Political attitudes in Tokyo, Japan, 1962

Description

This study, conducted in 1962, is the third in a series of studies of political parties in metropolitan Tokyo conducted by Kyokai. The study presents a thorough investigation of the four largest political parties in Japan in 1962: Liberal Democratic, Democratic Socialist, Socialist, and Communist. The respondents are asked their opinions of each party, important criteria on which they judge political parties, and which parties they could never support. A large portion of the survey probes the respondents' impressions of each of the four parties individually. This is done through a lengthy scaling procedure giving each party's degree of fairness, trustworthiness, strength, consistency, affluence, independence, persuasiveness, capability, and seriousness of purpose. A series of demographic variables concentrates on occupational information.