Japanas Dual Civil Society: Members Without Advocates

by Robert J. Pekkanen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804754292
• ISBN13: 9780804754293
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"