caa a22 4500 467899134 CHVBK 20180406152812.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10308-006-0076-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10308-006-0076-0 Local level political and institutional changes in Japan: An end to political alienation? [Elektronische Daten] [Gesine Foljanty-Jost, Carmen Schmidt] Background: In Japan, a steady increase of non-voters is evident on the national and local levels over the past few decades. However, since the mid-1990s, a new wave of political participation at the local level has attracted politicians as well as social scientists. Citizen participation is increasing in terms of the number of non-profit organizations, participatory procedures, and engagement in new political networks. Citizens growing involvement in local politics coincides with institutional changes that offer new autonomy in respect of local policy-making. Objectives: In this paper, we will argue that these local trends might have an impact on national politics through the repolitization of citizens. However, preconditions are, ceteris paribus, the restoration of political trust through participation and institutional changes that support citizen involvement in politics. Springer-Verlag, 2006 Foljanty-Jost Gesine Department for Japanese Studies, Martin Luther University of Halle, Wittenberg, Germany aut Schmidt Carmen Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Osnabrueck, Wittenberg, Germany aut Asia Europe Journal Springer-Verlag 4/3(2006-09-01), 381-397 1610-2932 4:3<381 2006 4 10308 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-006-0076-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-006-0076-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Foljanty-Jost Gesine Department for Japanese Studies, Martin Luther University of Halle, Wittenberg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schmidt Carmen Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Osnabrueck, Wittenberg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Asia Europe Journal Springer-Verlag 4/3(2006-09-01), 381-397 1610-2932 4:3<381 2006 4 10308 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer