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Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
Japan’s Dual Civil Society: Members Without Advocates Japan’s Dual Civil Society: Members Without Advocates
Format
paper
Pages
xx, 252
ISBN
0-8047-5429-2

Winner of the 2007 Ohira Memorial Prize, sponsored by the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation.

Honorable Mention in the 2007 Hayashi Yujiro Prize for Best Books on Japan\x92s Nonprofit Sector, sponsored by the Japan NPO Research Association (JANPORA).

Japan's Dual Civil Society: Members Without Advocates is the twelfth title in the East-West Center book series, Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific, published by Stanford University Press.

This book provides an overview of the state of Japan's civil society and a new theory, based on political institutions, to explain why Japan differs so much from other industrialized democracies. It offers a new interpretation of why Japan's civil society has developed as it has, with many small, local groups but few large, professionally managed national organizations. The book further asks what the consequences of that pattern of development are for Japan's policy and politics. The author persuasively demonstrates that political institutions -- the regulatory framework, financial flows, and the political opportunity structure -- are responsible for this pattern, with the result that civil groups have little chance of influencing national policy debates. The phenomenon of "members without advocates" thus has enormous implications for democratic participation in Japan.

 

Details and ordering information at
Stanford University Press

 

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
  1. Introduction
  2. Japan's Civil Society in Comparative Perspective
  3. The Regulatory Framework
  4. Neighborhood Associations and Local Civil Society
  5. The Politics of Regulating Civil Society
  6. Conclusion: Members Without Advocates
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Winner of the 2007 Ohira Memorial Prize, sponsored by the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation.

Honorable Mention in the 2007 Hayashi Yujiro Prize for Best Books on Japan\x92s Nonprofit Sector, sponsored by the Japan NPO Research Association (JANPORA).

Japan's Dual Civil Society: Members Without Advocates is the twelfth title in the East-West Center book series, Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific, published by Stanford University Press.

This book provides an overview of the state of Japan's civil society and a new theory, based on political institutions, to explain why Japan differs so much from other industrialized democracies. It offers a new interpretation of why Japan's civil society has developed as it has, with many small, local groups but few large, professionally managed national organizations. The book further asks what the consequences of that pattern of development are for Japan's policy and politics. The author persuasively demonstrates that political institutions -- the regulatory framework, financial flows, and the political opportunity structure -- are responsible for this pattern, with the result that civil groups have little chance of influencing national policy debates. The phenomenon of "members without advocates" thus has enormous implications for democratic participation in Japan.

 

Details and ordering information at
Stanford University Press

 

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
  1. Introduction
  2. Japan's Civil Society in Comparative Perspective
  3. The Regulatory Framework
  4. Neighborhood Associations and Local Civil Society
  5. The Politics of Regulating Civil Society
  6. Conclusion: Members Without Advocates
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index