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Civic engagement in postwar Japan : the revival of a defeated society / Rieko Kage.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kage, Rieko, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil society--Japan--History--20th century.
- Civil society.
- Postwar reconstruction--Japan--Citizen participation.
- Postwar reconstruction.
- Political participation--Japan--History--20th century.
- Political participation.
- Japan--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 195 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Despite reduced incomes, diminished opportunities for education, and the psychological trauma of defeat, Japan experienced a rapid rise in civic engagement in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Why? Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan answers this question with a new general theory of the growth in civic engagement in postwar democracies. It argues that wartime mobilization unintentionally instills civic skills in the citizenry, thus laying the groundwork for a postwar civic engagement boom. Meanwhile, legacies of prewar associational activities shape the costs of association-building and information-gathering, thus affecting the actual extent of the postwar boom. Combining original data collection, rigorous statistical methods, and in-depth historical case analyses, this book illuminates one of the keys to making postwar democracies work.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Civic engagement: the dependent variable
- War and civic engagement: a theoretical framework
- Quantitative analysis: the rise of civic engagement across forty-six Japanese prefectures
- The long-term effects of wartime mobilization: cross-national analysis
- Repression and revivial of the YMCA Japan
- Wartime endorsement and postwar repression of a traditional art
- Civil society and reconstruction in postwar Japan.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-21404-1
- 0-511-85272-X
- 1-282-91874-5
- 9786612918742
- 0-511-93154-9
- 0-511-93288-X
- 0-511-92769-X
- 0-511-92515-8
- 0-511-76140-6
- 0-511-93020-8
- OCLC:
- 689997282
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