Asian Electoral Studies (AES) Conference

October 27, 2018

On October 27, 2018, the Asian Electoral Studies (AES) Conference was held at Mita Campus, organized by the Keio University Social Science Data Archive Center (SU), the Korean Association for Electoral Studies, and the Election Study Center at National Chengchi University, Taiwan (co-sponsored by a MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research; Principal Investigator: Yoshiaki Kobayashi). The program for the day was as follows.

2018 AES Conference

Session 1: Chair: Chi Huang (Research Fellow, National Chengchi University)

1. Title: Exploring Citizen's Anti-partyism in Taiwan

Paper givers: Ching-hsin Yu (Research Fellow, National Chengchi University) and Tsung-han Tsai (Associate Professor, National Chengchi University)

Discussant: Takeshi Iida (Associate Professor, Doshisha University)

2. Title: Presidential Electoral System and Making Coalition Government

Paper giver: Yong Heun An (Professor, Catholic University of Dague)

Discussant: Jeihee Kyung (Lecturer, Keio University)

3. Title: Military Threat, Terrorism, and Government Popularity in Japan

Paper giver: Hirofumi Miwa (Associate Professor, Dept.of Political Science, Gakushuin University)

Discussant: Naoko Taniguchi (Associate Professor, Keio University)

Session 2: Chair: Yoshiaki Kobayashi (Professor, Keio University)

4. Title: Personality and Party Identification in Taiwan

Paper givers: Lu-huei Chen (Research Fellow, National Chengchi University), Chung-han Liao (Doctoral Student, National Chengchi University), Chia-hung Tsai

(Research Fellow, National Chengchi University)

Discussant: Youngho Cho (Professor, Sogang University)

5. Title: The Winning possibility of Female Candidate in Korea

Paper giver: Minjeoung Kim (Professor, City University of Seoul)

Discussant: Takeshi Iida (Associate Professor, Doshisha University)

6. Title: Changing Legislature, Changing Politics : Quotas, Electoral Systems, and Political Representation

Paper givers: Yuta Kamahara (Associate Professor, Yokohama National University), Yoshiaki Kobayashi (Professor, Keio University)

Discussant: Tsai, Tsung-han (Associate Professor, National Chengchi University)

Session 3: Chair: Wook Kim (Professor, Pai Chai University)

Title: Analyzing National Factors in Taiwan's Local Elections

7. Paper givers: Eric Chen-hua Yu (Associate Research Fellow, National Chengchi University), Su-feng Cheng (Research Fellow, National Chengchi University), and

Nathan Batto (Associate Research Fellow, Academia Sinica and National Chengchi University)

Discussant: Yuta Kamahara (Associate Professor, Yokohama National University)

8. Title: Why Has the Regionalist Party System Persisted in South Korea?

: Korean Regionalism in a Comparative Perspective

Paper giver: Youngho Cho (Professor, Sogang University)

Discussant: Masataka Harada (Associate Professor, Fukuoka University)

9. Title: Measuring Destruction from Above: Long-Term Effects of the WWII Air Raid Damages on Contemporary Sociopolitical Activities in Japan

Paper giver: Masataka Harada (Associate Professor, Fukuoka University)

Discussant: Yu, Ching-hsin (Research Fellow, National Chengchi University)