VII. Popular Political Participation and Political Development in Japan: The Rural Level

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Contents xi
4. I. Introduction 1
5. II. A Monarch For Modern Japan 11
6. III. Political Modernization and the Meiji Genro 65
7. IV. Fukuzawa Yukichi: The Philosophical Foundations of Meiji Nationalism 99
8. V. Modernization and Foreign Policy in Meiji Japan 149
9. VI. War and Modernization 189
10. VII. Popular Political Participation and Political Development in Japan: The Rural Level 213
11. VIII. Elections and Political Modernization in Prewar 249
12. IX. The Development of Interest Groups and the Pattern of Political Modernization in Japan 293
13. X. Structural and Functional Differentiation in the Political Modernization of Japan 337
14. XI. Law and Political Modernization in Japan 387
15. XII. Decision-Making in the Japanese Government: A Study of Ringisei 457
16. XIII. Reflections on the Allied Occupation and Planned Political Change in Japan 477
17. XIV. The Politics of Japan's Modernization: The Autonomy of Choice 537
18. XV. Epilogue 577
19. Appendix: Results of Selected Japanese General Elections, 1892-1937 593
20. List of Contributors 605
21. Index 607