Research

Overview of Research Interests and Selected Pulbications

Research Interests

  • Fields of interest: Comparative political economy and political process in advanced democracies (including Japan and Europe)
  • Keywords: Partisan Politics, Globalization, Economic Policies, Welfare States, Public Policies, Fiscal Policy, Protest Movements, Defence Spending, Environmental Policy, Official Development Aid

Works in progress

  1. ‘Revisiting Partisan Politics of Environmental Policy: How Labour Market Outsiders Weaken Left-wing Governments’ Eco-Friendliness’ R&R at International Political Science Review.

  2. ‘Household Analogy Revisited: How do Japanese People Respond to Government Borrowing and Assets’ (with Susumu Annaka, Takaharu Saito, and Gento Kato)

  3. ‘Paying for Defence in High-Threat Environments: Political and Economic Divides over Defence Spending Expansions in Three Ex-Axis Countries’

  4. ‘Who Can Get Reelected after Fiscal Adjustment? Technocrat Finance Ministers, Partisan Theory, and the Electoral Cost of Budget Balancing’ (with Tatsuya Iseki and Susumu Annaka)

  5. ‘Producer Right versus Consumer Left: Exploring Partisan Varieties of Environmental Policies in Advanced Economies’ (with Serika Atsumi and Tatsuya Iseki)

  6. ‘Survey experiment on public assistance in Japan’ (with Susumu Annaka and Kohei Tabei)

  7. ‘ODA and Voter Behavior’ (with Takashi Nagatusuji)

  8. ‘Do Accommodative Strategy and Strategic Ambiguity Help Social Democratic Party? A Randomized Factorial Survey Experiment in Italy’ (with Tatuya Iseki and Antonio Benasaglio Berlucchi)

  9. ‘Japanese Attitudes toward Pandemic Triage’ (with Susumu Annaka, Takaharu Saito, and Gento Kato)

Publications