SHINADA Yutaka | ![]() |
Graduate School of Law / Division of Law and Political Science | |
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This study uses survey data to examine empirically the effect of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 on attitudes towards politics. Drawing upon Terror Management Theory, we hypothesize that the earthquake triggered a fear of death in people, thus tilting their attitudes more conservative. Terror Management Theory postulates that exposure to a fear of death activates a psychological self-defense mechanism in people, who try to escape this fear by, for example, excessively embracing culture and building up their own egos. This article examines whether the fear of death triggered by the earthquake caused people in the disaster areas to becomemore conservative through an excessive embrace of political culture. To test this hypothesis, we rely on the Japanese Election Study IV, which provides panel data derived before and after the earthquake. Using this data, we empirically analyze changes in values, liberal-conservative ideology, materialism, and patriotism.
Springer Singapore, 31 Oct. 2017, Reconstruction of the Public Sphere in the Socially Mediated Age, 181 - 200, English[Refereed]
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This article examines how and why Japanese politicians promise the pork barrels to their constituencies. Analyzing the data of the electoral pledges which are classified by both the target and the content, the following findings are obtained, (1) candidates of conservative camp prefer the local-based pork barrels, (2) transportation, construction and promotion of local economy are more appealed to local communities rather than the whole people or some groups of voters, (3) local pork barrels were mentioned in 1990 most, and have been reduced later in the boom of reform, and (4) they have been survived through elections at high rate, especially after 1993. And also we test two hypotheses; one correlates the power of politicians and pork barrels, and the other regards the electoral vulnerability as their motive. Our data shows they are compatible, though the power hypothesis is predominant. This suggests the Japanese exclusive and systematic process of distribute policies is still well-functioned, while freshmen or weak politicians can get some peripheral pork barrels and the survival chances.
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