Political Institutions Workshop with John Carey
Event Date
Event Venue
March 27, 2015
A workshop was held at the Mita Campus on Saturday, March 21, 2015, with Professor John Carey (Dean of the Department of Political Science, Dartmouth College), who is renowned for his research on electoral systems and parliamentary politics. Professor Carey's invitation to Tokyo was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's (MEXT) "Top Global University Project." At the workshop, moderated by Associate Professor Yusaku Horiuchi of Dartmouth College, Professor Carey reported on his recent research, and young political science researchers active in Japan also gave research presentations. The names of the presenters and their titles are as follows:
John Carey* & Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth College)
Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality
Masaaki Higashijima* & Eric Chang (Michigan State University)
The Choice of Electoral Systems in Dictatorships
Marisa Kellam* (Waseda University) & Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo (University
of North Carolina)
Winning Coalitions in Presidential Systems: Pre-Electoral Alliances and Post-Electoral Governments in Latin America
Juan Pablo Micozzi (ITAM) & Hirokazu Kikuchi* (IDE-JETRO)
Partianship, Ambition, and Roll-Call Behavior in the Argentine House and Senate
Masashi Higuchi* & Takeshi Iida* (Doshisha University)
The Bargaining Power of a Non-leading Party in a Coalition Government: Why DidKomeito Accept the Exercise of the Right to Collective Self-Defense So Quickly?
(* indicates the presenter)