The Representation of East Asia in Latin American Legislatures
The Representation of East Asia in Latin American Legislatures
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东亚在拉丁美洲立法机构中的代表权
DOI：
10.1142/s1013251117400057
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2017
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KIKUCHI HIROKAZU
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松戸清裕（編集）;野部公一;徳永昌弘;浅川あや子;河本和子;大串敦;油本真理;藤沢潤;佐々木卓也;湯浅剛;KIKUCHI HIROKAZU
东亚在拉丁美洲立法机构中的代表性如何？现有的研究主要集中在以秘鲁前总统藤森为代表的东亚裔政治家个人身上，而对东亚裔在拉美的政治代表性尚未进行系统的研究。为了填补这一空白，本研究分析了东亚代表在拉丁美洲的描述性和实质性方面。在描述性方面，本文考察了拉美各国东亚裔议员的构成，发现秘鲁和阿根廷的下议院中，日本裔议员的代表性“过高”，而韩国和中国裔议员的代表性不足。以巴西众议院为例，本研究还揭示了东亚裔议员在政治生涯方面不同于其他议员。在实质性层面，本研究主要关注巴西代表对中国在拉美最大的基础设施项目之一--双洋铁路项目的反应。在这项研究中进行的统计测试表明，代表往往是巴西-秘鲁-中国亲双洋铁路核心小组的成员，如果他们隶属于巴西-日本核心小组，如果他们来自一个富裕的国家，或者如果他们在上次选举中表现良好。此外，如果她们隶属于重要的反对党巴西社会民主党，就不可能成为核心小组成员。
What is the representation of East Asia in Latin American legislatures? Existing studies have focused on individual politicians of East Asian descent such as Alberto Fujimori, former president of Peru, but no systematic research has been done on the political representation of East Asia in Latin America. In order to fill this gap, this study analyzes the descriptive and substantive aspects of East Asian representation in Latin America. For the descriptive dimension, this article reviews the composition of legislators of East Asian descent in each Latin American country and finds that people of Japanese descent are “overrepresented” in the Peruvian and Argentine lower houses, while people of Korean and Chinese descent are underrepresented. Using the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies as an example, this study also reveals that deputies of East Asian descent differ from other deputies in terms of their political careers. As for the substantive dimension, this study focuses on Brazilian deputies’ responses to the Twin Ocean Railroad project, one of the largest Chinese infrastructure projects in Latin America. The statistical test performed in this study shows that the deputies tend to be members of the Brazil–Peru–China Pro-Twin Ocean Railroad Caucus if they are affiliated with the Brazil–Japan Caucus, if they are from a wealthier state, or if their performance in the last election was good. In addition, they are not likely to be members of the caucus if they are affiliated with the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB), an important opposition party.