Diffusing the Abolitionist Norm in Japan
EU ‘Death Penalty Diplomacy’ and the Gap between Rhetoric and Reality in EU–Japan Relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10071128 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Bacon (0000-0001-9425-9491, Waseda University Tokyo, corresponding author), Hidetoshi Nakamura (0000-0002-1451-6783, Waseda University Tokyo) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1230-1246 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jcms.13177 |
| OpenAlex | W3132038287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article uses Börzel and Risse's norm diffusion framework to conceptualize and evaluate the EU's ‘death penalty diplomacy’ in Japan. Despite the ‘exceptional’ nature of Japanese politics with regard to the death penalty the EU has enjoyed numerous successes in its attempts to diffuse the abolitionist norm within Japan. These successes have occurred through both direct and indirect methods of norm diffusion, and through socialization, persuasion and functional emulation. Despite the dramatic increase in executions in Japan in 2018, in practice the EU and Japan have established an understanding that executions will in future stabilize at a low and symbolic level. The EU has also co‐funded research that successfully challenged the Japanese government's public opinion polling‐based justification for retaining the death penalty. This research also played an important role in socializing and persuading the Japanese Federation of Bar Associations to change its official position and to support the abolition of the death penalty
Diplomacy · Law and economics · Norm (philosophy · Persuasion · Pledge · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Rhetoric · Sociology · Comparative and International Law Studies · European and International Law Studies · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Death Penalty
The Next Frontier
Domestic Non-Compliance with an EU Norm
Public opinion and the death penalty in Japan
From Europeanisation to Diffusion
Normative Power Europe, Once Again
Activists beyond borders
The Construction of EU Normative Power
International Norms, Domestic Politics, and the Death Penalty
| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |