Description: The volume focuses and introduces the changing and complex relationship between state and civil society in contemporary East Asian democracies in a comparative perspective.
Brief description: David Chiavacci is Professor in Social Science of Japan at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research covers political and economic sociology of contemporary Japan in a comparative perspective. He is known for his publications on social movements, social inequality as well as Japan's new immigration and immigration policy.
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The book is a collection of chapters prepared by social scientists with expertise in the Eastern Asian matters, specializing mainly in sociology, comparative politics and civil society studies. The background of the authors enables to apply interdisciplinary lenses to analyze the civil society phenomenon in Eastern Asia. What is especially important and interesting, the book is written both by experts from outside the countries of interest and by specialists originating from these countries. The cultural knowledge from the inside of the states is of great value to the presented texts and the book as a whole.- Iwona Nowakowska, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (2021).