When Social Movements Changes Party Politics: Emergence of Cultural Issues in Postwar US Politics

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25885018
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: IIDA Rentaro 東京大学, 法学(政治学)研究科(研究院), 特任研究員 (50707502)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-08-30 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: アメリカ政治 / 政党 / 利益団体 / 社会運動 / 世論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

My research interest are in the field of American Politics focusing on political parties, interest groups, and public opinion. I have a particular interest in understanding and explaining the causal mechanism of how ordinary people perceive the changing coalition of political parties and how they use the connections as heuristics. Specifically, I look at the changing relationship between issue opinion and party identification responding to various contexts in which people perceive changes in a relationship between groups and political parties. A key empirical strategy is to exploit the varying state-level historical contexts as leverages, using abortion and gay rights issues as case studies.

Free Research Field

政治学