Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)  

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Public Library of Science  

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the national average gasoline price in the U.S. rose sharply. In response, President Biden wanted Congress to temporarily suspend the 18.4 cents per gallon federal gasoline tax. However, critics pointed out that gas tax suspension could: (1) undermine U.S. climate policy goals by encouraging the use of gasoline cars, (2) threaten U.S. national security by providing additional oil revenue to the Russian government for expanding its military capabilities, and (3) undermine the economy by defunding federal highway infrastructure. To systematically test how these critiques influenced public support for gas tax suspension, we administered an online survey experiment in May 2022 to a representative sample of U.S. respondents (N = 1,705). We found that in spite of high inflation during the months when the survey was conducted, in the aggregate, national security and the economy frames reduced public support for the gas tax suspension while the climate frame had no such effect. Yet, at the disaggregated level we find important partisan differences. When we interact treatment frames with respondents’ party identification, the national security and the economy frames reduced public support for the gas tax suspension among Republicans only, while the climate frame reduced public support among Democrats only.

DOI： 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000163

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DOI： 10.1371/journal.pone.0284208

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：PLOS  

DOI： 10.1371/journal.pone.0280720

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：SAGE Publications  

Citizen distrust towards the rival country is a defining feature of protracted international rivalries, undermining meaningful cooperation that can lead to mutual benefits. How might governments establish a public opinion base that is more supportive of cooperation with the rival country? We argue that information about ongoing environmental cooperation with the rival country makes citizens more supportive of non-environmental cooperation by changing their beliefs about the rival’s trustworthiness and facilitating extrinsic reciprocity. We investigate this potential micro-level cooperation spillover in the context of the longstanding rivalry between Japan and South Korea. Our survey-based experiment finds that information about cooperation on marine plastic pollution shapes the public’s willingness to cooperate in terms of the economy and security. Importantly, however, we find asymmetric results in Japan and Korea. While Koreans are more receptive to our positive cooperation treatment, which increases their willingness to cooperate in other domains, Japanese respondents react more strongly to the negative non-cooperation treatment, which reduces their willingness to cooperate in other domains. We offer explanations for these divergent reactions based on prior interactions between the two countries. Our findings have important policy implications for conflict-ridden areas of the world beyond East Asia that increasingly face common environmental challenges.

DOI： 10.1177/00223433221123369

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Cambridge University Press  

As international migration has grown worldwide, the issue of how to assure the political rights of citizens living abroad has attracted much scholarly attention. One concern has been that if vote-buying is widespread in home countries, this practice could be exported to external elections. Although there have been numerous studies focused on electoral participation in external voting, there has been no systematic test of whether vote-buying is occurring across borders. This study aims to address this question by focusing on the 2018 federal elections in Mexico. Our list experiment shows that in our sample, approximately 32 per cent of Mexican immigrants in the United States experienced vote-buying during the electoral campaign. Furthermore, a multivariate analysis shows that the people most susceptible to vote-buying were living in areas where there was a high concentration of Mexican immigrants. The study results point to the importance of cross-border networks, which have been built between countries sending and receiving immigrants, in facilitating vote-buying across borders.

DOI： 10.1017/s0008423922000567

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Springer  

DOI： 10.1007/s00146-022-01541-9

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：IOP Publishing  

We examine public support in Japan for overseas climate adaptation assistance via foreign aid and accepting immigrants. Using a survey-embedded conjoint experiment (N=2,815), we focus on seven attributes of an adaptation policy package: (1) the continent in which the country is located; (2) the types of extreme weather event this country faces; (3) the volume of climate aid; (4) the number of climate migrants (5) Japanese exports; (6) Japanese imports, (7) the country’s record of voting with Japan in the United Nations. We find that while respondents are indifferent to aid volume, their support diminishes as the number of migrants increases. Moreover, support is higher for Asian countries, that provide export markets, vote with Japan, and where the effects of climate change are gradual. Importantly, we find that public support is not influenced by benchmarking of Japan’s or peer G7 countries’ past aid or immigration levels.

DOI： 10.1088/1748-9326/ac3b7b

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Cambridge University Press (CUP)  

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Does political repression extinguish public support for opposition demands? Protest emerges as a consequence of grievances and political preferences expressed as demands. Although the literature on the repression–dissent nexus has primarily focused on whether repression effectively deters dissenting behavior, a limitation is that researchers do not often distinguish between behavior and preferences. One possible implication is that although the observable protest behavior can be reduced by repression, underlying opposition demands may remain intact or even be strengthened. Hence, the question of why repression should alter public preferences remains theoretically under-investigated, because there is limited micro-level evidence that captures changes in opposition preferences induced by a repressive episode. We fielded comparable conjoint experiments before and after the enactment of the Hong Kong National Security Law in June 2020. Support for the demands was largely stable despite the sweeping powers of the law to curb protests, although some moderation of demands was observed. We outline avenues for future research on mechanisms and implications entailed by the effects of repression on preferences.

