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Title
Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan The Revival of a Defeated Society
Size
216 pages, 156x234mm, hardcover
Language
English
Released
December, 2010
ISBN
978-0-521-19257-6
Published by
Cambridge University Press
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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.
(Written by Rieko Kage, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / 2017)
Table of Contents
2. Civic engagement: the dependent variable
3. War and civic engagement: a theoretical framework
4. Quantitative analysis: the rise of civic engagement across forty-six Japanese prefectures
5. The long-term effects of wartime mobilization: cross-national analysis
6. Repression and revival of the YMCA Japan
7. Wartime promotion and postwar repression of a traditional martial art
8. Civil society and reconstruction in postwar Japan
9. Conclusions.
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