candidate to win an election, even though his main agenda item (i.e., postal privatization) is strongly opposed by special …

try to win the election with as little concessions as possible. The efficient amount of concessions and their distribution … efficient amount of concessions depends on the closeness of the election race. The closer the initial distribution of votes, the …

incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next election held in 2002 is investigated. The fact that different group of …

Election in 2009. We conducted a daily web survey for seven days before and after the election, obtaining1068 responses … significantly unhappier on the day following the election. However, happiness returned to the previous level in one or two days … that the happiness level of those whose expectation of the election results were realized did not change, while that of …

This paper investigates whether Japanese people were happy and unhappy with the general election conducted on September … election to ask people how happy they were and which party they had supported. Although there are consistent tendencies that … presidential election, this study suggests that Japanese people are indifferent to politics. …