Ko Maeda
Biographic Data
| ID | 3717440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ko Maeda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ko |
| FAMILY NAME | Maeda |
| SIGNATURE | MAEDA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7773-7129 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Beyond binary: A new measure of party ethnicization
In contrast to existing binary conceptualizations of ethnic parties, which often depend on arbitrary thresholds and/or expert judgments, we propose a survey-based continuous scale to measure the extent to which a party receives balanced or unbalanced support from a country’s ethnic groups. We present a dataset of ethnicization scores for 409 parties across 24 countries and use examples from Slovak, Israeli, and American political parties to illus…
Voter disengagement and dissatisfaction under Japan’s mixed electoral system
Conservative Politics and the Dilemma of Immigration in Japan
Conservative parties and politicians are often caught in a dilemma regarding immigration policies. Business interest groups and xenophobic populist forces both support conservative political parties but expect fundamentally different immigration policies. Japan is a rare case among advanced democracies that has experienced neither large-scale immigration nor the emergence of xenophobic populism. Yet, Japan’s conservative government, facing the re…
Wedge Issue Politics in Japan: Why Not Revising the Constitution is Helping the Pro-Revision Ruling Party
The Liberal Democratic Party maintains a dominant position in Japanese politics while the opposition side is fragmented into many parties. Small opposition parties, namely the Communists, are still surviving even though it has been almost three decades since the 1994 electoral law reform, which made it difficult for such parties to exist. Fragmentation of the opposition is giving an electoral advantage to the ruling party. How can small oppositio…
Balance-Minded Voting in Post-2012 Japan
This study employs survey data to characterize a new kind of strategic voting behavior in post-2012 Japan. Since the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) returned to power in 2012, it has been winning every national election, while the opposition camp has been fragmented into many parties, none of which has been seen as a viable contender to the LDP. In this situation in which the LDP will certainly win, there are citizens who vote for an opposition pa…
Electoral incentives, policy compromise, and coalition durability: Japan's LDP–Komeito Government in a mixed electoral system
Political parties’ behavior in coalition formation is commonly explained by their policy-, vote-, and office-seeking incentives. From these perspectives, the 20-year partnership of Japan's ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its pacifistic Komeito junior coalition partner is an anomalous case. The longevity, closeness, and nature of their unlikely partnership challenges core assumptions in existing theories of coalition politic…
Explaining the Surges and Declines of the Japanese Communist Party
The Japanese Communist Party’s tumultuous electoral performance, especially the sudden surge in the 2014 general election, is an intriguing phenomenon. Analysis of electoral data reveals that a large number of votes shifted back and forth between the Communists and a few new right-wing parties in the last three elections
What Motivates Moderation? Policy Shifts of Ruling Parties, Opposition Parties and Niche Parties
What makes political parties moderate their policy platforms? Previous research has emphasised such factors as electoral systems, past election results and changes in voters' preferences as influencing the policy positions that parties take. This study considers a variable that has been ignored in the literature: whether a party is in power or in opposition. I argue that the behaviour of opposition parties stems from their powerless status and th…
Honeymoon or consolidation, or both: Time dependence of democratic durability
Much research has been done to identify factors that facilitate or prevent democratic breakdown. Little attention, however, has been paid to the question of whether and how the baseline risk level (after controlling for the impacts of relevant factors) changes over time. Using a flexible parametric survival model, I analyse the duration of 149 democratic periods (1946–2008) and demonstrate that the baseline risk has an inverted-U shape, which pro…
Determinants of opposition fragmentation: Parliamentary rules and opposition strategies
Whether the opposition in a democratic country is unified or fragmented is an important characteristic that may influence the accountability of government, as a recent study demonstrates that the degree of opposition fragmentation has consequences for the electoral performance of ruling parties. This study explores the determinants of opposition fragmentation using data from 18 advanced democracies. I argue and provide evidence that deliberative …
An Irrational Party of Rational Members: The Collision of Legislators’ Reelection Quest With Party Success in the Japan Socialist Party
This study presents a new explanation to a puzzle regarding the reluctance of the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) to moderate its hard-liner Marxist platform. The author does so by focusing on the preferences and strategies of individual JSP members, in contrast to previous studies that treat the party as a unitary actor. The author shows that Japan’s electoral system created a unique environment in which the electoral prospects for some JSP incumben…
Factors behind the Historic Defeat of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party in 2009
This study seeks to identify the factors that caused the historic defeat of Japan's longdominant party in the 2009 election. Employing district-level data, I show that a large national swing occurred that overrode district-specific characteristics, and that the electoral coordination of opposition parties helped bring about victory
