Format:
24 Seiten
ISBN:
978-3-9812131-3-3
Content:
Political Responses to Low Fertility: A New Perspective on Attempts to Govern Japan’s Demographic Development Ageing of society has been a growing threat to most domains of life in Japan. Economy, society and the political system will be just as heavily affected as social security systems, education and family structures. One crucial instrument to fight this development is pro-natal policy. Since the early 1990s, the political elite has agreed on the urgent need to come up with policy to encourage young Japanese to have (more) children, and since then, the goal of pro-natal policy has not been contested by any political party. In spite of this unanimity, however, the LDP-Kōmeitō coalition governments for the most part did not present the issue as a priority on their agenda. Why? This paper takes a psychological approach to add new insights into this question. The intrinsic motivation of ten national lawmakers from both ruling parties is analyzed in order to test the explanatory potential of the approach itself as well as to understand the behavior of individual social policy actors. The results of the study confirm the approach’s applicability and also show that the intrinsic motivation of most of the examined lawmakers was insufficient to turn them into (badly needed) effective policy sponsors.
In:
Japan 2010 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 2010, (2010), Seite 99-122, 978-3-9812131-3-3
In:
year:2010
In:
pages:99-122
Language:
German
Keywords:
Japan
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Bevölkerungspolitik
DOI:
10.48796/20231012-016
URN:
urn:nbn:de:0308-20231012-016-8
Author information:
Klein, Axel 1967-
