Civic engagement in postwar Japan : the revival of a defeated society
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Civic engagement in postwar Japan : the revival of a defeated society
Cambridge University Press, 2011
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"This book grew out of a Ph.D. dissertation ..."--Acknowledgments, p. xiii
Bibliography: p. 171-192
Includes index
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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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 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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