2000년대 일본 국회의원들의 보수성향에 대한 실증 분석

Abstract

This study empirically verify how the policy orientations of the House of Representative lawmakers have been changed in 2000s. The major study objects are as follows: How the members’ hardline conservatism in security policies have been strengthened and what are the effect factors to magnify the conservatism. For this purpose, four survey data of the general election candidates conducted by The Asahi Shimbun and The Mainichi Newspapers are analyzed. Analysis results report that the member’s hardline conservatism in security policies has been magnified on account of increase of hardline conservatives and decrease of liberals. And the hardline conservatism is considerably affected by the policy orientations of national social issues such as intensifying traditional ethic, limit of privacy for the public order, foreigners’ political suffrage in Japan with permanent residency, the historical judgment on prime minister’s visiting the war- linked Yasukuni Shrine, and controvercies concerning the Pacific War, whether it was an invasion or self-defense. The hardline conservatism in security policies have proliferated over 2000’s in the lawmakers of the leading opposition Democratic Party of Japan as well as the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.