9781423765059 9786610441815 6610441812 9780195092578 0195092570 0195092570 0195055837 9780195055832 PB - New York Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Law KW - Social control. KW - Social conflict KW - Sociology KW - Liberty KW - Pressure groups KW - History. KW - Droit KW - Contrôle social KW - Histoire UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77865855 AB - 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. ER -