Value Politics in Japan and Europe

<p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p>