Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan: The Revival of a Defeated Society

ISBN-13: 9780521192576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 216 str.

Rieko Kage

Opis

This book illuminates one of the keys to making postwar democracies work.

Recenzje

“Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan has provocative implications for practice. If Kage is right, legacies of cultural belief and social practice established in the past have more influence on the response to postwar situations than the “shock and awe” that a population may have experienced.” -David C. Hammack, Case Western Reserve University, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Spis treści

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.