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The conscription society : administered mass organizations

Using comparative history and organization theory, this text analyzes the politics of conscription in military and single-party regimes. It discusses the origins of administered mass organizations, civilian bodies created by authoritarian regimes, in countries such as Japan and Fascist Italy
Print Book, English, ©1995
Yale University Press, New Haven, ©1995
History
xii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780300062427, 0300062427
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1. Definition and Historical Origins
2. Structure
3. A Weapon Against Autonomous Organizations
4. A Weapon of War
5. A Weapon of Socioeconomic Change
6. The AMO in National Politics
7. The AMO in Political Ideology
Appendix: Other Regimes Using AMOs