Abstract:

The electoral geographic world system method can explain the role and significance of electoral diversification in different regions of the world economy. This paper focuses on the 2017 Japanese General Election and combines the world system analysis method with electoral politics to explore the political tussle between different interest groups in international free trade and domestic agricultural policy reform. This reveals the relationship between global geopolitical economic changes and local elections. The results show that: (1) Due to the "incumbency effect" caused by low-information and low-participation elections, the one-party dominance pattern of the liberal Democratic Party is stable, but the intensity of the election in urban and rural areas varies greatly, and the representativeness is increasingly unbalanced; (2) The global neoliberalism promotes the reconstruction of Japan's economic space and the change of its electoral power, forming the political geography of power based on free trade economic geography and the political geography of support based on traditional agricultural culture geography; (3) By adjusting the power relationship between the agricultural interest groups and the prime minister, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) regime reformed the agricultural policy and closed the separation between the supporting geography and the power geography.

Key words: world-system, electoral geography, neoliberalization, populism, agricultural policy

摘要：

世界体系方法可以解释世界经济中不同地区选举多样化的作用和意义。聚焦于2017年日本大选，将世界体系分析方法与选举政治相结合，探讨国际自由贸易和国内农业政策改革中不同利益群体的政治角力，从而揭示出全球地缘政治经济的变化与地方选举之间的关系。结果表明：（1）低信息和低参与的选举导致“现职效应”，自民党一党优位的格局稳定，但城乡选区的竞选激烈程度差异较大，代表性日趋失衡；（2）全球新自由主义推动日本经济空间重构与选举动力变化，形成基于自由贸易的权力政治和基于传统农业文化的支持政治；（3）自民党政权通过调整农业利益集团与首相的权力关系，改革农业政策，弥合支持政治与权力政治之间的割裂。

关键词: 世界体系, 选举地理, 新自由主义, 保护主义, 农业政策