书目名称 | Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan | 副标题 | Established and Emer | 编辑 | Henk Vinken,Yuko Nishimura,Masayuki Deguchi | 视频video | | 概述 | Insider‘s look at civic engagement in Japan, with a background in Western scholarship.Interdisciplinary contributors cover the field comprehensively.Covers both established, mainstream organizations a | 丛书名称 | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Civic engagement is a concept of action that has become part of common vocabulary, not only in the West but also in many other regions of the world as well. A growing, yet still small number of scholarly works has recently emerged showing how in Japan citizen activism, volunteering, and social action for a public cause are dev- oping. This present volume is another, and in my view, important addition to the body of knowledge on civic engagement in Japan. The majority of books on related issues in Japan take on the perspective of organized civic life, in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) or nonprofit organizations (NPOs): we know quite a number of things about the quantitative trends in these organizations, on their positioning, on their difficulties, and on the institutional contexts in which they have to work. We know relatively little – except for a small number of topical qualitative case studies – on broad issues that relate to civic engagement in Japan, inside or outside these formal organizations. This volume is the first to offer a wide scope of broad variety of forms of civic engagement in contemporary Japan. The volume is quite forceful in counterbalancing oversimplifie | 出版日期 | Book 2010 | 关键词 | Civil Society Studies; International Relations; NGO; NGOs; NPOs; Nation; Non-profit studies; environment | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1504-7 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4614-2584-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4419-1504-7Series ISSN 1568-2579 | issn_series | 1568-2579 | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 2010 |
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