Description |
1 online resource (xv, 195 pages) : illustrations |
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 |
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"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-192) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Civil society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
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Postwar reconstruction -- Japan -- Citizen participation
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Political participation -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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Civil society
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Political participation
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Politics and government
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Wiederaufbau
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Zivilgesellschaft
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SUBJECT |
Japan -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001003687
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Japan
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Japan
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2010030585 |
ISBN |
9780511932885 |
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051193288X |
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1107214041 |
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9781107214040 |
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1282918745 |
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9781282918740 |
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9786612918742 |
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6612918748 |
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0511931549 |
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9780511931543 |
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0511925158 |
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9780511925153 |
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0511761406 |
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9780511761409 |
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0511930208 |
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9780511930201 |
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