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1 online resource (xv, 195 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-192) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Civil society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil society. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Postwar reconstruction -- Japan -- Citizen participation.
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Postwar reconstruction. |
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Political participation. |
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Political participation -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Japan -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1945-1989 |
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1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kage, Rieko, 1973- Civic engagement in postwar Japan. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9780521192576 (DLC) 2010030585 (OCoLC)649702273 |
| ISBN |
9780511932885 (electronic book) |
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051193288X (electronic book) |
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9780521192576 |
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0521192579 |
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