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

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. The Internet and the Americanization of Electoral Campaigning in East Asian Democracies

   • Kazuhiro Maeshima

   Pages 1-25

3. Characteristics of US Elections in the Digital Media Age

   • Diana Owen

   Pages 27-53

4. Comparing Institutional Factors That Influence Internet Campaigning in the US, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

   • Shoko Kiyohara

   Pages 55-78

5. Media Environments in the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

   • Morihiro Ogasahara

   Pages 79-113

6. Is the Power of Online Campaigning in Japanese Electoral Politics a Myth? A Causal Inference Analysis of the 2013 Upper House Election

   • Tetsuro Kobayashi

   Pages 115-136

7. A New Trend in Internet Election Campaigning: The Use of Smartphone Apps in the 2014 South Korean Local Elections

   • Hongchun Lee

   Pages 137-164

8. When Elections Become Social Movements: Emerging “Citizen-Initiated” Campaigning in Taiwan

   • Boyu Chen

   Pages 165-188

9. Conclusion: The Development of Digital Democracy in East Asia

   • Shoko Kiyohara, Kazuhiro Maeshima, Diana Owen

   Pages 189-205

10. Back Matter

    Pages 207-212

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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. 

• Internet election campaigns in the United States
• Internet election campaigns in Japan
• Internet election campaign in South Korea
• Internet election campaign in Taiwan
• Japanese political communication
• South Korean political communication
• U.S. political communication
• Taiwanese political communication
• Americanization of elections
• East Asian democracies
• comparative East Asain politics
• paid advertisements in election campaigning
• social media in election campaigning
• Elections in the Digital Media Age
• elections and the media
• digital democracy
• election campaigning and technology
• us politics

• 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

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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