Generational Gap in Japanese Politics A Longitudinal Study of Politi
After decades of stable and seemingly semi-permanent single-party dominance, Japanese politics have gone through fundamental changes since the early 1990s. Government ministries have been reorganised, prime ministerial powers strengthened, and rules for e
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Willy Jou and Masahisa Endo
Generational Gap in Japanese Politics
Willy Jou • Masahisa Endo
Generational Gap in Japanese Politics A Longitudinal Study of Political Attitudes and Behaviour
Willy Jou School of Political Science and Economics Waseda University Tokyo, Japan
Masahisa Endo Faculty of Humanities and Economics Kochi University Kochi City, Kochi, Japan
ISBN 978-1-137-50340-4 ISBN 978-1-137-50342-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-50342-8
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CONTENTS
1 Introduction
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Understanding Ideological Semantics
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Perceptions of Parties’ Ideological Locations and the Generation Gap
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Ideological Voting: Generational and Educational Effects
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Comparing Ideological Labels
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6 Profiling Radical Right Support
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7 Conclusion
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Index
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ABOUT
THE
AUTHORS
Willy Jou is an associate professor at Waseda University, Japan. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine, and has written on attitudes toward the political system, understanding of ideology, and electoral systems. He is the co-author of Why Policy Representation Matters. Masahisa Endo is a lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities and Economics, Kochi University, Japan. His research interests span voting behaviour, electoral mobilization, party politics, and survey methodology. His work has appeared in Japan Decides 2014: Japanese General Election. He holds an MA in Government from Cornell University, USA.
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Perceived ideological polarization: LDP–JCP distance, 1983–2010 Perceived LDP ideological position
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