Rise of Responsible Party Government in East Asia: Party-Oriented Electoral Competition and Changing Legislative Politics

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25780099
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: NEMOTO Kuniaki 早稲田大学, 日米研究機構, 助教 (90647025)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 議会制度 / 選挙制度 / 政党

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research investigates the changing behavior of political parties and individual politicians following electoral reform and/or party system institutionalization. Specifically, it hypothesizes that with the rise of policy-centered, party-oriented electoral competition, individual politicians should actively engage in parliamentary activities to improve their parties' policymaking reputations. Empirically, it uses original datasets on Japanese and Korean legislators' bill initiation and legislative behavior, as well as interviews with policymakers and their staff to confirm the hypotheses in different perspectives.

Free Research Field

比較政治