DOI： 10.1017/S1468109921000256

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Springer  

DOI： 10.1007/s10584-021-03137-6

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)  

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Elsevier  

A key obstacle to nuclear energy as a decarbonization policy is the public perception of risks of radiation leaks from reactors. In particular, the “not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY)" syndrome suggests that individuals oppose nuclear reactors in their neighborhoods because they overestimate their risks. Arguably, such perceptions would be acute for those who have lived in the vicinity of a nuclear accident. We conducted a surveyembedded experiment in Japan (N = 2574) to assess how the NIMBY syndrome influences public support for restarting nuclear reactors when health, economic, and climate change benefits of nuclear energy are highlighted. We focus on Japan because the risks of nuclear energy became salient after the 2011 Fukushima accident. We test for two types of NIMBY effect, (1) respondents' proximity to any nuclear power plant and (2) respondents' place of residence in 2011 and its proximity to Fukushima. We do not find support for either the NIMBY syndrome or the Fukushima effect. On the contrary, we find support for a “reverse-NIMBY” among low-income residents, when they are treated with information on nuclear energy's low local air pollution (health). Our findings suggest that support for nuclear energy varies across population groups and depends on how its local benefits and costs are framed.

DOI： 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111944

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology  

This paper provides several guidelines to conduct an online survey experiment. Recently, the number of studies which use randomized survey experiment has been increased in social science. The survey experiment has the advantage of being able to conduct at a lower cost, however, some researchers have less information to conduct the survey experiment. Also, since the survey experiment is recognized as one of the new methods in Japan, the guideline or agreements are not shared in each field. This paper explain outlines of conducting the survey experiment and points to note based on the experience of the authors.

DOI： 10.11218/ojjams.35.109

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology  

In recent years, interest in experimental approaches has been growing in social science research. In the social sciences that target on society and actors in society, endogeneity always exists between cause and outcome, and methods such as covariate adjustment and natural (quasi-) experiments have been proposed as methods to deal with it. However, the experimental approach is still described as the best method of causal inference, and it has expanded rapidly by establishing an infrastructure that facilitates experimentation. This paper focuses on the theoretical aspects of various methods of survey experiments. Specifically, we explain the outline, implementation, estimation, and note for each of framing experiment, list experiment, and conjoint experiment.

DOI： 10.11218/ojjams.35.92

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In this paper we propose a new role-playing game to teach the effects of electoral systems on politicians’ preferences and behavior. Because the electoral system is of great importance as a cause of various political outcomes, we political scientists should make sure that students understand what it is and why it could have a consequential impact on politics. However, we often fail to effectively teach the importance of the electoral system because of weaknesses in the traditional, didactic teaching methods. To improve political science education, we have developed a game in which students can learn how electoral systems affect politicians’ behavior by playing the role of an electoral candidate. Our experiment shows that the game could be effective supporting material for lectures on the impact of electoral systems. Our game serves as an addition to the repertoire of active-learning in political science.

DOI： 10.15544/2018004

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Doctoral thesis  

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CiNii Books

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

CiNii Books

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)  

CiNii Books

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Language：Japanese  

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

CiNii Books

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CiNii Books

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

CiNii Books

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)   Publisher：Kobe University  

DOI： 10.24546/81009140

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Master’s thesis  

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Event date： 2021.9 - 2021.10

Language：English   Presentation type：Poster presentation  

Country：United States  

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Event date： 2021.9

Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Country：Japan  

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Event date： 2021.7

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Event date： 2021.6

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Event date： 2021.6

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Event date： 2021.4

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Event date： 2020.11

Language：English   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

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Event date： 2020.11

Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

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Event date： 2020.6

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Event date： 2020.5

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Event date： 2020.5

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Event date： 2020.1

Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：San Juan   Country：Puerto Rico  

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Event date： 2019.12

Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Meiji University   Country：Japan  

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Venue：Kobe, Hyogo   Country：Japan  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Poster presentation  

Venue：Nagoya City University   Country：Japan  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

Venue：Suita, Osaka   Country：Japan  

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Venue：Kochi, Kochi, JAPAN   Country：Japan  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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Venue：Waseda University  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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Venue：Nishinomiya, Hyogo, JAPAN   Country：Japan  

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Venue：Rose Hotel Yokohama  

Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) are very popular tools around the world especially in European countries and Japan is no exception. Many researchers have pointed out that VAAs may increase voters’ interest in elections, promote participation in elections and be successful at changing voters’ choice in some circumstances. However, there is little research on these expected effects of VAAs in East Asia. In addition, there is a methodological difficulty to accurately measure the effect of VAAs. In order to overcome methodological problem and examine the effect of VAAs outside Western democracy, we conducted a field experiment in the 2016 Upper House Election in Japan. In this experimental research, whether or not a respondent used a VAA was assigned randomly. As a result, we could not find a significant effect of a VAA to promote participation, to change voting choices, and to increase political interest. These findings require further research on conditions under which VAAs have influence.

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

Venue：Shinjuku, Tokyo, JAPAN   Country：Japan  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Poster presentation  

Venue：Takushoku University  

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Venue：Kagawa University  

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Venue：Kagawa University  

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Venue：Nihon University  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Portland, OR:USA  

We propose a new role-playing game to teach students about the effects of electoral
systems on politicians’ preference and behavior. Because the electoral system is of
great importance as a cause of political outcomes, we political scientists should make
sure that students understand what it is and why it could have consequential impacts
on policy outcomes. However, we often fail to effectively teach the political importance
of the electoral systems because of the limitation in the traditional, didactic teaching
method. To overcome the difficulty, we develop a game in which students can learn
how electoral systems affect politician’s behavior by playing a role of an electoral
candidate. Our experiment shows that the game could be a good supporting material
to the lectures about the effects of electoral systems. Our game is an addition to the
repertoire of active-learning in political science.

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