Publication Date:
2024-03-29
Description:
This book is an integrated examination of Japanese politics in the first two decades of the 21st century, as viewed from the perspective of ""anxiety over governance.""
By empirically highlighting the social-environmental, political environmental, and sociocultural changes that have underlined the long-term political participation and voting behavior of Japanese citizens, the book provides deep insight into how modern democracies function and are perceived in post-industrial societies and reveals the specific processes by which Japanese politics have changed. Additionally, the book provides an analysis of the decline in social capital, the shrinking variety of political parties, and the intermingling of Asian values with liberal democratic values. By examining anxiety over governance, the chapters explore the links between anxiety and Japanese political behavior, revealing that, despite the high regard for democratic politics, Japanese citizens generally experienced a high level of anxiety and negative evaluation of the government, including countermeasures against COVID-19.
Featuring surveys of Japanese political behavior over a period of more than 40 years, this book will be valuable reading for students and scholars of Japanese Politics, Political Behavior, and Psychology.
The introduction, chapter 4 and chapter 5 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Keywords:
Freedom House Score,Governance Index,National Risk Perceptions,WVS Data,Political Distrust,Global Peace Index,Risk Perceptions,Country Level Average,Lower Ability Ratings,Institutional Trust,Risk Perception Scale,Prospective Expectations,Risk Perception Items,Social Risk Perception,Press Ranking,Abs,Abe Liberal Democratic Party,Country Specific Effects,Diffuse Anxiety,Democratic Governance,Japanese Citizens,WVS,High Risk Perception,Japanese Governance,Voluntary Organizations
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPH Political structure & processes::JPHF Elections & referenda
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPH Political structure & processes
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPQ Central government
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bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTB Regional studies
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHF Elections and referenda / suffrage
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government
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thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
Language:
English
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