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The nature of the Japanese state : rationality and rituality /
In this adventurous new study the author demonstrates how conflicting impressions of Japan can be reconciled and a greater understanding of the state achieved. Engagement with debates over bureaucracy's role in Japanese politics is included.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1998.
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| Colección: | Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Series editor's preface; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note to the reader; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: where rationality and rituality meet; 2. Demystifying a discourse: the misuses of"" Japanese culture"" and the production of rationality; 3. The bureaucratized self: public, private, and ""civil society"" in Japan; 4. Japan's government: the bureaucratic blurring of state and society; 5. Rationality, bureaucracy, and belief in the state.
- 6. Japan's Ministry of Education: rationalizedschooling and the state7. The rationality of moral education: the state's visionof civil society; 8. Conclusion: lessons from Japan about state andsociety; Notes; Bibliography; Index.