Are Parliamentary Trust based on Political System or Culture?: Overcoming Distrust by Public Deliberation

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K16992
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Waseda University (2016); Doshisha University (2015)
• Principal Investigator: Kinoshita Ken 早稲田大学, 政治経済学術院, 助教 (30735296)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 議会 / 国会 / 信頼 / 不信 / 討議

Outline of Final Research Achievements

World Value Survey (2010-2014) depicts the low percentage (19.8%) in Japanese Parliamentary Trust. This research reveals how overcome the distrust through political system and culture. We paid attention to the information technology, got out the results that accessing and viewing homepages of the Diet raise up the trust. Although political talking has no impact on the trust, it raise up the trust of the government and politicians. Then, political talking has additional impact on the trust in the Diet. The Diet have to introduce the system of monitoring and sanction to overcoming distrust. Therefore, voters have to watch the Diet based on correct information.

Free Research Field

議会