Understanding Welfare Politics in Northeast Asia with Multiple Cleavages

理解多重分裂的东北亚福利政治

• 批准号: 16F16308
• 负责人: MCELWAIN KENNETH
• 金额: $ 0.9万
• 依托单位: The University of Tokyo
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2016-11-07 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-16F16308/
• 关键词: political cleavages; social welfare; Japan; Taiwan; Korea; legislation; Cleavages; Political parties; East Asia; Measurement; Mixed-methods; Democratic transition

This project examines the origin and development of key political cleavages in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Cleavages separate voters into advocates and adversaries on a certain issue or into voting for a certain party. The central puzzle stems from the unique contexts of East Asia, in which encompassing trade unions and left-wing parties have not been the primary political forces of the latest expansions in social welfare. Applying Lipset and Rokkan’s seminal work on cleavage and party politics (1967), our analysis suggests that major politicized cleavages in the three Asian countries have not revolved around social-distribution issues, but instead focus on nationalism, provincialism, or rural-urban divisions.Specifically, we triangulate results from multiple datasets such as manifestos, elite surveys, voting patterns, public opinion surveys, roll call votes, bill sponsor/co-sponsorship, and newspaper articles. We examine the primary cleavages formed during each country’s democratic transition by looking at how basic legislative dimensions such as the numbers, proportion, success ratio, and duration of submitted bills have differed over time. Moreover, 15 English-language published papers on measuring political cleavages―either explicitly or implicitly―in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan are examined using quantitative datasets. Collectively, these sources include both mass and elite level data.

这个项目考察了韩国、日本和台湾的主要政治分裂的起源和发展。分裂将选民分成在某个问题上的支持者和反对者，或者投票给某个政党。核心难题源于东亚的独特背景，在东亚，工会和左翼政党并不是最新一轮社会福利扩张的主要政治力量。应用Lipset和Rokkan关于乳沟和政党政治的开创性工作(1967)，我们的分析表明，这三个亚洲国家的主要政治化乳沟并没有围绕社会分配问题，而是专注于民族主义、地方主义或城乡分歧。具体地说，我们三角测量了来自多个数据集的结果，如宣言、精英调查、投票模式、民意调查、唱名投票、法案发起人/共同发起人和报纸文章。我们通过观察提交法案的数量、比例、成功率和持续时间等基本立法维度随时间的变化，来审查每个国家在民主转型期间形成的主要裂痕。此外，对韩国、日本和台湾发表的15篇关于测量政治分裂的英文论文--无论是明确的还是含蓄的--进行了量化数据集的研究。总的来说，这些来源既包括大众数据，也包括精英级别的数据。

项目成果

Understanding Welfare Politics in Northeast Asia with Multiple Cleavages: A Multi-Method Analysis

理解多重分裂的东北亚福利政治：多方法分析

• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Shim;Jaemin;Jaemin Shim
• 通讯作者: Jaemin Shim

Parties, Legislators, and Social Investment Politics in East Asia

东亚政党、立法者和社会投资政治

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Shim;Jaemin
• 通讯作者: Jaemin

Gender and Politics in Northeast Asia

东北亚的性别与政治

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: TRONU;Carla;トロヌ・カルラ;トロヌ・カルラ;トロヌ・カルラ;Jaemin Shim;Jaemin Shim
• 通讯作者: Jaemin Shim

Politics of Social Investment Policies in East Asia

东亚社会投资政策政治

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: TRONU;Carla;トロヌ・カルラ;トロヌ・カルラ;トロヌ・カルラ;Jaemin Shim
• 通讯作者: Jaemin Shim

Convergence and Divergence of Mass-Elite Political Cleavages in East Asia

东亚大众与精英政治分歧的趋同与分歧

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Shim;Jaemin
• 通讯作者: Jaemin