新着情報 | Methodology of Social Sciences

October 30, 2024 Workshops: Workshop 35：Understanding Measurement in Social Science
October 15, 2024 Workshops: Workshop 34：Anarchy and Empire: World-Conquerors and International Systems
October 1, 2024 Articles/Chapters: Tomoko Matsumoto, Kenneth Mori McElwain, Kensuke Okada, Junko Kato "Generational differences in economic perceptions" Electoral Studies 91, 102830-102830 , October 2024
September 20, 2024 Other Events: 18th meeting (Historical and Contemporary Ideas)
August 31, 2024 Articles/Chapters: Tomohiro Hosoi "METI and Japanese scramble: re-definition of Japan's African policy under the second Abe administration and future of African summit diplomacy" The Pacific Review 1-21, August 2024
July 16, 2024 Workshops: Workshop 32 : The Disvalue of Premature Death and Its Temporal Location : Philosophical Foundations of Population Health Measure
July 11, 2024 Articles/Chapters: Masaaki Higashijima (with Hisashi Kadoya and Yuki Yanai) "The Dynamics of Electoral Manipulation and Institutional Trust in Democracies: Election Timing, Blatant Fraud, and the Legitimacy of Governance." 2024. Public Opinion Quarterly, nfae022.
July 11, 2024 Workshops: Workshop 33 : On Human Symbols: Does Anthropomorphizing Groups Increase In-Group Attachment?
July 3, 2024 Workshops: Workshop 31：Dominance Through Division: Group-Based Clientelism in Japan
June 25, 2024 Other Events: 9th meeting (Social Science of Measurement) Speaker : Tomohiro HOSOI [University of Tokyo]
June 25, 2024 Other Events: 17th meeting (Historical and Contemporary Ideas) Speaker : Iwao Hirose [McGill University]
June 12, 2024 Other Events: 19th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence)
May 30, 2024 Workshops: Workshop 30：Unexpected Handcuffs: How Open Bargains in Opposition Pre-Electoral Alliances Promote Political Instability and Authoritarian Comebacks
May 29, 2024 Workshops: Workshop 29：Gender and Politics and Representation Paradox: Representing Women and Facing Electoral Disadvantage?
May 14, 2024 Articles/Chapters: Masaaki Higashijima "Autocratization and Development," Aurel Croissant and Luca Tomini eds. 2024. Routledge Handbook of Autocratization. Chapter 25, pp.349-361, Routledge.
May 3, 2024 Articles/Chapters: Ryuichi Tanaka (with Atsushi Inoue) "The Rank of Socioeconomic Status within Class and the Incidence of School Bullying and School Absence" Economics of Education Review (forthcoming).
May 3, 2024 Articles/Chapters: Higashijima, Masaaki and Yujin Woo. 2024. "Political Regimes and Refugee Entries: Motivations behind Refugees and Host Governments." International Studies Quarterly. 68-2, sqae077.
April 23, 2024 Other Events: 16th meeting (Historical and Contemporary Ideas)
April 18, 2024 Articles/Chapters: Ryuichi Tanaka (with Hideo Akabayashi) "The Rate of Return to Early Childhood Education in Japan: Estimates from the Nationwide Expansion" Education Economics
March 19, 2024 Workshops: Workshop 22：The Good the Bad and the Ugly: The Psychology of the Internet
March 18, 2024 Workshops: Workshop 28：Philosophy and Social Sciences
March 4, 2024 Workshops: Workshop 27：Lives, Livelihoods, and Learning: A Global Perspective on the Wellbeing Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic
March 4, 2024 Other Events: 18th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence)
March 1, 2024 Monographs: 『政治哲学者は何を考えているのか？』
March 1, 2024 Monographs: 『パンデミックと社会科学』
February 6, 2024 Workshops: Workshop 26：Applied Ethics Workshop
January 30, 2024 Other Events: 17th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence)
January 23, 2024 Articles/Chapters: Hiroyuki Hoshiro, Bringing the National Interest to the Forefront of Foreign Aid Policy : The Case of Japan
January 15, 2024 Workshops: Workshop 25：Middle-Class Support for Encompassing Welfare: Self-Reinforcing Policy-Feedback
December 19, 2023 Workshops: Workshop 24：On Gunnar Myrdal's methodology of "explicit value premises"
December 18, 2023 Workshops: Workshop 23：When are 2 Observations Sufficient?: Revisiting the Method of Difference for Individual Treatment Effects
November 25, 2023 MISC: Ken Oshitani, Comment on Alasia Nuti, "Severe Injustice, Disruptive Protest, and the Right to Justification"
November 11, 2023 Other Events: 8th meeting（Social Science of Measurement）
November 8, 2023 Articles/Chapters: Hiroyuki Hoshiro, "Reconsidering Japan's War Reparations and Economic Re-Entry into Southeast Asia," Diplomacy & Statecraft, 34(4), 673-702.
