The state of civil society in Japan
This book is about associational life and the public sphere in Japan. It goes beyond assessing the condition of civil society to explore the role of the state in shaping civil society over time.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Recognizing civil society in Japan / Frank Schwartz
- PART I: CONTEXT
- What is civil society? / Frank Schwartz
- From Meiji to Heisei: the state and civil society in Japan / Sheldon Garon
- Capitalism and civil society in postwar Japan: perspectives from intellectual history / Andrew Barshay
- PART II: THE ASSOCIATIONAL SPHERE
- From developmentalism to maturity: Japan's civil society organizations in comparative perspective / Tsujinaka Yutaka
- Molding Japanese civil society: state-structured incentives and the patterning of civil society / Robert Pekkanen
- After Aum: religion and civil society in Japan / Helen Hardacre
- State-society partnership in the Japanese welfare state / Margarita Estévez-Abe
- PART III: THE NONMARKET ACTIVITIES OF ECONOMIC ACTORS
- Redefining the conservative coalition: agriculture and small business in 1990s Japan / Robert Bullock
- The death of unions' associational life? Political and cultural aspects of enterprise unions / Suzuki Akira
- The struggle for an independent consumer society: consumer activism and the state's response in postwar Japan / Patricia Maclachlan
- PART IV: STATE-CIVIL SOCIETY LINKAGES
- Mobilizing and demobilizing the Japanese public sphere: mass media and the Internet in Japan / Laurie Freeman
- A tale of two systems: prosecuting corruption in Japan and Italy / David Johnson
- PART V: GLOBALIZATION AND VALUE CHANGE
- Trust and social intelligence in Japan / Yamagishi Toshio
- Building global civil society from the outside in? Japanese international development NGOs, the state, and international norms / Kim Reimann
- Conclusion: Targeting by an activist state: Japan as a civil society model / Susan Pharr.
