The search strategy for the review included articles or books available to support this study, especially those which would report empirical or conceptual investigation(s) of the causes and effects of the media and violence, as well as the psychological aspects of media use and other contributing factors of the question. ... Psychological theory suggests that immersion in the mean, dangerous, and violent world of prime-time entertainment television cultivates perceptions of the real world as mean and dangerous and so translates into heightened fear among viewers (Sotirovic, 2001). ... This pr...

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This 'political landmark'13 appeared to be a victory for democracy, extending the electorate from just under three million to over twelve million, instantly enfranchising the majority of the male population over the age of twenty-five and granting them for the first time a degree of influence over the governance of their own lives14. ... As Storry writes, 'Japanese politics appeared to be moving, quite firmly this time, into an era of party governments and of real, if still modified, liberalism.16' However promising these appearances of liberal consciousness, however...

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