Societal pessimism in Japan, the United States, and The Netherlands
Abstract This paper starts out with a theoretical argument, based on panel data, that public mood in general and societal pessimism in particular should be measured from an explicitly temporal perspective. Next, based on a survey among more than 200 Japanese students and a wide array of existing (longitudinal) data sources in three different languages and covering several decades it is shown that public mood in three quite different countries – first and foremost Japan, but also the United States and The Netherlands – is quite apprehensive. In all these three countries societal pessimism can b... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Japanese Journal of Political Science ; volume 17, issue 3, page 427-450 ; ISSN 1468-1099 1474-0060 |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27629341 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1468109916000177 |