Tanzan ISHIBASHI wrote in his book "Taisho Jidai no Shinhyoka" (True Assessment of the Taisho Period) that it was "a new period of great noteworthiness in the history of development of democracy."
また、石橋湛山は自著『大正時代の真評価』において大正時代を「デモクラシーの発展史上特筆大書すべき新時期」と評価している。