Electoral Coordination in a Multi-level Context: Analysis of Candidate Manifestos in Japanese Subnational Elections
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20K01445
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 06010:Politics-related
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
Hijino Ken 京都大学, 法学研究科, 教授 (90738311)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Keywords | sunbnational elections / manifestos / multilevel / second order / decentralization / ideology / local elections / party organizations |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
The project will be the first of its kind comprehensively analyzing multi-arena electoral campaigning dynamics through the systematic collection, coding, and comparing of senkyo koho at prefectural and municipal level for assembly and chief executive elections in Japan.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Based on the data set of subnational candidate manifestos collected and digitalized in previous two years, I conducted analysis of the diverging discourses around responses to Covid-19 among gubernatorial and national candidates. I also expanded this data by collecting and digitalising gubernatorial and mayoral campaign speeches. I presented findings at the VSJF 2022 conference in Zurich.
I also completed a co-authored paper by invitation, on the discourse of multilevel blame avoidance in gubernatorial elections to be published in 2023 in Senkyo Kenkyu. I have also expanded my working paper on ideologies of repopulating municipalities, presenting it at an international conference in Berlin on urban-rural issues. The related paper was peer-reviewed and published in Cotemporary Japan.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Expansion and cleaning-up of the data set of subnational candidate manifestos generated during the first two years of the project has continued smoothly. In the past year, I have expanded this by collecting campaign speeches of both mayoral and gubernatorial elections and creating text data for analysis.
Analysis of multilevel coordination and blame-avoidance among co-partisans, looking at Japan's gubernatorial campaign discourse around Covid-19, went smoothly as a result of this data set.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
I plan to conduct interviews of practitioners (subantional politicians and candidates) and fieldwork of gubernatorial and mayoral elections, to complement the textual data set for analyzing coordination with co-partisans and affiliated parties over various policy areas. I also plan to co-author a textual analysis article (to be presented at the EAJS 2023 Conference) comparing ideological cleavages of subnational and national elections.
I am invited to write two speparate articles: 1) on the ideological conflicts around depopulation in subnational elections and 2) "deviant" ideologies among gubernatorial candidates for two international journals by the end of 2023.
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Research Products
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