Rieko Kage

Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan (eBook, ePUB)

The Revival of a Defeated Society

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511852725
• Artikelnr.: 52862301

Autorenporträt

Rieko Kage is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tokyo, Japan. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2005. She has been a Fulbright Scholar, Advanced Research Fellow at the Program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard, and Toyota Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan. Her writings have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Political Psychology, and other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

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.