November 7, 2023 Workshops: Workshop 22：How can the digital world help to solve intergroup conflict?
October 26, 2023 Articles/Chapters: Masaaki Higashijima, Hidekuni Washida, Varieties of Clientelism across Political Parties: New Measures of Patron-Client Relationships, European Political Science Review forthcoming 2023
October 17, 2023 Workshops: Workshop 21：First author meeting for final publication
September 26, 2023 Other Events: 11th meeting (Historical and Contemporary Ideas) Speaker : Ken OSHITANI [University of Tokyo]
September 22, 2023 Articles/Chapters: Kenneth McElwain, Keisuke Kawata, Masaki Nakabayashi, Narrative premiums in policy persuasion, Political Psychology, September 22, 2023
September 18, 2023 MISC: Ken Oshitani, Scanlon's Instrumental Theory of Rights Reconsidered. The 2nd IVR Japan International Conference, September 18, 2023
September 12, 2023 Discussion Papers: E-23-006 Suzumura consistency and minimal quasi-transitive extensions (Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga)
September 12, 2023 Discussion Papers: E-23-005 Ex-post approaches to prioritarianism and sufficientarianism (Matthew D. Adler, Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga)
August 30, 2023 Articles/Chapters: Masaaki Higashijima, Yujin Woo, Measuring National Refugee Policies: Recent Trends and Implications for Future Development, Interdisciplinary Information Sciences 29(2) 109-117 2023
August 21, 2023 Other Events: 16th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence)
August 17, 2023 Discussion Papers: E-23-004 Repugnance at the Limit (Susumu Cato, Ko Harada, Ken Oshitani)
August 3, 2023 Discussion Papers: E-23-003 Why Not Prospect Utilitarianism Instead of Sufficientarianism? A Formal Comparison in Terms of Continuity and Lifeboat Cases (Susumu Cato, Hun Chung)
July 18, 2023 Discussion Papers: E-23-002 Fair social quasi-orderings (Susumu Cato, Marc Fleurbaey)
July 14, 2023 Workshops: Workshop 20：Machine-learning human rights: an empirical study of constitutions around the world in 1900-2020
July 6, 2023 Workshops: International Symposium : Normative Measurements and Social Science
June 13, 2023 Articles/Chapters: Legitimation of earnings inequality between regular and non-regular workers: A comparison of Japan, South Korea, and the United States
June 1, 2023 Other Events: 7th meeting（Social Science of Measurement）
May 30, 2023 Other Events: 10th meeting (COVID-19 and Social Science)
May 25, 2023 Discussion Papers: E-23-001 A simple impossibility theorem in population ethics (Susumu Cato, Ko Harada)
May 16, 2023 Workshops: Workshop 18：Toward the Publication of the Project
May 13, 2023 MISC: Ryuichi Tanaka and Atsushi Inoue, "How Does STEM Collage Major of Teachers Affect the Academic Achievement of Their Students?" RIETI Column, May 13 (2022).
April 25, 2023 Other Events: 15th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence)
April 4, 2023 Workshops: Workshop 17：Paths to power : A new dataset on the social profile of governments
March 28, 2023 Workshops: Workshop 16：Are there any methods in jurisprudence?
March 9, 2023 Articles/Chapters: Kenneth MCELWAIN "Public Preference for International Law Compliance: Respecting Legal Obligations or Conforming to Common Practices?" Review of International Organizations (with Saki Kuzushima and Yuki Shiraito)
February 22, 2023 Other Events: 13th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence)
February 20, 2023 Other Events: 10th meeting (Historical and Contemporary Ideas) Speakers : Sonoe OMODA [Meiji University], Ken OSHITANI [Waseda University]
February 17, 2023 Discussion Papers: E-22-006 Sustained social mobility and the Kemeny rule (Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga)
February 7, 2023 Other Events: 4th meeting (Philosophy of Social Science) Speaker： Tsuyoshi KURATA (Kyushu University)
January 26, 2023 Other Events: 9th meeting (Historical and Contemporary Ideas)
January 25, 2023 Other Events: 12th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Wataru TANAKA [UTokyo]
January 16, 2023 Articles/Chapters: Tanaka, Wataru, and Masaki Iwasaki, Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in How Institutional Investors Perceive Corporate and Securities Regulations, European Business Organization Law Review (Online) 24(3) 507-554
December 27, 2022 Other Events: 9th meeting (COVID-19 and Social Science)
December 20, 2022 Workshops: Workshop 15：How Do Political Conflicts Shape Economic Relations? Introducing Big Data-Based and Survey-Based Approaches
December 16, 2022 Other Events: 8th meeting (Historical and Contemporary Ideas) Speakers：Susumu MORIMURA [Hitotsubashi University], Iwao HIROSE [McGill University]
December 16, 2022 Discussion Papers: E-22-005 Independent, neutral, and monotonic collective choice: The role of Suzumura consistency (Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga)
December 16, 2022 Other Events: 11th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Ken YAHAGI [Seikei University]
December 13, 2022 Other Events: 8th meeting (COVID-19 and Social Science)
November 24, 2022 Other Events: 7th meeting (Historical and Contemporary Ideas) Speakers：Saki SEKIGUCHI [Waseda University], Aerim RYU [UTokyo]
November 19, 2022 MISC: Kenneth MCELWAIN "The Effects of COVID-19 on Constitutionalism and Voting Behavior" 2022 Annual Meeting of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan
November 15, 2022 Other Events: The Politics of the Kishida Cabinet in the Post-Abe Era
November 14, 2022 MISC: Kenneth MCELWAIN "Has Politics Gone Post-COVID?" Symposium: The Politics of the Kishida Cabinet in the Post-Abe Era (University British Columbia-University of Toronto-University of Tokyo)
November 12, 2022 Other Events: Global Studies Seminar, UTokyo IAGS
November 8, 2022 Other Events: 6th meeting（Social Science of Measurement）
November 1, 2022 Workshops: Workshop 14：Constructing Economic Theory Through Historical Thick Description
October 26, 2022 Other Events: 10th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Takashi IIDA [University of Tokyo]
October 25, 2022 Other Events: 6th meeting (Historical and Contemporary Ideas) Speakers：In-Sung JANG [Seoul National University]
October 18, 2022 Workshops: Workshop 13：What is Liberalism?
October 11, 2022 Articles/Chapters: "Do Class Size Reductions Protect Students from Infectious Disease? Lessons for Covid-19 Policy from Flu Epidemic in Tokyo Metropolitan Area" (with Masato Oikawa, Shun-ichiro Bessho, and Haruko Noguchi), American Journal of Health Economics, vol. 8(4), pa
September 22, 2022 Other Events: 5th meeting（Social Science of Measurement）
September 20, 2022 MISC: "La sfida demografica del Giappone e il suo impatto sull'economia: Lezioni per l'Italia (Japan's Demographic Challenge and its Impact on the Economy: Lessons from and for Italy, in Italian)", Sebastiano Maffettone and Marco Valerio Lo Prete (ed.), Italia
August 29, 2022 Other Events: 9th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Hiroyasu ISHIKAWA [University of Tokyo]
August 16, 2022 Articles/Chapters: Ryuichi Tanaka (with Atsushi Inoue) "Do Teachers' College Majors Affect Students' Academic Achievement in the Sciences? A Cross Subfields Analysis with Student-Teacher Fixed Effects" Education Economics.
