War,democratization, and generational cohort effects on participation in Japan |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Politics, Languages and International Relations, University of Bath, 1 West North, Bath BA2 7AY, UK;2. Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK;3. Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;4. School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK;5. Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK;1. Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK;2. Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK;3. Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA |
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| Abstract: | Studies show that both democratization and war mobilization boost levels of participation enduringly among members of the generational cohort that come of age around the time. But little is known about the relative effects of war mobilization and democratization on long-term participation rates among impressionable generations that experience both. We address this question by examining generational cohort effects by gender, drawing on newly available data on the case of Japan. Age-period-cohort analyses of the Survey on Japanese Value Orientations (1973–2013) show that the increase in lifelong participation rates of the “war generation” over prewar generations was much greater for men than for women, thus suggesting that the high rates of participation among members of this cohort are driven more by mobilization than by democratization. This finding yields significant implications for the analysis of democratic consolidation in different parts of the world. |
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| Keywords: | Political participation Generational cohort effects Japan Gender War mobilization Democratization |
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