Politics of COVID-19 vaccination in Japan: how governing incumbents' representation affected regional rollout variation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite initial delay, Japan's COVID-19 vaccination accelerated remarkably from May to September 2021 under the leadership of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. His "campaign" for vaccination, however, did not yield uniform results nationwide.

Methods

To highlight political determinants for the regional variation, we employ ordinary least squares regression analyses to investigate how the share/presence of incumbent politicians belonging to the governing parties, the Liberal Democratic Party and Komei Party, influenced the varying progress of rollouts across prefectures as well as across cities/towns/villages. The data on the vaccination rate for all 47 prefectures was obtained from Government Chief Information Officer (CIO)'s Portal, Japan (GCPJ) approximately one mo

SUBMITTER: Kikuchi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021041 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature