Value Politics in Japan and Europe

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-55124-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 324 g

Reihe: Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism

This book explains the increasing importance of value politics in Europe and Japan, shedding light on various arenas: social values; parties, elections and politics; public action, private sector and law; identity politics and religion; media and public spheres.

It analyses how, against different but commensurable backgrounds, the rise of value politics alters (or not) the political game, for which purposes and with which effects. Applying both qualitative and quantitative methods from a wide range of primary and secondary sources, the comparison is organized by joining skills from experts of Japan and Europe and by systematizing a common analytical framework for the two cases. As such, it presents a revealing and unique analysis of the changing relationship between values and political behaviour in the two polities. Beyond the comparison, it also documents the opportunities and challenges underlying the interactions between Europe, Japan and the rest of the world; and the competition/combination between different versions of modernity.

This book is of key interest to scholars and students of European studies and politics, Asian politics/studies, Japanese studies/politics and more broadly to comparative politics, sociology, cultural/media studies, and economics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foret, François

Hino, Airo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction - Values in Japan and Europe: A comparative historical, socio-cultural and political perspective 2. Are authoritarian values in Europe and Japan on the rise? 3. An exploration of the salience of authoritarianism in Japanese and European party manifestos 4. Decline of pillarisation in Europe, resilience in Japan? The case of value-based parties: Komeito and Christian democracy 5. From Filter Bubble to Social Divide: Social Polarisation in Europe and Japan 6. Values in Japanese and European news media: The representation of news diversity within a medium and across media 7. Values in the securitization of religion in Japan and Europe 8. The role of Values in Managing Diversity in Europe and Japan 9. Values at the crossroads of politics and the market. The Ghosn affair as a test of corporate transparency and accountability 10. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

François Foret is Professor of Political Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Researcher at Cevipol.

Airo Hino is Professor at the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University, Japan.