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The Conscription Society - Administered Mass Organizations (Hardcover, New)
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The Conscription Society - Administered Mass Organizations (Hardcover, New)
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The ability to organize millions of people for political purposes
is a potent and relatively recent weapon in the struggle for power.
Political scientists have studied two types of mass organization,
the political party and the interest group. In this book Gregory
Kasza examines a third type, which he calls the administered mass
organization. AMOs are mass civilian bodies created by
authoritarian regimes to implement public policy. Officials use
them to organize youths, workers, women, or members of other social
sectors into bodies resembling the mass conscript army. A network
of AMOs produces a conscription society, a major force in
twentieth-century politics in over 45 countries. Using comparative
history and organization theory, Kasza analyzes the politics of the
conscription society in both military and single-party regimes. He
discusses the origins of AMOs in Japan, the Soviet Union, and
Fascist Italy and their subsequent spread to China, Egypt, Nazi
Germany, Peru, Poland, and Yugoslavia. He focuses on the use of
AMOs to curb political opposition, to mobilize for war, and to
shift control over the means of production. Kasza shows how, in the
hands of despotic rulers, AMOs have contributed to the extremes of
political barbarism characteristic of the twentieth century.
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