New PDF release: Japan's Dual Civil Society: Members Without Advocates

By Robert Pekkanen

ISBN-10: 0804754292

ISBN-13: 9780804754293

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This booklet offers an outline of the nation of Japan's civil society and a brand new concept, in response to political associations, to provide an explanation for why Japan differs rather a lot from different industrialized democracies. It deals a brand new interpretation of why Japan's civil society has constructed because it has, with many small, neighborhood teams yet few huge, professionally controlled nationwide companies. The booklet extra asks what the implications of that development of improvement are for Japan's coverage and politics. the writer persuasively demonstrates that political institutions—the regulatory framework, monetary flows, and the political chance structure—are liable for this development, with the end result that civil teams have little probability of influencing nationwide coverage debates. The phenomenon of “members with out advocates” hence has huge, immense implications for democratic participation in Japan.

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OISCA International has as many employees as the second, third, and fourth largest groups combined. S. leaders, CARE and World Vision, have staffs of 10,000 and 15,000, respectively—100 times the leading Japanese group. 5) that Plan International Japan had the most members. 7 shows that Plan International Japan also has the largest budget of these groups at nearly 3,903,580,000 yen ($39 million). However, once again, there is a gap between the leading group and even those just under it in the rankings.

F i g u r e 2 . 6 s h o w s t h e c o m p l e t e s p e c t r u m of the s c o p e of activities. It is s u r p r i s i n g h o w f e w g r o u p s are a c t i v e o n the n a t i o n a l TABLE 2. S. foundations by asset size Name Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Lilly Endowment Inc. The Ford Foundation The David and Lucille Packard Foundation The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation J. Paul Getty Trust The Starr Foundation W. K. Kellogg Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Pew Charitable Trusts John D.

1 presents this lack of professionalization visually. As one moves up the scale of professional staff, the number of organizations diminishes. Recall also that the public interest legal persons (PILPs) are the category of civil society group with the largest staff size, yet there are few large organizations. More than three-quarters of PILPs have staff sizes of 9 or fewer, more than a third have staff sizes of x or o, and only 1,608 groups have 50 or more staffers. The average number of employees at PILPs is 18.

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