Dados is one of the most widely-read social sciences journals in Latin America. Created in 1966, it publishes innovative works, originating from academic research, by Brazilian and foreign authors. Edited by IESP-UERJ, it aims to reconcile scientific rigor and academic excellence with an emphasis on public debate based on the analysis of substantive issues of society and politics.
Dados vol. 53 n. 1 Rio de Janeiro 2010
Abstract
The main objective of this article is to analyze the modern Japanese political system within a comparative framework, especially that of multiple modernities and their civilizational roots. The point of departure for this analysis is the fact that while in organizational terms the modern Japanese political system is a modern Constitutional system, similar to those of Europe, its political dynamic is manifested in the structure and orientations of protest movements, the establishment of the problem of community and civil society, and the dynamic of regime changes that differs greatly from the European. Such differences are rooted in non-Axial premises of Japanese civilization that have crystallized over the course of the long Japanese historical experience and have shaped some of the main differences between the Meiji Revolution and the Great Revolutions.
Keywords: Japan, political system, modernity
DOI: 10.1590/S0011-52582010000100002
Japanese modernity: the first non-western multiple modernity
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