2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Political awareness of citizen and the structure of community in Japan.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	16530090
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Politics
Research Institution	Aichigakusen University
Principal Investigator	MIFUNE Tsuyoshi Aichigakusen University, a departaiient of community and policy, associate professor, コミュニティ政策学部, 助教授 (00308800)
Project Period (FY)	2004 – 2005
Keywords	Political Participation / Social Capital / Voting Behavior / Political Culture
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of the structure of community on the Japanese voter. I investigated Japanese in Aichi Prefecture in 2005. This study has three points. First, I studied that the citizen participated in voluntary sector, and the structure of voluntary sector in Japan. The following result was obtained many resemblances between voluntary sector and civil movement. Secondly, I analyzed the structure of japanses political participation with Partial Order Scale gram Analysis. The following result was obtained 4th-demensional structure of political participation modes. And, this structure has stood for deepening process of individual political participation. Thirdly, I studied the cost of voting. The following result was obtained social capital reducing the cost of voting.

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