Political and Economic Changes and Economic Voting in Japan
| Project/Area Number |
11620088
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | Meiji Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
HIRANO Hiroshi Meijigakuin University, Faculty of Law, Associate Professor, 法学部, 助教授 (90222249)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2000
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥2,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000)
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| Keywords | election / voting behavior / retrospective voting / economic voting / political behavior / Japan / パーソナル・ヴォート |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research is to clarify how political and economic changes that occurred in Japan during 1990s affected the nature of economic voting. The data was taken from six random sample surveys of voters in metropolitan Tokyo. All the surveys were done by mail.
The results are as follows. First, policy-oriented economic votinghas declined and instead incumbency-oriented voting has become more salient. In other words, there has been a shift from voting for the LDP when times are tough to giving an opposition party a chance when the economy gets bad. Second, because people became very aware of the influence of national economic conditions on their personal circumstances, perceptions of the national economy came to play a larger role in assessments of the ruling party's performance, and sociotropic voting is becoming more salient.
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