August 1, 2022 Articles/Chapters: Shoji, M., Cato, S., Iida, T., Ishida, K., Ito, A., Katsumata, H., and McElwain, K. M. (2022) "Mobile Health Technology as a Solution to Self-Control Problems: The Behavioral Impact of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in Japan," Social Science and Medicine,
July 28, 2022 Other Events: 4th meeting（Social Science of Measurement）
July 26, 2022 Other Events: 7th meeting (COVID-19 and Social Science) Speaker：Zeyu LYU [University of Tokyo]
July 21, 2022 Other Events: 8th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Tomonobu HAYASHI [University of Tokyo]
July 19, 2022 Workshops: Workshop 12：Attitudes Towards Academia and University Education Since the COVID-19 Pandemic
July 11, 2022 MISC: Ryuichi Tanaka, "Book Review: Nihon no safety net no kakusa - roudou sijyo no henyo to syakai hosho (Inequality in safety net of Japan - The transformation of labor market and social security)" Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 25, Issue 2, Summer,
July 6, 2022 Articles/Chapters: Hiroyuki Hoshiro, Time pressures under international crises reconsidered: Integrating real and experimental time Asian Journal of Comparative Politics
June 30, 2022 Other Events: 4th meeting (Historical and Contemporary Ideas) Speakers：Tetsuki TAMURA [Nagoya University], Shinichi TABATA [Hokkaido University of Education]
June 23, 2022 Other Events: 2nd meeting (Philosophy of Social Science) Speaker：Yuichiro TAGUCHI
June 14, 2022 Articles/Chapters: Shoji, M., Ito, A., Cato, S., Iida, T., Ishida, K., and McElwain, K. M. (2022) "Variations in Early-Stage Responses to Pandemics: Survey Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan," Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 6, 235-258
June 14, 2022 Articles/Chapters: Cato, S., Iida, T., Ishida, K., Ito, A., Katsumata, H., McElwain, K. M., and Shoji, M. (2022) "Vaccination and altruism under the COVID-19 pandemic," Public Health in Practice, 3, 100225.
June 14, 2022 Other Events: 3rd meeting（Social Science of Measurement）Speaker：Aerim RYU [University of Tokyo]
June 11, 2022 Other Events: The University of Tokyo IAGS Global Studies Symposium
June 10, 2022 Discussion Papers: E-22-004 Multi-species population ethics with critical levels (Susumu Cato, Shu Ishida)
May 30, 2022 Other Events: 6th meeting (COVID-19 and Social Science)
May 30, 2022 Other Events: 7th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Takeshi FUJITANI [University of Tokyo]
May 20, 2022 Other Events: 2nd meeting (Social Science of Measurement)
May 19, 2022 Discussion Papers: E-22-003 Infection control, personal estimations, and the ethics of testing during COVID-19 pandemic (Susumu Cato, Shu Ishida)
May 17, 2022 Workshops: Workshop 11：What should qualitative researchers consider after the KKV controversy?
May 13, 2022 Discussion Papers: E-22-002 Strategic crackdown on organized crime by local governments (Susumu Cato, Ken Yahagi)
May 13, 2022 MISC: Atsushi Inoue and Ryuichi Tanaka, "How Does STEM Collage Major of Teachers Affect the Academic Achievement of Their Students?" RIETI Column, May 13 (2022).
May 9, 2022 Discussion Papers: E-22-001 Are good leaders truly good?（Susumu Cato, Akira Inoue）
April 25, 2022 Other Events: 5th meeting (COVID-19 and Social Science)
March 25, 2022 Articles/Chapters: Aida, T., and Shoji, M. (2022) "Cross-Country Evidence on the Role of National Governance in Boosting COVID-19 Vaccination," BMC Public Health, 22, 576.
March 25, 2022 Other Events: 6th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Yasuhito NISHIUCHI [Kyoto University]
March 4, 2022 Other Events: 5th meeting (Philosophy of Social Science) Speaker：Yuya SHIMIZU [Kyoto University]
March 2, 2022 Other Events: 2nd meeting (Historical and Contemporary Ideas)
March 1, 2022 Articles/Chapters: Nuria Rodriguez-Planas and Ryuichi Tanaka, "Gender Norms and Women's Decision to Work: Evidence from Japan", Review of Economics of the Household, vol. 20(1), pages 15-36, March (2022).
February 27, 2022 Articles/Chapters: Cato, S., & Inoue, A. (2022). Libertarian approaches to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Bioethics.
