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Internet Election Campaigns in the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

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Overview

  • Analyses contextual factors affecting the development of Internet election campaigns
  • Provides a comparative analysis of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan with the U.S. from 2012 to 2016
  • Examines how techniques and innovations developed in the U.S. might apply to other contexts

Part of the book series: Political Campaigning and Communication (PCC)

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This book investigates how institutional differences, such as the roles of political parties and the regulation of electoral systems, affect the development of Internet election campaigns in the U.S., Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. It examines whether or not the “Americanization of elections” is evident in East Asian democracies. While Japan is a parliamentary system, the U.S. and Korea are presidential systems and Taiwan is a semi-presidential system that has a president along with a parliamentary system. Furthermore, the role of the presidency in the U.S., Korea, and Taiwan is quite different. Taking these variations in political systems into consideration, the authors discuss how the electoral systems are regulated in relation to issues such as paid advertisements and campaign periods. They argue that stronger regulation of election systems and shorter election periods in Japan characterize Japanese uniqueness compared with the U.S., Korea, and Taiwan in terms of Internet election campaigns. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Information and Communication, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan

    Shoko Kiyohara

  • Department of Global Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

    Kazuhiro Maeshima

  • Communication, Culture, and Technology, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA

    Diana Owen

About the editors

Shoko Kiyohara is Associate Professor in the School of Information and Communication, Meiji University, Japan and Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University, USA. She was awarded the 2014 Abe Fellowship.

Kazuhiro Maeshima is Professor in the Department of Global Studies, Sophia University, Japan.

Diana Owen is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Communication, Culture, and Technology graduate program at Georgetown University, USA.

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