Power in Contemporary Japan (eBook)

Gill Steel (Herausgeber)

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2016
263 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
9781137591937 (ISBN)

Infos

This book discusses Japanese conceptions of power and presents a complex, nuanced look at how power operates in society and in politics. It rejects stereotypes that describe Japanese citizens as passive and apolitical, cemented into a vertically structured, group-oriented society and shows how citizens learn about power in the contexts of the family, the workplace, and politics.

As Japan grapples with the consequences of having one of the oldest and most rapidly ageing populations in the world, it is important for social scientists and policy makers worldwide to understand the choices it makes. Particularly as policy-makers have once again turned their attention to workers, the roles of women, families, and to immigrants as potential 'solutions' to the perceived problem of maintaining or increasing the working population. These studies show the ebb and flow of power over time and also note that power is context-dependent - actors can have power in one context, but not another. 

Gill Steel is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Institute for the Liberal Arts, Doshisha University. She previously taught in the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Tokyo. She co-authored Changing Politics in Japan (2010) with Ikuo Kabashima and co-edited Democratic Reform in Japan (2008) with Sherry Martin.  

Inhalt

1.  Power and ChangeSECTION 1: LEARNING ABOUT POWER2. Contesting Children’s Citizenship Education: What Should Japanese Children Know?3. Political SocializationSECTION 2: POWER IN AND OVER THE FAMILY4. Negotiating Technology Use in Families5. Who Does the Dishes? Fairness and Household Chores6. Power over Family Policy: Governing of or Governing through Individuals7. Creating Community at Daycare: Deflecting the Power of the StateSECTION 3: POWER IN SOCIETY AND IN THE WORKPLACE8. Workers and Unions9. Examining Power in Hierarchical Social Networks in East Asia10. The Gender Triad: Men, Women, and CorporationsSECTION 4: POLITICAL POWER11. Who—if anyone—is in charge? Evolving Discourses of Political Power and Bureaucratic Delegation in Postwar Japanese Policymaking12. Holding on to Power: Politicians and Re-election13. Selling the Idea of Local Power: Decentralization Reforms since the 1990s14. Japan in the World: Soft Power, Hard Power

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.6.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 263 p. 34 illus., 1 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Diversity • Family • Japan • Politics • Power
• ISBN-13: 9781137591937 / 9781137591937