Two Modes of Democratic Breakdown: A Competing Risks Analysis of Democratic Durability
There are two distinctive modes by which democracies become nondemocracies, which have not yet been differentiated in the literature. One is when a democratic government is toppled by a force outside of the government, such as a military coup, and the other is when a democratically elected leader suspends the democratic process. Employing a competing risks model, this article examines the effects of economic and institutional factors on a state's…
Divided We Fall: Opposition Fragmentation and the Electoral Fortunes of Governing Parties
This article introduces the concept of opposition fragmentation into the study of the determinants of election results. Empirical studies have demonstrated that anti-government economic voting is likely to take place where the clarity of responsibility (the degree to which voters can attribute policy responsibility to the government) is high. This argument is extended by focusing on the effects of the degree of opposition fragmentation in influen…
Re-examining the contamination effect of Japan's mixed electoral system using the treatment-effects model
Prime Ministerial Popularity and the Changing Electoral Fortunes of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party
This article explores the impact of prime ministerial popularity on the changing electoral fortunes of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). We show that the popularity of the Japanese prime minister exerted a modest but definite impact on aggregate vote shares captured by the LDP throughout the postwar period
Learning in Hierarchies: An Empirical Test Using Library Catalogues
The formal hierarchical structures of organizations can be expected to affect the organizations' behavior in many different ways. One kind of impact is that their structures may affect how their knowledge is organized. This is important because the different ways in which knowledge can be organized may affect what the organizations' decision makers learn from the information that their organizations have gathered, stored, and processed. However, …
Duration of Party Control in Parliamentary and Presidential Governments: A Study of 65 Democracies, 1950 to 1998
Most of the previous work on political stability uses cabinet duration or leadership duration to measure stability. This study, however, focuses on another area of stability, namely the party control of the executive branch. This approach not only allows us to compare political durability in presidential and parliamentary systems directly, but it also, we believe, better reflects policy changes that stem from government party composition. Our ana…
The general election in Japan, September 2005
Two Modes of Democratic Breakdown: A Competing Risks Analysis of Democratic Durability
There are two distinctive modes by which democracies become nondemocracies, which have not yet been differentiated in the literature. One is when a democratic government is toppled by a force outside of the government, such as a military coup, and the other is when a democratically elected leader suspends the democratic process. Employing a competing risks model, this article examines the effects of economic and institutional factors on a state's…
Electoral incentives, policy compromise, and coalition durability: Japan's LDP–Komeito Government in a mixed electoral system
Political parties’ behavior in coalition formation is commonly explained by their policy-, vote-, and office-seeking incentives. From these perspectives, the 20-year partnership of Japan's ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its pacifistic Komeito junior coalition partner is an anomalous case. The longevity, closeness, and nature of their unlikely partnership challenges core assumptions in existing theories of coalition politic…
Divided We Fall: Opposition Fragmentation and the Electoral Fortunes of Governing Parties
This article introduces the concept of opposition fragmentation into the study of the determinants of election results. Empirical studies have demonstrated that anti-government economic voting is likely to take place where the clarity of responsibility (the degree to which voters can attribute policy responsibility to the government) is high. This argument is extended by focusing on the effects of the degree of opposition fragmentation in influen…
Re-examining the contamination effect of Japan's mixed electoral system using the treatment-effects model
Determinants of opposition fragmentation: Parliamentary rules and opposition strategies
Whether the opposition in a democratic country is unified or fragmented is an important characteristic that may influence the accountability of government, as a recent study demonstrates that the degree of opposition fragmentation has consequences for the electoral performance of ruling parties. This study explores the determinants of opposition fragmentation using data from 18 advanced democracies. I argue and provide evidence that deliberative …
An Irrational Party of Rational Members: The Collision of Legislators’ Reelection Quest With Party Success in the Japan Socialist Party
This study presents a new explanation to a puzzle regarding the reluctance of the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) to moderate its hard-liner Marxist platform. The author does so by focusing on the preferences and strategies of individual JSP members, in contrast to previous studies that treat the party as a unitary actor. The author shows that Japan’s electoral system created a unique environment in which the electoral prospects for some JSP incumben…
Duration of Party Control in Parliamentary and Presidential Governments: A Study of 65 Democracies, 1950 to 1998
