Koizumi carried the day: Did the Japanese election results make people happy and unhappy?

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This paper investigates whether Japanese people were happy and unhappy with the general election conducted on September 11, 2005, in which the Prime Minister, Koizumi, won a landslide victory. We conducted a large survey just after the election to ask people how happy they were and which party they had supported. Although there are consistent tendencies that supporters of ruling parties were happier and supporters of opposition parties were unhappier, the effect was not significant. Considering the results of a previous study that showed that Americans demonstrated significant responses to the result of a presidential election, this study suggests that Japanese people are indifferent to politics.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ISER Discussion Paper ; No. 695

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; Classification Discontinued 2008. See C83.
• Subject: election ; happiness ; Koizumi Cabinet ; survey ; Japan ; Wahlverhalten ; Zufriedenheit ; Schätzung ; Japan

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Tsutsui, Yoshiro ; Kimball, Miles ; Ohtake, Fumio
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (where): Osaka
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/92603
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET