Junko Kato
Biographic Data
| ID | 740788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Junko Kato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Junko |
| FAMILY NAME | Kato |
| SIGNATURE | KATO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Tokyo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4832-8024 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Generational differences in economic perceptions
Historical institutionalists have long argued that major events can shape long-term economic perceptions, but the identification of birth-cohort differences has been stymied by methodological difficulties, notably the APC problem. Taking advantage of unique Japanese data and tailored Bayesian modeling, we identify cohort effects in economic perceptions and show that they follow objective macroeconomic trends countercyclically. Cohorts whose forma…
The presence of a social context increases support for redistribution: Inequality aversion and risk aversion
Social insurance motivations consider the welfare of others who are in potentially unfavorable situations. However, their role in increasing support for redistribution is not yet fully understood. The experiment reported here examined distributional decisions in which participants determined income distribution without being informed to which income class they would belong. This was contrasted with decisions made in lottery situations. Lottery de…
A note for the special issue honoring the legacy of Susan Pharr
The editors and authors provide a brief postscript about the contributions and the legacy of Susan Pharr for each author and the field of Japanese politics
Does taxation lose its role in contemporary democratisation? State revenue production revisited in the third wave of democratisation
Echoing the call for ‘no taxation without representation’, the development of modern taxation went hand‐in‐hand with Western democratisation. However, taxation appears to have lost its role in the third wave of democratisation. Unlike early democratisers, contemporary autocracies tend to introduce a ready‐made modern taxation system before democratisation. With advice from international organisations, the value added tax (VAT), which mature democ…
The divergent paths of tax development during different waves of democratization
Taxation is a critical part of state power and has evolved with modernization. Although tax systems are expected to converge as countries achieve economic development, there are variations in the scale and structure of tax revenues. A recurring question is which tax dominates state financing in democracies. Some scholars associate mature democracies with progressive income taxation, and others find that democracies have relied on regressive taxat…
Human development without democratic accountability: How Regressive Taxation Contributes to Human Development Through State Capacity
State revenue production since the third wave of democratization contrasts sharply with the experiences of the first and second waves of democratization. The late democratizers tend to adopt and raise revenue from a regressive tax on consumption (the value-added tax: VAT), which is more compatible with economic development in global markets but is considered as unequal taxation. How does the weak redistributive (i.e., regressive) effect of this f…
The CrossSong Puzzle: Developing a Logic Puzzle for Musical Thinking
There is considerable interest in music-based games and apps. However, in existing games, music generally serves as an accompaniment or as a reward for progress. We set out to design a game where paying attention to the music would be essential to making deductions and solving the puzzle. The result is the CrossSong Puzzle, a novel type of music-based logic puzzle that integrates musical and logical reasoning. The game presents a player with a gr…
Minutes of the August 28, 2013, Apsa Council Meeting
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Coalition Governments, Party Switching, and the Rise and Decline of Parties: Changing Japanese Party Politics since 1993
Since 1993, coalition governments have replaced the 38-year-long, one-party dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party (the LDP) in Japan. Except for one year, from 1993 to 1994, the LDP has remained a key party in successive governing coalitions, but the dynamics of party competition has been completely transformed since the period of the LDP's dominance. Although the LDP has survived to form a variety of coalitions ranging from a minority to an …
Roundtable Discussion of Richard J. Samuels's Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan
Richard Samuels's book Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan raises a number of important issues concerning political leadership and the role individual leaders can play in a nation's history. The book won the 2003 Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the 2004 Jervis-Schroeder Prize for the best book in International History and Politics, awarded by the International History and Politic…
Government Partisanship and Managing the Economy: Japan and Sweden in Comparative Perspective
It is generally taken for granted that countries governed by leftist governments expand social policies and have an affinity for active fiscal policy that implies higher tolerance of deficit-ridden budgets. In contrast, conservative governments are taken to be less likely to favor welfare expansion, especially when it has negative fiscal consequences. We challenge this conventional wisdom by comparing the reactions of the Swedish and Japanese gov…
Political data in 2005
Japan
Effects of mora deletion, nonword repetition, rapid naming, and visual search performance on beginning reading in Japanese
Japan
Japan
Social policies in Switzerland and Japan: Managing Change in Liberal‐Conservative Welfare States
Both the Swiss and the Japanese welfare states are difficult to classify in any one of the most widespread typologies, as each of the two countries combines features that are typical of the liberal model, such as a large private sector role in the delivery of welfare, with aspects that are more reminiscent of the conservative model. These include a social insurance system geared toward status preservation and low employment rates for mothers. In …
Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State: Path Dependence and Policy Diffusion
Government size has attracted much scholarly attention. Political economists have considered large public expenditures a product of leftist rule and an expression of a stronger representation of labour interest. Although the size of the government has become the most important policy difference between the left and right in post-war politics, the formation of the government's funding base is also important. Junko Kato finds that the differentiati…
Policy and Party Competition in Japan after the Election of 2000
This paper reports the results of the latest in a series of expert surveys of party policy positions in Japan and considers some of the implications of these results for our understanding of party competition and government formation in recent Japanese politics
Japan
In 2000, Japanese party politics continued to experience many changes. Although these changes may not have surprised attentive observers of Japanese politics, they were not necessarily expected in industrial democracies. They included the unexpected formation of the Mori cabinet following the fatal illness of Prime Minister Obuchi, the reshuffling of the governing coalition accompanied by the breakup of the Liberal Party, and revisions of the ele…
Factionalisme, coalitions et fragmentation politique. Qu'est-ce qui a vraiment changé dans le système partisan au Japon et en Italie dans la décennie 1990
L'Italie et le Japon ont longtemps été caractérisés par la domination d'un seul parti, la Démocratie chrétienne et le Parti libéral démocrate. Cette domination s'est traduite par l'essor et l'institutionnalisation d'unfactionalisme interne à chacun de ces deux partis. Les auteurs rappellent d'abord les facteurs qui ont contribué à son développement. Ils insistent ensuite sur les effets des modes de scrutin, les processus de désignation des diri…
Dynamic approaches to government formation and the generic instability of decisive structures in Japan
Teachers’ skill ratings of children with learning disabilities: A comparison of the United States and Japan
Japan
Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy
When the Party Breaks Up: Exit and Voice among Japanese Legislators
In exploring the conflicts between individual interests and the conditions that facilitate the disintegration of a political party, this article modifies the exit, voice, and loyalty framework developed by Hirschman. The utility of that framework is examined using the recent change in Japan, that is, the demise of the so-called 1955 system, in which the predominant conservatives confined the socialists to the status of a major but perennial oppos…
Institutions and Rationality in Politics – Three Varieties of Neo-Institutionalists
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Dynamic approaches to government formation and the generic instability of decisive structures in Japan
Does taxation lose its role in contemporary democratisation? State revenue production revisited in the third wave of democratisation
Echoing the call for ‘no taxation without representation’, the development of modern taxation went hand‐in‐hand with Western democratisation. However, taxation appears to have lost its role in the third wave of democratisation. Unlike early democratisers, contemporary autocracies tend to introduce a ready‐made modern taxation system before democratisation. With advice from international organisations, the value added tax (VAT), which mature democ…
Policy and Party Competition in Japan after the Election of 2000
This paper reports the results of the latest in a series of expert surveys of party policy positions in Japan and considers some of the implications of these results for our understanding of party competition and government formation in recent Japanese politics
Political data in 2005
Government Partisanship and Managing the Economy: Japan and Sweden in Comparative Perspective
It is generally taken for granted that countries governed by leftist governments expand social policies and have an affinity for active fiscal policy that implies higher tolerance of deficit-ridden budgets. In contrast, conservative governments are taken to be less likely to favor welfare expansion, especially when it has negative fiscal consequences. We challenge this conventional wisdom by comparing the reactions of the Swedish and Japanese gov…
Coalition Governments, Party Switching, and the Rise and Decline of Parties: Changing Japanese Party Politics since 1993
