Voting Rights of the ‘Marginal’: The Contested Logic of Political Membership in Japan

Kalicki, Konrad

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“…In 1995, in a case where Korean residents in Japan sought voting rights in local elections, the Supreme Court ruled that “granting local voting rights did not violate the Constitution and the parliament can enact a statute without amending the Constitution” (Kondo 2002: 420). Since this Supreme Court decision was made, the Japanese government has discussed the possibility of granting local voting rights to foreign residents, but it has yet to do so (see Day 2009 and Kalicki 2008 for reviews of the political debate). The ruling party, especially the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, has been reluctant to introduce voting rights because of the small number of potential voters who would support the party and the small political payoff (Chung 2010).…”

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Who Should Call for Advocacies? The Influence of Rights Advocates on the Public's Attitude Toward Immigrants’ Voting Rights in Japan

Igarashi

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2022

J. East Asian Stud.

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Native allies are critical to the success of immigrants’ social movements in East Asian countries because of their relatively small number. However, it remains unclear whether advocacy messages from natives or from immigrants are more effective in changing natives’ attitudes toward supporting immigrant-oriented policies. We hypothesize, from the perspective of social identity theory, that the persuasiveness of a message varies, depending on the identity of the group sending the message—that is, whether it is an in-group or an out-group. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a survey experiment using the case of granting local voting rights to immigrants in Japan. We found that support for granting local voting rights to immigrants does not decrease when the Japanese hear advocacy messages from the Japanese, however, it does decrease when they hear messages from Korean immigrants who stand to benefit from the granting of local suffrage. These results suggest that natives’ advocacy messages may increase support for immigrants.

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Who Should Call for Advocacies? The Influence of Rights Advocates on the Public's Attitude Toward Immigrants’ Voting Rights in Japan

Igarashi

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2022

J. East Asian Stud.

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“… 2 Preliminary (and only partial) attempts have recently been made in the context of Japan and South Korea (see Kalicki, 2008, 2009). …”

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“… 7 As Maley (2000) explains, democratic states are not obliged to enfranchise their nationals who are residing overseas, and the decision on whether or not this should be done is generally a domestic political one (see also Blais et al ., 2001; Grace, 2007; International IDEA, 2006; Spiro, 2006). Likewise, numerous European, Latin American, African, and Asia-Pacific democracies extend in some form electoral rights to their foreign residents, and the ongoing debates elsewhere suggest that a number of other states are considering following suit (see Blais et al ., 2001; Earnest, 2004, 2005, 2006; Kalicki, 2008; Katz, 2000; Lardy, 1997; Waldrauch, 2003). …”

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Electoral Rights beyond Territory and beyond Citizenship? The Case of South Korea

Kalicki¹

2009

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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Current world migration is disrupting conceptual boundaries of national democratic polities. One area where the traditional sense of political community is being challenged concerns electoral rights for non-resident citizens and non-citizen residents. With the right to vote being an ultimate expression of political membership in a democratic nation-state, any debates about these two groups’ suffrage rights constitute a critical source of empirical insights into how democracies re-imagine themselves away from fixed identities under the pressure of globalization. In view of this, this paper examines the understudied case of South Korea, utilizing the most systematic theoretical framework currently available: one developed by Rainer Bauböck. It provides direct empirical evidence that undermines the conventional wisdom that Koreans define their polity purely on the basis of their ethnicity. Contrary to our expectations, a close scrutiny of the Korean debates in question reveals ample references to the civic ideals of political community. The line of reasoning that emphasizes duties towards the welfare of the polity has produced powerful justifications for denying political franchise to overseas compatriots, while granting limited electoral rights to qualified resident foreigners. A broader implication of this empirical finding is that it highlights a fundamental limitation of Bauböck's theoretical framework: it conceives political franchise only as an expression of people's rights in regard to law-making. The case of South Korea, thus, suggests that Bauböck's scheme should be modified to address both the rights-based logics and the somewhat obsolete duty-based logic of franchise extension.

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Local Citizenship and Policy Agenda for ‘Foreign Residents’ in East Asia

Hwang¹

2014

Multicultural Challenges and Sustainable Democracy in Europe and East Asia

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Voting Rights of the ‘Marginal’: The Contested Logic of Political Membership in Japan

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Who Should Call for Advocacies? The Influence of Rights Advocates on the Public's Attitude Toward Immigrants’ Voting Rights in Japan

Who Should Call for Advocacies? The Influence of Rights Advocates on the Public's Attitude Toward Immigrants’ Voting Rights in Japan

Electoral Rights beyond Territory and beyond Citizenship? The Case of South Korea

Local Citizenship and Policy Agenda for ‘Foreign Residents’ in East Asia

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