Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-375) and indexes.
Contents:
Conclusion: Targeting by an activist state: Japan as a civil society model / Susan Pharr. 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 EsteĢvez-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.
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