NEWJP@Dartmouth: Program
Dartmouth College, August 26-27, 2019
Monday, August 26, 2019
8:00 am – 9:00 am, Breakfast (Haldeman Center 031)
9:00 am – 10:20 am, Panel 1: Political Economy (Haldeman Center 041)
- Chair/discussant: Frances Rosenbluth (Yale University, frances.rosenbluth@yale.edu)
- “After a Storm Come Votes?: The Electoral Consequences of Disaster Relief”
- Kentaro Fukumoto (Gakushuin University, kentaro.fukumoto@gakushuin.ac.jp)
- “Can Programmatic Policies Enhance Clientelism? Evidence from Snow Removal Subsidies in Japan”
- Amy Catalinac (New York University, acatalinac@gmail.com) and Taishi Muraoka (Washington University in St. Louis, tmuraoka@wustl.edu)
- “Voting with the Wallet: Consumers, Income-Earners and the New Politics of Globalization Backlash”
- Megumi Naoi (University of California San Diego, mnaoi@ucsd.edu)
10:30 am – 11:50 am, Panel 2: Demography and Politics (Haldeman Center 041)
- Chair/discussant: Daniel Smith (Harvard University, danielmsmith@fas.harvard.edu)
- “Does It Matter That Politicians Are Older Than Their Constituents? Yes.”
- Charles McClean (University of California San Diego, cmcclean@ucsd.edu)
- “Framing Effects and Reciprocal Intergroup Support in an Aging Society: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Japan”
- Yesola Kweon (Utah State University, yesola.kweon@usu.edu)
- “Does Aging of the Japanese Society Discourage Politicians from Supporting Monetary Easing by the Bank of Japan?”
- Kyohei Yamada (Rikkyo University, kyohei21@gmail.com)
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Lunch + Break
1:30 pm – 2:50 pm, Panel 3: Computational Text Analysis (Haldeman Center 041)
- Chair/discussant: Charles Crabtree (Dartmouth College, Charles.D.Crabtree@dartmouth.edu)
- “Political Statement Cycle”
- Tomoko Matsumoto (Tokyo University of Science, tomoko.matsumoto@rs.tus.ac.jp) and Jun Goto (Kobe University, jgoto_supasute@yahoo.co.jp)
- “Collusion to Conflict: A Quantitative Analysis of Japanese Labor Politics”
- Nathan Cisneros (University of California Irvine, cisneros@uci.edu)
- “Populist Attitudes and Party Preferences in Japan”
- Robert Fahey (Waseda University, robfahey@aoni.waseda.jp)
3:00 pm – 4:20 pm, Panel 4: Public Opinion about International Relations (Haldeman Center 041)
- Chair/discussant: Megumi Naoi (UCSD, mnaoi@ucsd.edu)
- “The Domestic Impact of Political Apologies: Evidence from the US and Japan”
- Jonathan Chu (University of Pennsylvania, jonachu@upenn.edu) and Risa Kitagawa (Northeastern University, r.amano@northeastern.edu)
- “The Role of Humanitarianism in Shaping Public Attitudes toward Refugees: Japan as a Crucial Test Case”
- Nicholas A. R. Fraser (University of Toronto, nicholasar.fraser@mail.utoronto.ca) and Go Murakami (Ritsumeikan University, gmurakam@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp)
- “Assessing Nuclear Attitudes with Highly Factorial Survey Experiments: Comparative evidence from the United States and Japan”
- Jonathon Baron (Yale University, jonathon.baron@yale.edu)
4:30 pm – 5:50 pm, Poster Session (Haldeman Center 031/041)
- “Intraparty Competition and Money Politics in Japan”
- Matt Carlson (University of Vermont, matthew.carlson@uvm.edu)
- “Nationalism and Trade Preferences”
- Yeonju Lee (Harvard University, yeonjulee@post.harvard.edu)
- “Fright or Fait Accompli: Credit Guarantees and Zombie Firms among SME in Japan”
- Scott Wilbur (Yale University, scott.wilbur@yale.edu)
- “Geographic Divide in Protectionism: The Social-Context Approach”
- Ikuma Ogura (Georgetown University, io85@georgetown.edu) and Hirofumi Kawaguchi (University of Tokyo, kawaguchi@j.u-tokyo.ac.jp).
- “Whom Does the Farm Lobby Represent?: The Origins of Agricultural Preferences for Protectionism in Japan”
- Hikaru Yamagishi (Yale University, hikaru.yamagishi@yale.edu)
- “Japan’s Legal Frameworks on Biotechnology”
- Nicole Freiner (Bryant University, nfreiner@bryant.edu)
- “Learning from History: The Chinese Perception of Japan’s Security Strategies”
- Yi Wang (The University of Manchester, wywest@hotmail.com)
- “Mobilizing Against the Military: An Analysis of Anti-US-Base Movements in Japan”
- Charmaine Willis (University at Albany, State University of New York, cwillis@albany.edu)
- “Politician Incivility and Apologies in the U.S. and Japan”
- Jennifer Wu (Dartmouth College/Stanford University, jenniferw840@gmail.com)
- “The Anti-Democratic Peace: How Political Parties Shape Nationalist Conflicts”
- Trevor Incerti (Yale University, trevor.incerti@yale.edu)
- “The Connected Stakeholder Model: Explaining How Advocates Influence Policy”
- Mary Alice Haddad (Wesleyan University, mahaddad@wesleyan.edu)
- “Together We Stand United We Aren’t”
- Zsuzsanna Blanka Magyar (University of Barcelona, zmagyar@ucla.edu)
- “The Tragedy of Rising Power Polities: Imperial Japan’s Ascent and Its Alliances”
- Mina Pollman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, minapoll@mit.edu)
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Dinner (Faculty Lounge in Hopkins Center)
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
8:00 am – 9:00 am, Breakfast (Haldeman Center 031)
9:00 am – 10:20 am, Panel 5: Foreign Policy (Haldeman Center 041)
- Chair/discussant: Christina Davis (Harvard University, cldavis@harvard.edu)
- “Why Arbitrate?: The Role of the State in Investor-State Arbitration”
- Haillie Na-Kyung Lee (Queens College, City University of New York, nal@princeton.edu)
- “Political Strategy in the (Non)Use of Preferential Trade Agreements”
- Kristin Vekasi (University of Maine, kristin.vekasi@maine.edu)
- “Explaining Variations in Responsiveness to External Pressure: Japan’s Aid Policy and Bureaucratic Politics”
- Yukari Iwanami (Osaka City University, iwanami@econ.osaka-cu.jp)
10:30 am – 11:50 am, Panel 6: Political Behavior (Haldeman Center 041)
- Chair/discussant: Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth College, yusaku.horiuchi@dartmouth.edu)
- “Legislative Networks and Ministerial Turnover: Analyzing the Impact of Social Ties on Ministerial Dismissal”
- Taishi Muraoka (Washington University in St. Louis, tmuraoka@wustl.edu) and Yoshikuni Ono (Tohoku University, onoy@tohoku.ac.jp)
- “Candidates’ Physical Appearances and Electoral Success: Evidence from Japan’s Upper House Elections”
- Yoshikuni Ono (Tohoku University, onoy@tohoku.ac.jp)
- “Getting to Know Her: Information and Gender Bias in Preferential Voting Systems”
- Daniel Smith (Harvard University, danielmsmith@fas.harvard.edu)