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Curriculum Vitae MASAHIRO ZENKYO Associate Professor Curriculum Vitae MASAHIRO ZENKYO Associate Professor School of Law and Politics, Kwansei Gakuin University 1-1-155, Uegahara, Nishinomiya-shi, Phone: (+81)798-54-6308 Hyogo, 662-8501 E-mail: [email protected] Education Mar. 2011 Ph. D. in Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University Mar. 2008 M. A. in Policy Science, Doshisha University Mar. 2006 B. A. in Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University Employment Primary Affiliations Sep. 2017 – present Visiting Research Fellows, The Jack W. Peltason center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine Apr. 2016 – present Associate Professor, School of Law and Politics, Kwansei Gakuin University Apr. 2014 – Mar. 2016 Assistant Professor, School of Law and Politics, Kwansei Gakuin University Apr. 2013 – Mar. 2014 Assistant Professor, Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University Apr. 2012 – Mar. 2013 Researcher, Research and Investigation Center, Hyogo Earthquake Memorial 21st century Research Institute Part-time Sep. 2015 – present. Part-time Lecturer, Kansai University, Japan Apr. 2014 – Mar. 2015 Part-time Lecturer, Kyoto Women's University, Japan Oct. 2011 – present Part-time Lecturer, Kobe University, Japan Sep. 2011 – Mar. 2013 Part-time Lecturer, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Sep. 2011 – Mar. 2012 Part-time Lecturer, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan Research Interests Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Japanese Local Politics, Party Politics, Survey Methodology. 1 Publications (in Japanese) Books Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2018(forthcoming). An Empirical Analysis of Support for Ishin-no-Kai: Is it Populism, or Rational Choice as Citizen? Yuhikaku. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2018. “What does the declining trust in electoral management result in?” Ohnishi Yutka ed. Electoral Governance in Japan. Minerva -shobo. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2017. “Chapter 8: Political Value and culture.” Sakamoto Haruya ed. Civil Society Studies. Horitsu-bunka-sha. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2017. “Did Agreement for Mutual Cooperations at the Time of Disaster Work?” Ohnishi Yutaka ed. The Cooperation among Local Governments against Natural Disaster. Minerva -shobo. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2016. “A Faded Memory of Disasters in Japan: A comparative analysis of Hanshin and East Japan Earthquake memories through the content analysis using newspapers.” Mikuriya Takashi ed. Comparative Policy Analysis of the Reconstruction Process of Big Earthquake in Japan. Keiso-Shobo, pp. 201-222. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2013. Political Trust and Distrust in Japan. Bokutakusya. Peer Reviewed Journal Articles Zenkyo, Masahiro and Haruya Sakamoto. 2017. “What Promotes charitable Giving to Disaster Relief Organizations in Japan? Evidence from a Randomized Factorial Survey Experiment.” Journal of Public Policy Studies, Vol. 17. Zenkyo, Masahiro and Masaki Hata. 2017. “Why Do Respondents Answer “Don’t Know” in Political Surveys? Examining the Causal Effects of Giving Policy and Political Party Information on “Don’t Know” Answers through a Survey Experiment.” The Annuals of Japanese Political Science Association, Vol. 68. Zenkyo, Masahiro and Hideki Kido. 2012. “The Attitude of Local Officials in the Era of Decentralization: Empirical Analysis of the Work Motivation.” Journal of Public Policy Studies, Vol. 12, pp. 141-154. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2012. “The Acceptance of Political Decision and Political Trust: Secondary Analysis of JABISS and JSS-GLOPE.” Japanese Journal of Electoral Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 135-149. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2011. “The Logic of Non-Respondents: An Analysis of the Effect of Generalized Trust on “Degree of cooperation” Based on JGSS.” JGSS Research Series, No.8, pp. 259-271. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2010. “The Paradox of Political Trust: conditioning Effect of Trust and System Feedback.” Policy Science, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 57-73. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2010. “Trust in Government and Voter Turnout: continuing and Reflected Effect in Trust.” The Annuals of Japanese Political Science Association, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 127-148. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2009. “The change in Public Trust in Japan from 1982 to 2008: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the Causal Relation between Politics and Public Trust.” Policy Science, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 61- 76. 2 Invited Journal Articles Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2016. “Does Party Support Explain Voting Behavior? Examining the conditional effects of partisanship through survey experiments.” The Annuals of Japanese Political Science Association, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp.163-184. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2016. “Why was the Osaka Metropolis Plan rejected by Osaka city’s citizens?” Leviathan, Vol . 59m pp. 59-79. Zenkyo, Masahiro and Haruya Sakamoto. 2013. “Explaining Public Support for the Japan Restoration Party.” Japanese Journal of Electoral Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 74-89. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2013. “Public Opinion on Nuclear Power after the Accident of Fukushima Nuclear Plant: An Empirical Analysis.” Japanese Journal of Electoral Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 73-86. Non-Peer Reviewed Articles Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2017. “What Are the Determinants of Public Support for Ishin? Empirical Analysis Based on Survey Experiments.” Law and Politics, Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 1-33. Song Jaehyun and Masahiro Zenkyo. 2016. “On Conjoint Survey Experiment: A Methodological Investigation” Law and Politics, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 67-108. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2016. “Social Desirability Bias and Voting Turnout: A trial to Reduce Social Desirability Bias using List Experiment in Japan.” Law and Politics, Vol. 66, No. 4, pp. 1-26. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2015. “Is Japan “Alienated” Society? An Examination of Validity of Political Alienation Scale Based Survey Experiment.” Law and Politics, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 109-136 Zenkyo, Masahiro, Haruya Sakamoto and Shoichiro Ishibashi. 2012. “An Analysis of Osaka Double Election in 2011: Examining Voter choice and Support Bases for Osaka Ishin no Kai.” Kansai University Review of Law and Politics, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp.247-344. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2012. “Democracy and Publicness” Policy Science, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 367-382. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2009. “Delegation to Private Sector in Local Governance: The Empirical Analysis Used Sample Survey of Local Officials” Policy Science, Vol. 16, Special Issues, pp. 55-73. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2009. “Political Distrust, Institutional Reforms and civil Services: can Government Wipe out Political Distrust by Institutional Reforms?” Policy Science, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 65-82. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2008. “The Empirical Analysis of Participants to Neighborhood Association as Political Participants: Why Do Participants to Neighborhood Association Increase?” Policy Science, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 45-60. 3 Conference Presentations Presentations in English Masaru Nishikawa, Takeshi Hieda and Masahiro Zenkyo. 2018. “Do Populists Support Populism? An Examination Through an Online Survey Following the 2017 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Election.” Presented at Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, U. S.. Kido, Hideki and Masahiro Zenkyo. 2015. “How do Macro Political Factors Matter in Motivating of Bureaucrats? A case of Local Governments in Japan.” Presented at Annual General Conference of European Political Science Association, Schloss Schönbrunn, Austria. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2014. “The Local Government Network in Japan.” Presented at International Political Science Association, Montreal, Qc, Canada. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2010. “Public Opinion and Administrative Reform: change and Stability of the cabinet Approval in Koizumi’s term.” Presented at the Research Seminar on Administrative Reforms in Korea and Japan, Hanyang University, Korea. Presentations in Japanese Hieda, Takeshi, Masahiro Zenkyo and Masaru Nishikawa. 2018. “Do Populists Support Populism? An Examination through an Online Survey after the 2017 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Election.” Presented at Japan Association for Comparative Politics, Tohoku University, Japan. Zenkyo, Masahiro and Takeshi Hieda. 2018. “Do People Prefer Populist Messages? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Japan.” Presented at Annual Conference of the Japanese Association of Electoral Studies, Takushoku University, Japan. Akira, Inoue, Haruya Sakamoto, and Masahiro Zenkyo. 2017. “Making the Veil of Ignorance Work: Evidence from Survey Experiments.” Presented at Annual General Conference of the Japanese Political Science Association, Hosei University, Japan. Zenkyo, Masahiro and Jaehyun Song. 2016. “What Do Osaka citizens Prefer on Osaka Metropolitan Plan? The Causal Inference Based on Conjoint Survey Experiment” Presented at Annual Conference of the Japanese Association of Electoral Studies, Nihon University, Japan. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2015. “A comparative Study of Political Attitudes in the Areas Affected by Great East Japan Earthquakes,” Presented at Annual General Conference of the Japanese Political Science Association, chiba University, Japan. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2015. “Social Desirability Bias and Voting Turnout,” Presented at Annual Conference of the Kansai Public Policy Studies Association, Otemon Gakuin University, Japan. Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2014. “An Empirical Analysis of Trust in Electoral commission,” Presented at Annual Conference of the Behaviormetric Society of Japan, Tohoku University, Japan. 4 Zenkyo, Masahiro. 2013. “The Third Poll: An Analysis of the Voting Behavior in the Upper House election in 1989,” Presented at Annual Conference of the Japan Public Choice Society, Tohoku University, Japan. Zenkyo, Masahiro and Haruya Sakamoto. 2013. “Explaining Public Support for the Japan Restoration Party,” Presented at
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