Who Gets Close to the Government's Policy Position and Who Steps Away? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Japan

• In Event: Representation and Responsiveness

Brief Overview

We investigate how government's policy positions affect voters' positions by survey experiments with fake newspaper articles in which the prime minister states his policy position with or without conservative/progressive justification.

Authors

• Sohei Shigemura, Kobe University

• Jaehyun Song, Waseda University

• Keisuke Tani, Kobe University

• Yuki Yanai, Kochi University of Technology