| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The voter turnout of older people is always higher than other age groups regardless of local or national election. The progress of aging of population and declining birthrate are rapidly increasing the percentage of such older people among electorate. I habe been interested in this social phenomenon and have tried to investigate whether their voting behavior has significant impact on political and social issues or not. In this study, I analyzed the data on 1,474 participants obtained from mail survey for 4,000 adult males and females selected by random sampling. The strongest factor of political participation is old age per se, and political efficacy has mediative effect between political participation and sosio-demographic factors. Political efficacy and political participation except for voting of older people were not much different from other generations, and conflictive attitudes between generations were not found.
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