Since 1993, coalition governments have replaced the 38-year-long, one-party dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party (the LDP) in Japan. Except for one year, from 1993 to 1994, the LDP has remained a key party in successive governing coalitions, but the dynamics of party competition has been completely transformed since the period of the LDP's dominance. Although the LDP has survived to form a variety of coalitions ranging from a minority to an …
Theories of Government Formation and the 1996 General Election in Japan
This paper takes a number of theories that have been used to analyse government formation in West European parliamentary democracies and applies them to the government formation process in Japan after the 1996 general election. These models underline the continuing importance of the LDP in the government formation process, despite the loss of its overall majority. The application of government formation models to the Japanese case also highlights…
Public Pension Reforms in the United States and Japan: A Study of Comparative Public Policy
In the early 1980s, facing the financial crises in their public pension systems, the governments of both the United States and Japan proposed reform. In each case the reform efforts failed. A few years later policy proposals by special commissions led to the enactment of reform legislation in both countries. No major political upheavals occurred in the intervening years; but in both cases, failure turned into success in a short period. The articl…
Human development without democratic accountability: How Regressive Taxation Contributes to Human Development Through State Capacity
State revenue production since the third wave of democratization contrasts sharply with the experiences of the first and second waves of democratization. The late democratizers tend to adopt and raise revenue from a regressive tax on consumption (the value-added tax: VAT), which is more compatible with economic development in global markets but is considered as unequal taxation. How does the weak redistributive (i.e., regressive) effect of this f…
Social policies in Switzerland and Japan: Managing Change in Liberal‐Conservative Welfare States
Both the Swiss and the Japanese welfare states are difficult to classify in any one of the most widespread typologies, as each of the two countries combines features that are typical of the liberal model, such as a large private sector role in the delivery of welfare, with aspects that are more reminiscent of the conservative model. These include a social insurance system geared toward status preservation and low employment rates for mothers. In …
The presence of a social context increases support for redistribution: Inequality aversion and risk aversion
Social insurance motivations consider the welfare of others who are in potentially unfavorable situations. However, their role in increasing support for redistribution is not yet fully understood. The experiment reported here examined distributional decisions in which participants determined income distribution without being informed to which income class they would belong. This was contrasted with decisions made in lottery situations. Lottery de…
The divergent paths of tax development during different waves of democratization
Taxation is a critical part of state power and has evolved with modernization. Although tax systems are expected to converge as countries achieve economic development, there are variations in the scale and structure of tax revenues. A recurring question is which tax dominates state financing in democracies. Some scholars associate mature democracies with progressive income taxation, and others find that democracies have relied on regressive taxat…
Japan
Japan
Japan
Party Policy and Cabinet Portfolios in Japan, 1996
This research note report the results of an expert survey of party policy positions and the relative importance of different cabinet portfolios in Japan at the time of the 1996 general election. The survey replicates earlier expert surveys conducted in a wide range of democratic systems by Laver and Hunt (1992), but uses a survey form adapted to the specific Japanese context, translated into Japanese, and administered from a Japanese academic ins…
Public Pension Reforms in the United States and Japan: A Study of Comparative Public Policy
In the early 1980s, facing the financial crises in their public pension systems, the governments of both the United States and Japan proposed reform. In each case the reform efforts failed. A few years later policy proposals by special commissions led to the enactment of reform legislation in both countries. No major political upheavals occurred in the intervening years; but in both cases, failure turned into success in a short period. The articl…
The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality: Tax Politics in Japan
Through a detailed account of the political battles over Japanese tax reform during the last two decades, Junko Kato draws an unconventional portrait of bureaucratic motivation, showing how fiscal bureaucrats exploit their unique technical knowledge to influence policymaking. Rejecting the notion that the monopolization of policy expertise leads to bureaucratic domination, Kato contends that bureaucrats seek to increase their influence upon polit…
Institutions and Rationality in Politics – Three Varieties of Neo-Institutionalists
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Tax policy in Japan after the demise of conservative dominance
The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality: Tax Politics in Japan
Japan
Theories of Government Formation and the 1996 General Election in Japan
