Political communication and disagreement among citizens in Japan and the United States
Political communication and disagreement among citizens in Japan and the United States
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DOI：
10.1023/a:1017617630744
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发表时间：
2001-03-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Huckfeldt, R
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作者：
Ikeda, K;Huckfeldt, R
公民之间相互依存的模式给民主政治的比较分析增加了额外的复杂性。在这篇文章中，我们研究了日本和美国公民之间的沟通和分歧。我们认为，在政治沟通中的一个多数主义偏见在这两种情况下运作，但它往往会延续一党统治的制度在日本政治。对民主公民身份的比较研究一般侧重于个人所持政治信仰和价值观在不同国家背景下的差异。我们的论点是，公民身份和民主政治的替代文化与个人所携带的特殊信仰和价值观关系不大，而与政治沟通的背景嵌入性质关系更大。我们解决这些问题，使用两个社区为基础的研究，一个在南本德，印第安纳州，在1984年和其他在文京区，东京，在1997年进行。
Patterns of interdependence among and between citizens add an additional level of complexity to a comparative analysis of democratic politics. In this article we examine communication and disagreement among citizens in Japan and the United States. We argue that a majoritarian bias in political communication operates in both settings, but it tends to perpetuate a system of one-party dominance in Japanese politics. Comparative studies of democratic citizenship have focused generally on the variation across national contexts in the political beliefs and values held by individuals. Our argument is that citizenship and the alternative cultures of democratic politics have less to do with the idiosyncratic beliefs and values that individuals carry with them and more to do with the contextually embedded nature of political communication. We address these issues using two community-based studies, one conducted in South Bend, Indiana, in 1984 and the other in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, in 1997.