Most of the previous work on political stability uses cabinet duration or leadership duration to measure stability. This study, however, focuses on another area of stability, namely the party control of the executive branch. This approach not only allows us to compare political durability in presidential and parliamentary systems directly, but it also, we believe, better reflects policy changes that stem from government party composition. Our ana…
Learning in Hierarchies: An Empirical Test Using Library Catalogues
The formal hierarchical structures of organizations can be expected to affect the organizations' behavior in many different ways. One kind of impact is that their structures may affect how their knowledge is organized. This is important because the different ways in which knowledge can be organized may affect what the organizations' decision makers learn from the information that their organizations have gathered, stored, and processed. However, …
The general election in Japan, September 2005
Voter disengagement and dissatisfaction under Japan’s mixed electoral system
Factors behind the Historic Defeat of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party in 2009
This study seeks to identify the factors that caused the historic defeat of Japan's longdominant party in the 2009 election. Employing district-level data, I show that a large national swing occurred that overrode district-specific characteristics, and that the electoral coordination of opposition parties helped bring about victory
Prime Ministerial Popularity and the Changing Electoral Fortunes of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party
This article explores the impact of prime ministerial popularity on the changing electoral fortunes of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). We show that the popularity of the Japanese prime minister exerted a modest but definite impact on aggregate vote shares captured by the LDP throughout the postwar period
Wedge Issue Politics in Japan: Why Not Revising the Constitution is Helping the Pro-Revision Ruling Party
The Liberal Democratic Party maintains a dominant position in Japanese politics while the opposition side is fragmented into many parties. Small opposition parties, namely the Communists, are still surviving even though it has been almost three decades since the 1994 electoral law reform, which made it difficult for such parties to exist. Fragmentation of the opposition is giving an electoral advantage to the ruling party. How can small oppositio…
What Motivates Moderation? Policy Shifts of Ruling Parties, Opposition Parties and Niche Parties
What makes political parties moderate their policy platforms? Previous research has emphasised such factors as electoral systems, past election results and changes in voters' preferences as influencing the policy positions that parties take. This study considers a variable that has been ignored in the literature: whether a party is in power or in opposition. I argue that the behaviour of opposition parties stems from their powerless status and th…
Honeymoon or consolidation, or both: Time dependence of democratic durability
Much research has been done to identify factors that facilitate or prevent democratic breakdown. Little attention, however, has been paid to the question of whether and how the baseline risk level (after controlling for the impacts of relevant factors) changes over time. Using a flexible parametric survival model, I analyse the duration of 149 democratic periods (1946–2008) and demonstrate that the baseline risk has an inverted-U shape, which pro…
Duration of Party Control in Parliamentary and Presidential Governments: A Study of 65 Democracies, 1950 to 1998
Most of the previous work on political stability uses cabinet duration or leadership duration to measure stability. This study, however, focuses on another area of stability, namely the party control of the executive branch. This approach not only allows us to compare political durability in presidential and parliamentary systems directly, but it also, we believe, better reflects policy changes that stem from government party composition. Our ana…
The general election in Japan, September 2005
Prime Ministerial Popularity and the Changing Electoral Fortunes of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party
This article explores the impact of prime ministerial popularity on the changing electoral fortunes of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). We show that the popularity of the Japanese prime minister exerted a modest but definite impact on aggregate vote shares captured by the LDP throughout the postwar period
Learning in Hierarchies: An Empirical Test Using Library Catalogues
The formal hierarchical structures of organizations can be expected to affect the organizations' behavior in many different ways. One kind of impact is that their structures may affect how their knowledge is organized. This is important because the different ways in which knowledge can be organized may affect what the organizations' decision makers learn from the information that their organizations have gathered, stored, and processed. However, …
Re-examining the contamination effect of Japan's mixed electoral system using the treatment-effects model
Factors behind the Historic Defeat of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party in 2009
This study seeks to identify the factors that caused the historic defeat of Japan's longdominant party in the 2009 election. Employing district-level data, I show that a large national swing occurred that overrode district-specific characteristics, and that the electoral coordination of opposition parties helped bring about victory
Two Modes of Democratic Breakdown: A Competing Risks Analysis of Democratic Durability
There are two distinctive modes by which democracies become nondemocracies, which have not yet been differentiated in the literature. One is when a democratic government is toppled by a force outside of the government, such as a military coup, and the other is when a democratically elected leader suspends the democratic process. Employing a competing risks model, this article examines the effects of economic and institutional factors on a state's…
