2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Gender Politics in the Process of Restructuring Familialist Welfare Regime
| Project/Area Number |
23830102
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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Principal Investigator |
TSUJI Yuji 立命館大学, 政策科学部, 助教 (40610481)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | 福祉レジーム / 家族主義 / ジェンダー / ケア / 日本政治 / 比較政治 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study explores the development of gender politics by analyzing therestructuring processes of Japan’s familialist welfare regime with a comparativeperspective. Gender politics is a term referring to the politics not only of reforming thestate-family relations but also of redefining ‘family’ and gender relations and norms.Through several case studies, this study found; participation of new political actors inthe policy-making processes: existence of a political force aiming to reinforce the coreprinciples of the familialist regime: correlations between political institutions andpolitical discourses: and influence of the regime change on the politics of localgovernments.
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Research Products
(7 results)
