Civic engagement in postwar Japan : the revival of a defeated society
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Civic engagement in postwar Japan : the revival of a defeated society
Cambridge University Press, 2011
- : hardback
Available at 53 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"This book grew out of a Ph.D. dissertation ..."--Acknowledgments, p. xiii
Bibliography: p. 171-192
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
by "Nielsen BookData"