| Author Name | HORIUCHI Yusaku (Dartmouth College) / ONO Yoshikuni (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) |
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| Creation Date/NO. | July 2018 18-E-050 |
| Research Project | Research on Political Behavior and Decision Making: Searching for evidence-based solutions to political challenges in the economy and industry |
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Abstract
Ferwerda, Flynn and Horiuchi (2017) showed a not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) attitude toward refugee resettlement among Americans and their responsiveness to threatening media frames. Our study extends their experimental study with a focus on Japan. We conceptualize two types of NIMBY-ism with regard to refugee resettlement within-country and between-country NIMBY-ism and manipulate the proximity to a threat in media frames. The findings suggest that Japanese people are not only prone to free-ride other countries' efforts to address the global refugee crisis, exhibiting a larger sentiment of between-country NIMBY-ism, but also susceptible to threatening frames regardless of whether a threat is directly relevant to Japan. While conscious interactions with foreigners make them less susceptible to those frames, such interactions are rare for most Japanese. These results imply a continued challenge for Japan to accept more refugees, at least in the short term.
Published: Horiuchi, Yusaku, and Yoshikuni Ono, 2022. "Social contact and attitudes toward outsiders: The case of Japan," Research & Politics, Volume 10, Issue 1 (2023).
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20531680221134200
Published: Horiuchi, Yusaku, and Yoshikuni Ono, 2023. "Susceptibility to threatening information and attitudes toward refugee resettlement: The case of Japan," Journal of Peace Research, Volume 60, Issue 3 (2023), 459–473.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433221079455