This paper takes a number of theories that have been used to analyse government formation in West European parliamentary democracies and applies them to the government formation process in Japan after the 1996 general election. These models underline the continuing importance of the LDP in the government formation process, despite the loss of its overall majority. The application of government formation models to the Japanese case also highlights…
Party Policy and Cabinet Portfolios in Japan, 1996
This research note report the results of an expert survey of party policy positions and the relative importance of different cabinet portfolios in Japan at the time of the 1996 general election. The survey replicates earlier expert surveys conducted in a wide range of democratic systems by Laver and Hunt (1992), but uses a survey form adapted to the specific Japanese context, translated into Japanese, and administered from a Japanese academic ins…
When the Party Breaks Up: Exit and Voice among Japanese Legislators
In exploring the conflicts between individual interests and the conditions that facilitate the disintegration of a political party, this article modifies the exit, voice, and loyalty framework developed by Hirschman. The utility of that framework is examined using the recent change in Japan, that is, the demise of the so-called 1955 system, in which the predominant conservatives confined the socialists to the status of a major but perennial oppos…
Japan
Teachers’ skill ratings of children with learning disabilities: A comparison of the United States and Japan
Japan
Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy
Japan
In 2000, Japanese party politics continued to experience many changes. Although these changes may not have surprised attentive observers of Japanese politics, they were not necessarily expected in industrial democracies. They included the unexpected formation of the Mori cabinet following the fatal illness of Prime Minister Obuchi, the reshuffling of the governing coalition accompanied by the breakup of the Liberal Party, and revisions of the ele…
Factionalisme, coalitions et fragmentation politique. Qu'est-ce qui a vraiment changé dans le système partisan au Japon et en Italie dans la décennie 1990
L'Italie et le Japon ont longtemps été caractérisés par la domination d'un seul parti, la Démocratie chrétienne et le Parti libéral démocrate. Cette domination s'est traduite par l'essor et l'institutionnalisation d'unfactionalisme interne à chacun de ces deux partis. Les auteurs rappellent d'abord les facteurs qui ont contribué à son développement. Ils insistent ensuite sur les effets des modes de scrutin, les processus de désignation des diri…
Dynamic approaches to government formation and the generic instability of decisive structures in Japan
Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State: Path Dependence and Policy Diffusion
Government size has attracted much scholarly attention. Political economists have considered large public expenditures a product of leftist rule and an expression of a stronger representation of labour interest. Although the size of the government has become the most important policy difference between the left and right in post-war politics, the formation of the government's funding base is also important. Junko Kato finds that the differentiati…
Policy and Party Competition in Japan after the Election of 2000
This paper reports the results of the latest in a series of expert surveys of party policy positions in Japan and considers some of the implications of these results for our understanding of party competition and government formation in recent Japanese politics
Japan
Social policies in Switzerland and Japan: Managing Change in Liberal‐Conservative Welfare States
Both the Swiss and the Japanese welfare states are difficult to classify in any one of the most widespread typologies, as each of the two countries combines features that are typical of the liberal model, such as a large private sector role in the delivery of welfare, with aspects that are more reminiscent of the conservative model. These include a social insurance system geared toward status preservation and low employment rates for mothers. In …
Effects of mora deletion, nonword repetition, rapid naming, and visual search performance on beginning reading in Japanese
Japan
Roundtable Discussion of Richard J. Samuels's Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan
Richard Samuels's book Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan raises a number of important issues concerning political leadership and the role individual leaders can play in a nation's history. The book won the 2003 Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the 2004 Jervis-Schroeder Prize for the best book in International History and Politics, awarded by the International History and Politic…
Government Partisanship and Managing the Economy: Japan and Sweden in Comparative Perspective
It is generally taken for granted that countries governed by leftist governments expand social policies and have an affinity for active fiscal policy that implies higher tolerance of deficit-ridden budgets. In contrast, conservative governments are taken to be less likely to favor welfare expansion, especially when it has negative fiscal consequences. We challenge this conventional wisdom by comparing the reactions of the Swedish and Japanese gov…
Political data in 2005
Political science (32 works) · Politics (25 works) · Law (24 works) · Law (19 works) · Economics (18 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (11 works) · Democracy (9 works)