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教授

粕谷祐子

Kasuya, Yuko

法学部政治学科

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Keio Researchers Information System (K-RIS): Researcher Details - Kasuya, Yuko

Introduction

Yuko Kasuya is a distinguished researcher focusing on political regime analysis, particularly in Asia. Her work examines the emergence and sustainability of regimes, democratic transitions, and electoral systems. Kasuya's research provides valuable insights into the coexistence of democracy and autocracy, and the dynamics of populism and electoral malapportionment.

Achievements

■Political Regime Analysis
・Research Objective: To analyze the patterns and implications of democratic backsliding in Southeast Asia using the Varieties of Democracy dataset.
- Title: Introduction: Democratic backsliding in Southeast Asia, Kasuya Yuko, Tan Netina （Asian Journal of Comparative Politics） 9 （ 1 ） 3-8 Mar. 2024
・Research Objective: To explore the impact of executive selection systems on democratic transitions from electoral authoritarianism.
- Title: The Perils of Parliamentarism: Executive Selection Systems and Democratic Transitions from Electoral Authoritarianism, Higashijima Masaaki, Kasuya Yuko （Studies in Comparative International Development） 57 （ 2 ） 198-220 Jun. 2022
・Research Objective: To review and analyze the transformation and sustainability of dominant political parties in Asia.
- Title: The transformation of dominant parties in Asia: Introduction to the special issue, Kasuya Yuko, Sawasdee Siripan Nogsuan （Asian Journal of Comparative Politics） 4 （ 1 ） 3-7 Mar. 2019
■Populism and Political Dynamics
・Research Objective: To examine the validity of the claim that Filipino voters are acquiring a 'taste for illiberal rule' in the context of democratic backsliding in the Philippines.
- Title: Democratic backsliding in the Philippines: Are voters becoming illiberal?, Kasuya Yuko, Calimbahin Cleo Anne A （Asian Journal of Comparative Politics） 9 （ 1 ） 121-132 Mar. 2024
・Research Objective: To investigate the role of social desirability bias in the popular support for Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte during democratic backsliding.
- Title: Pretending to Support? Duterte's Popularity and Democratic Backsliding in the Philippines, Kasuya Yuko, Miwa Hirofumi （Journal of East Asian Studies） 1-27 Sep. 2023
・Research Objective: To analyze the impact of Duterte's populist mobilization on the outcomes of the 2019 midterm elections in the Philippines.
- Title: The 2019 midterm elections in the Philippines: Party system pathologies and Duterte’s populist mobilization, Teehankee Julio Cabral, Kasuya Yuko （Asian Journal of Comparative Politics） 5 （ 1 ） 69-81 Mar. 2020
■Electoral Systems and Malapportionment
・Research Objective: To analyze the shift towards consensus democracy in Asia and the limitations of institutional design in representing identity cleavages.
- Title: The shift to consensus democracy and limits of institutional design in Asia, Kasuya Yuko, Reilly Benjamin （The Pacific Review） 36 （ 4 ） 844-870 Jul. 2023
・Research Objective: To develop a framework for empirically deriving thresholds for continuous democracy measures using categorical democracy measures as benchmarks.
- Title: Re-examining thresholds of continuous democracy measures, Kasuya Yuko, Mori Kota （Contemporary Politics） 28 （ 4 ） 365-385 Aug. 2022
・Research Objective: To introduce a measure called alpha-divergence to decompose legislative malapportionment into stages and analyze demographic and political factors contributing to it.
- Title: Malapportionment in space and time: Decompose it!, Kamahara Yuta, Wada Junichiro, Kasuya Yuko （Electoral Studies） 71 102301 Jun. 2021
■Political Parties and Elections
Research Objective: To understand populism in Asia through temporal and international comparisons, focusing on Japan and the Philippines as central cases.
Research Objective: To explain the historical origins of democracy and dictatorship in Southeast Asia using a historical institutionalist approach, focusing on the political dynamics at the time of decolonization as critical junctures.
・Research Objective: To examine how presidentialism influences legislative party system formation in the Philippines and why the existing theory does not adequately explain the country's multi-party system.
- Title: Conclusion: Lessons from the Study of Asian Presidentialism, Kasuya Yuko （Presidents, Assemblies and Policy-making in Asia） 194-203
■Data and Methodology
・Research Objective: To quantitatively analyze voters' perceptions and evaluations of dynastic politics in Japan.
- Title: Voters’ perceptions and evaluations of dynastic politics in Japan, Miwa Hirofumi, Kasuya Yuko, Ono Yoshikuni （Asian Journal of Comparative Politics） 8 （ 3 ） 671-688 Sep. 2023

Areas of Research

・Political Science

Social Contributions

・Regime Transitions
・Measuring Democracy
・Southeast Asian Politics

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Areas of Research

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