Reo Matsuzaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 334951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reo Matsuzaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reo |
| FAMILY NAME | Matsuzaki |
| SIGNATURE | MATSUZAKI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7130-2303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Simulating Reform
According to official statistics, the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program is no more. After a 2013 federal court ruling declared the program unconstitutional, recorded stop-and-frisks fell from a peak of nearly 700,000 in 2011 to fewer than 10,000 by 2020. We demonstrate that this portrayal of the program's demise is more fiction than reality—a simulation sustained through underreporting and reclassification of pedestrian stops into categories that dra…
Fictive Politics
No systematic framework exists to analyze the different forms of fictions in politics. We develop the concept of fictive politics to illuminate how actors simulate selective, alternative, or entirely fictional representations of reality while dissimulating incompatible facts. We distinguish three ideal types: deceptions, where audiences are unaware that they are facing a fiction; veiled facts, where audiences suspect a fiction but choose not to p…
Façade Fictions
Around 1900, at least 97 percent of homicide victims in Japan were newborn children. Official statistics obscured this fact by reporting only a handful of infanticides each year, but they also preserved it in the guise of impossibly frequent stillbirths. We argue that this striking failure of law enforcement did not reflect insufficient state capacity. The statistics are best understood as the result of a performance, jointly delivered by subject…
When Counterinsurgent Institutions Persist
State Building Amid Resistance
Taiwan under Japanese rule (1895–1945) is among the most successful examples of state building in the modern era. It is also a case where success was unlikely: Taiwan was an ethnically divided and violent frontier region of the Qing empire, where heavily armed communities had resisted attempts by rulers to exert control over their affairs for centuries. Unable to obtain the willing cooperation of community leaders in substantiating government aut…
State Building Amid Resistance
Taiwan under Japanese rule (1895–1945) is among the most successful examples of state building in the modern era. It is also a case where success was unlikely: Taiwan was an ethnically divided and violent frontier region of the Qing empire, where heavily armed communities had resisted attempts by rulers to exert control over their affairs for centuries. Unable to obtain the willing cooperation of community leaders in substantiating government aut…
Façade Fictions
Around 1900, at least 97 percent of homicide victims in Japan were newborn children. Official statistics obscured this fact by reporting only a handful of infanticides each year, but they also preserved it in the guise of impossibly frequent stillbirths. We argue that this striking failure of law enforcement did not reflect insufficient state capacity. The statistics are best understood as the result of a performance, jointly delivered by subject…
State Building Amid Resistance
Taiwan under Japanese rule (1895–1945) is among the most successful examples of state building in the modern era. It is also a case where success was unlikely: Taiwan was an ethnically divided and violent frontier region of the Qing empire, where heavily armed communities had resisted attempts by rulers to exert control over their affairs for centuries. Unable to obtain the willing cooperation of community leaders in substantiating government aut…
When Counterinsurgent Institutions Persist
Façade Fictions
Around 1900, at least 97 percent of homicide victims in Japan were newborn children. Official statistics obscured this fact by reporting only a handful of infanticides each year, but they also preserved it in the guise of impossibly frequent stillbirths. We argue that this striking failure of law enforcement did not reflect insufficient state capacity. The statistics are best understood as the result of a performance, jointly delivered by subject…
Simulating Reform
According to official statistics, the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program is no more. After a 2013 federal court ruling declared the program unconstitutional, recorded stop-and-frisks fell from a peak of nearly 700,000 in 2011 to fewer than 10,000 by 2020. We demonstrate that this portrayal of the program's demise is more fiction than reality—a simulation sustained through underreporting and reclassification of pedestrian stops into categories that dra…
Fictive Politics
No systematic framework exists to analyze the different forms of fictions in politics. We develop the concept of fictive politics to illuminate how actors simulate selective, alternative, or entirely fictional representations of reality while dissimulating incompatible facts. We distinguish three ideal types: deceptions, where audiences are unaware that they are facing a fiction; veiled facts, where audiences suspect a fiction but choose not to p…
Political science (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · State (computer science (2 works) · Accountability (1 works)