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Comparative Research of the Parties as Political Recruit Organizations of Women

Research Project

Project/Area Number 11620079
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Politics
Research InstitutionMIE UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

IWAMOTO Misako  Mie University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (00176570)

Project Period (FY) 1999 – 2000
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2000)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Keywordswoman / political participation / visibility / Madonna Boom / united local elections / 55nen Taisei / woman and politics / gender / マドンナ・ブーム / 政治過程 / 選挙 / 大臣 / 政務次官 / 衆議院議員 / 参議院議員 / 地方議員
Research Abstract

There are no precedent studies in this area in Japan. I tried to grasp the political recruitment in Japan. As of "Madonna Boom" in the latter half of the 1980s, I found the Social Democratic Party of Japan changed its recruit source from male union members to women. But the women's political recruitment didn't become systematic. Only the "DOI-then chairwoman of SDPJ-boom", made by the mass media, pushed the women Diet candidates. This boom, however. broke the thick wall between Japanese women and politics, and therefore pushes the women's advancement into politics. Also Japan Communist Party and Komei party began to recruit women into local assemblies in the 1980s.
Moreover, I researched the background of the women's advancement at the 1999 united local elections. The grassroots movement to "push women into local assemblies" all around of the nation became very active among non-partisan women. "The proxy movement" by the Seikatu-club coops makes women assembly member increase. JCP and Komei party also push women into assemblies eagerly, but the recruit processes are hard to touch from the outside of the parties
In the USA, elections are very candidate-centric. Political parties don't promote the women candidates, but no more disturb women becoming candidates. In the UK, the Labor Party systematized to put women on the short lists because young women's votes are decisive. In Germany, the Green Party has made the half-and-half lists of candidates. And it made Social Democratic Party to realize the 40% women's quota. In France, against the strong obstacle of the incumbents, women advanced into the newly established Europe Conference and regional assemblies. The Parite-equilibrium of both sexes-Act of 2000 makes political parties to search women candidates.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2000 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1999 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All Other

All Publications (7 results)

  • [Publications] 岩本美砂子: "1999年統一地方選挙における女性の鑑定"政策科学(立命館大学). 8巻3号(印刷中). (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2000 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 賀来健輔,丸山仁: "ニューポリティクスの政治学"ミネルヴァ書房. 334 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2000 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Misako, IWAMOTO: "The Women's Advancement in the 1999 united local elections"Policy Science Academy. vol.8 No.3-(now printing)-.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2000 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kensuke, KAKU and Hitoshi, MARUYAMA: "Political Science of New Politics"Mineruva Shobo. 334(225-249) (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2000 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 岩本美砂子: "1999年統一地方選挙における女性の躍進"政策科学(立命館大学). 8巻3号(印刷中). (2001)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 賀来健輔,丸山仁: "ニューポリティクスの政治学"ミネルヴァ書房. 334 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 岩本美砂子: "政治職への女性の進出"参議院男女共生社会に関する調査会報告書. (印刷中). (2000)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1999-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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