Generational Gap in Japanese Politics

Jou, Willy; Endo, Masahisa

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“…A second characteristic of Japan is that economic inequality is a familiar issue for citizens. Notwithstanding, opinions on economic issues do not predict political attitudes among Japanese voters, at least superficially (Jou and Endo, 2016).…”

Section: Reasons For Focusing On Japanmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Even though economic inequality is a familiar issue for many voters, there is no strong relationship between political attitudes and perceptions of inequality among Japanese voters. Empirical studies indicate that left-right ideology and opinions on "big governmentsmall government" have not been closely linked in Japan for a long time (Jou and Endo, 2016). Similarly, a recent investigation showed that Japanese voters do not associate left-right ideological labels with economic issues (Miwa et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 98%

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The role of system justification theory in support of the government under long-term conservative party dominance in Japan

Nakagoshi

Inamasu

2023

Front. Psychol.

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The applicability of system justification theory (SJT) in Japan, where political contexts differ from those in Western countries, was evaluated in this study. SJT explains the psychological mechanisms underlying conservatism. Japan, which has a relatively long history as a democracy among East Asian countries, has a special political context. For instance, (1) it has had almost uninterrupted conservative governance since the end of World War II; and (2) unlike Western countries, opinions on economic issues are not clearly linked to conservative attitudes. A web survey of Japanese voters (n = 1,428) revealed that high general system justification (GSJ) and economic system justification (ESJ) were correlated with conservatism. Further, path analysis results showed that GSJ and ESJ predicted conservative attitudes. Additional analysis suggested that the status-legitimacy hypothesis, in which lower status groups have higher system justification motives, is not supported.

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Section: Reasons For Focusing On Japanmentioning

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confidence: 98%

The role of system justification theory in support of the government under long-term conservative party dominance in Japan

Nakagoshi

Inamasu

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…6Selecting different temporal breaking points (such as 1993, after the first alternation in power in Japan, or the early 1980s when a change in the meaning of ideology seems to have taken place in the Japanese case, Jou and Endo 2016) does not affect any of our conclusions reported below. The same results are found if we include words in the analysis that are mentioned in a minimum number of documents (in our case 10% of the total), thus essentially keeping words that are deemed important enough to be mentioned over time.…”

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The Intensity of Government–Opposition Divide as Measured through Legislative Speeches and What We Can Learn from It: Analyses of Japanese Parliamentary Debates, 1953–2013

2018

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Through the analysis of legislative speeches made by prime ministers and party representatives in parliamentary sessions in Japan from 1953 to 2013, we argue that it is possible to place parties according to a dimension that captures their confrontational nature within a parliamentary democracy and its evolution over time. Using this dimension extracted via a well-known scaling algorithm (Wordfish), we develop an index of the intensity of the government–opposition divide that is directly related to the dynamics of the electoral cycle of Japanese politics. We then show how this new index greatly facilitates the investigation of two important aspects of Japanese legislative politics (the survival rate of governments and the speed of passage of cabinet bills) compared to a situation in which we focus on more traditional measures capturing the ideological position of the parties alone.

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“…We do not reject the economic arguments reviewed above but argue that the role of values has not been assessed adequately in addition to the mainstream accounts based on economic evaluations and policy proximity. Given the changing environment of party competition on the supply-side and the changing nature of perceived ideology (Jou and Endo, 2016) on the demand-side in recent decades, it seems pertinent to assess the role of values and economy together in a systematic manner.…”

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Still valuable? Reconsidering the role of authoritarian values among Japanese voters

Berlucchi

Hino

2022

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has dominated Japanese politics since its foundation in 1955. The party's ability to support the interests of small farmers and its commitment to the middle-class through redistributive economic policies have been regarded as among the primary factors leading to its prolonged hegemony. Yet, the LDP has occasionally relied on non-economic political appeals addressing rather conservative issues such as Japan's military force and the country's traditional values. These appeals have significantly intensified under the premiership of Junichirō Koizumi and his successor Shinzō Abe, whose authoritative leadership styles and nationalist agendas reveal the relevance of non-economic values. This study focuses on the role of authoritarian values in shaping vote choice in twenty-first century Japan. Previously emphasized in The Japanese Voter, the authority–liberty dimension has gradually lost prominence in recent models of voting behavior, where socio-economic factors have had a central role in explaining vote choice. Our inquiry places new emphasis on this value dimension and provides evidence for the enduring relevance of individual authoritarian dispositions in models of vote choice.

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Generational Gap in Japanese Politics

Cited by 31 publications

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The role of system justification theory in support of the government under long-term conservative party dominance in Japan

The role of system justification theory in support of the government under long-term conservative party dominance in Japan

The Intensity of Government–Opposition Divide as Measured through Legislative Speeches and What We Can Learn from It: Analyses of Japanese Parliamentary Debates, 1953–2013

Still valuable? Reconsidering the role of authoritarian values among Japanese voters

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