February 26, 2022 Articles/Chapters: Cato, S. Stable preference aggregation with infinite population. Social Choice and Welfare (2022)
February 24, 2022 Articles/Chapters: The impact of COVID-19 on the psychological distress of youths in Japan: A latent growth curve analysis　Sho Fujihara and Takahiro Tabuchi, Journal of Affective Disorders
February 15, 2022 Discussion Papers: E-21-008 Law Enforcement with Compensation Statutes for Legal Error (Ken Yahagi)
February 15, 2022 Workshops: Workshop 10：Recent Topics on the Economic Analysis of Public Law Enforcement
February 3, 2022 Articles/Chapters: Ken Yahagi, Regulation on Coexisting Legal and Illegal Markets with Quality Differentiation, European Journal of Law and Economics
January 26, 2022 Other Events: 1st meeting (Historical and Contemporary Ideas) Speaker：Roberto FUMAGALLI [King's College London]
January 18, 2022 Workshops: Workshop 9：Measuring Democracy: Cross-National Indices and Their Validity
January 17, 2022 Other Events: 1st meeting (Social Science of Measurement)
January 12, 2022 Other Events: 5th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Tatsuhiko INATANI [Kyoto University]
January 6, 2022 Articles/Chapters: Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, Kenneth Mori McElwain, Masahiro Shoji. 2022. "Vaccination and altruism under the COVID-19 pandemic". Public Health in Practice, Volume 3 (June)
December 21, 2021 Workshops: Workshop 8：History of Political Thought and Political Philosophy: Current Status
December 15, 2021 Other Events: 4th meeting (Philosophy of Social Science) Speaker：Jun OTSUKA [Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University]
December 7, 2021 Other Events: 4th meeting (COVID-19 and Social Science)
December 2, 2021 Other Events: 4th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：George SHISHIDO [University of Tokyo]
November 29, 2021 Articles/Chapters: Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Kenneth Mori McElwain, Masahiro Shoji. 2021. "Variations in Early-Stage Responses to Pandemics: Survey Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan". Economics of Disasters and Climate Change.
November 21, 2021 Articles/Chapters: Cato, S., Iida, T., Ishida, K,, Ito, A., Katsumata, H., McElwain, K. M, Shoji, M. (2021). "Social media infodemics and social distancing under the COVID-19 pandemic: public good provisions under uncertainty". Global health action, 14(1)
November 18, 2021 Workshops: Workshop 7：Use of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice System: Experimental Evaluation
November 16, 2021 Workshops: Workshop 6：Some social scientific issues about "measurement"
November 2, 2021 Other Events: 3rd meeting (COVID-19 and Social Science)
October 19, 2021 Workshops: Workshop 5：Field experiments in political communication research
October 18, 2021 Other Events: 3rd meeting (Philosophy of Social Science)
September 30, 2021 Other Events: 2nd meeting (COVID-19 and Social Science)
September 27, 2021 Discussion Papers: E-21-007 Revisiting variable-value population principles (Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga)
September 7, 2021 Other Events: 3rd meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Akira TOKUTSU [Tohoku University]
August 13, 2021 Discussion Papers: E-21-006 Do class size reductions protect students from infectious diseases? Lessons for COVID-19 policy from a flu epidemic in Tokyo Metropolitan Area(Masato Oikawa, Ryuichi Tanaka, Shun-ichiro Bessho, Haruko Noguchi)
August 4, 2021 Other Events: 1st meeting (COVID-19 and Social Science)
August 4, 2021 Other Events: 2nd meeting (Philosophy of Social Science)
July 31, 2021 Discussion Papers: E-21-005 Time pressures during international crises reconsidered:Integrating real and experimental time（Hiroyuki Hoshiro）
July 20, 2021 Workshops: Workshop 4：Methods of Jurisprudence: In Quest for Standards of Values
July 1, 2021 Other Events: 2nd meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Akira KAMO [University of Tokyo]
June 15, 2021 Workshops: Workshop 3：Covid-19 and Output in Japan
June 8, 2021 Discussion Papers: E-21-004 COVID-19 and Social Distancing in the Absence of Legal Enforcement: Survey Evidence from Japan (Masahiro Shoji, Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Kenneth Mori McElwain)
June 8, 2021 Discussion Papers: E-21-003 Sexual Exploitation of Trafficked Children: Survey Evidence from Child Sex Workers in Bangladesh (Masahiro Shoji, Kenmei Tsubota)
June 8, 2021 Discussion Papers: E-21-002 Thresholds, Critical Levels, and Generalized Sufficientarian Principles (Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga)
June 8, 2021 Discussion Papers: E-21-001 Generalized Poverty-Gap Orderings (Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga)
May 18, 2021 Other Events: 1st meeting (Philosophy of Social Science)
May 18, 2021 Workshops: Workshop 2：Scientific Realism and Quasi-intervention in Social Sciences; the case of "audience costs" in international crises
April 27, 2021 Other Events: 1st meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Wataru TANAKA [University of Tokyo]
April 20, 2021 Workshops: Kick-off event（Workshop1）：Imagining the Future of Social Science
January 19, 2021 Workshops: Preliminary event "COVID-19 and social science"