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How is democracy made real? How does an undemocratic country create new institutions and transform its polity such that democratic values and practices become integral parts of its political culture? These are some of the most pressing questions of our times, and they are the central inquiry of Building Democracy in Japan. Using the Japanese experience as starting point, this book develops a new approach to the study of democratization that examines state-society interactions as a country adjusts its existing political culture to accommodate new democratic values, institutions and practices. With reference to the country's history, the book focuses on how democracy is experienced in contemporary Japan, highlighting the important role of generational change in facilitating both gradual adjustments as well as dramatic transformation in Japanese politics.

Democracy --- Democratization --- History --- Japan --- Politics and government --- History. --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Democracy - Japan - History --- Democratization - Japan - History --- Japan - Politics and government - 1868 --- -Democracy

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This incisive intellectual history of Japanese social science from the 1890s to the present day considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of "development" or "rationalization" have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence. Andrew E. Barshay argues that Japan, together with Germany and pre-revolutionary Russia, represented forms of developmental alienation from the Atlantic Rim symptomatic of late-emerging empires. Neither members nor colonies of the Atlantic Rim, these were independent national societies whose cultural self-image was nevertheless marked by a sense of difference. Barshay presents a historical overview of major Japanese trends and treats two of the most powerful streams of Japanese social science, one associated with Marxism, the other with Modernism (kindaishugi), whose most representative figure is the late Maruyama Masao. Demonstrating that a sense of developmental alienation shaped the thinking of social scientists in both streams, the author argues that they provided Japanese social science with moments of shared self-understanding.

J4010 --- J4011 --- J4600.70 --- J1008.70 --- Japan: Social sciences in general -- ideology, socio-political and socio-economic movements --- Japan: Social sciences in general -- left-wing socio-political and socio-economic movements --- Japan: Politics and law -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Philosophy -- history -- Kindai (1850s-1945), Bakumatsu, Meiji and Taishō --- Social sciences --- Intellectuals --- Socialism --- Democracy --- Political culture --- History --- Social sciences - Japan - History --- Intellectuals - Japan - History --- Socialism - Japan - History --- Democracy - Japan - History --- Political culture - Japan - History