1. Democracy in 1920's Japan
... path towards political modernization and a model of relatively liberal democracy. Indeed, the previous decade had seen the nation's masses call for a 'constitutional government' and, by the beginning of the 1920's, elected politicians had come in from the peripheries to wield considerable, actual power. Rapid industrialization developed both a moneyed bourgeoisie and an urban proletariat, and trade unions and political organizations had begun ... Genro, and they made sure that the will of nonparty elites was not trodden on by the actions of the elected parties.4 As the parliament's...
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