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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      12 January 2010
      28 March 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511571060
      9780521665742
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511571060
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 440 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Anthropology
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    Social and Cultural Anthropology, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Anthropology
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    After World War Two, Japan attained economic growth but suffered environmental disaster. In response to massive protest in the 1960s and 1970s, the Japanese government rapidly reduced the worst air and water pollution. Jeffrey Broadbent's case study of industrial growth and pollution in a rural Japanese prefecture explains this response while testing political, social movement and environmental theory. The state, conservative political party and big business pushed rampant growth until movements posed a political and disruptive challenge. Then, the elites passed some pollution control, but also demobilized local protest, quashed discontent, and prevented the formation of national environmental groups. Without the protest threat, business stymied other government pollution-control plans. The interaction of material, institutional and cultural factors, especially informal institutions, explained the dominance of actors and the pattern of outcomes. Through this syncretic lens in a non-Western setting, this study refines our theories of the state, protest movements, political process, and environmental problems.

    Reviews

    ‘An essential and original contribution to the understanding of modern Japan.’

    Source: Mutations Asiatiques

    '… an excellently researched and clearly written contribution to the study of comparative and international environmental politics.'

    Source: Asian Journal of Political Science

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