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

by Rieko Kage
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780521192576
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 216
  • Original Price: GBP 99.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Civics & Citizenship

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.

Kage, Rieko: - 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.

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