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.
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Keywords
- 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
Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Internet Election Campaigns in the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
Editors: Shoko Kiyohara, Kazuhiro Maeshima, Diana Owen
Series Title: Political Campaigning and Communication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63682-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63681-8Published: 27 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87613-9Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63682-5Published: 17 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-589X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5903
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 212
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Communication, Asian Politics, Comparative Politics, US Politics