Divided We Fall: Opposition Fragmentation and the Electoral Fortunes of Governing Parties
This article introduces the concept of opposition fragmentation into the study of the determinants of election results. Empirical studies have demonstrated that anti-government economic voting is likely to take place where the clarity of responsibility (the degree to which voters can attribute policy responsibility to the government) is high. This argument is extended by focusing on the effects of the degree of opposition fragmentation in influen…
An Irrational Party of Rational Members: The Collision of Legislators’ Reelection Quest With Party Success in the Japan Socialist Party
This study presents a new explanation to a puzzle regarding the reluctance of the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) to moderate its hard-liner Marxist platform. The author does so by focusing on the preferences and strategies of individual JSP members, in contrast to previous studies that treat the party as a unitary actor. The author shows that Japan’s electoral system created a unique environment in which the electoral prospects for some JSP incumben…
Determinants of opposition fragmentation: Parliamentary rules and opposition strategies
Whether the opposition in a democratic country is unified or fragmented is an important characteristic that may influence the accountability of government, as a recent study demonstrates that the degree of opposition fragmentation has consequences for the electoral performance of ruling parties. This study explores the determinants of opposition fragmentation using data from 18 advanced democracies. I argue and provide evidence that deliberative …
What Motivates Moderation? Policy Shifts of Ruling Parties, Opposition Parties and Niche Parties
What makes political parties moderate their policy platforms? Previous research has emphasised such factors as electoral systems, past election results and changes in voters' preferences as influencing the policy positions that parties take. This study considers a variable that has been ignored in the literature: whether a party is in power or in opposition. I argue that the behaviour of opposition parties stems from their powerless status and th…
Honeymoon or consolidation, or both: Time dependence of democratic durability
Much research has been done to identify factors that facilitate or prevent democratic breakdown. Little attention, however, has been paid to the question of whether and how the baseline risk level (after controlling for the impacts of relevant factors) changes over time. Using a flexible parametric survival model, I analyse the duration of 149 democratic periods (1946–2008) and demonstrate that the baseline risk has an inverted-U shape, which pro…
Explaining the Surges and Declines of the Japanese Communist Party
The Japanese Communist Party’s tumultuous electoral performance, especially the sudden surge in the 2014 general election, is an intriguing phenomenon. Analysis of electoral data reveals that a large number of votes shifted back and forth between the Communists and a few new right-wing parties in the last three elections
Electoral incentives, policy compromise, and coalition durability: Japan's LDP–Komeito Government in a mixed electoral system
Political parties’ behavior in coalition formation is commonly explained by their policy-, vote-, and office-seeking incentives. From these perspectives, the 20-year partnership of Japan's ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its pacifistic Komeito junior coalition partner is an anomalous case. The longevity, closeness, and nature of their unlikely partnership challenges core assumptions in existing theories of coalition politic…
Wedge Issue Politics in Japan: Why Not Revising the Constitution is Helping the Pro-Revision Ruling Party
The Liberal Democratic Party maintains a dominant position in Japanese politics while the opposition side is fragmented into many parties. Small opposition parties, namely the Communists, are still surviving even though it has been almost three decades since the 1994 electoral law reform, which made it difficult for such parties to exist. Fragmentation of the opposition is giving an electoral advantage to the ruling party. How can small oppositio…
Balance-Minded Voting in Post-2012 Japan
This study employs survey data to characterize a new kind of strategic voting behavior in post-2012 Japan. Since the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) returned to power in 2012, it has been winning every national election, while the opposition camp has been fragmented into many parties, none of which has been seen as a viable contender to the LDP. In this situation in which the LDP will certainly win, there are citizens who vote for an opposition pa…
Beyond binary: A new measure of party ethnicization
In contrast to existing binary conceptualizations of ethnic parties, which often depend on arbitrary thresholds and/or expert judgments, we propose a survey-based continuous scale to measure the extent to which a party receives balanced or unbalanced support from a country’s ethnic groups. We present a dataset of ethnicization scores for 409 parties across 24 countries and use examples from Slovak, Israeli, and American political parties to illus…
Voter disengagement and dissatisfaction under Japan’s mixed electoral system
Conservative Politics and the Dilemma of Immigration in Japan
Conservative parties and politicians are often caught in a dilemma regarding immigration policies. Business interest groups and xenophobic populist forces both support conservative political parties but expect fundamentally different immigration policies. Japan is a rare case among advanced democracies that has experienced neither large-scale immigration nor the emergence of xenophobic populism. Yet, Japan’s conservative government, facing the re…
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