Japan: 120 years of suffrage. Characteristics of functionning of territorial political systems on election day
It was considered voter turnout in Japan continuously for the period of 120 years. It was made a quantitative analysis of the number of prefectures in size and voter turnout, compared with the average turnout in the country. Formation and dynamics of the average voter turnout showed that at extremely high indices the geographic specificity of turnout is weak, territorial diversity increases along with a decrease of interest in voting. It was revealed the regularity of the ratio of active–medium–passive regions, which reflects the balance of political power through the «center–periphery (regions)» at the time of voting. The proposed model of studies of the characteristics of voter turnout of territorial political systems on the voting day allows analyzing the evolution cyclicity of electoral-geographical space in countries with different political and administrative-territorial structure.