Each academic year, Program Associates and Postdoctoral Fellows submit their research papers to the Program's Occasional Paper Series (OPS). Selected papers are available below, with the author's permission.
Cheung, Gabrielle. 2022. “Democracy, Free Trade, and Backlash Mitigation”. 22-cg_cheung_gabrielle.pdf
Harada, Masataka, Gaku Ito, and Daniel M. Smith. 2022. “Using Cell-phone Mobility Data to Study Voter Turnout”. 22-hm_harada_ito_smith.pdf
Kubo, Yoshiaki. 2021. “The Micro-Foundations of Japan's Base Politics: Regional Disparity and Direct Democracy”. 21-02_kubo_yoshiaki.pdf
McClean, Charles. 2021. “Does the Underrepresentation of Young People in Political Institutions Matter for Social Spending?”. 21-04_mcclean.pdf
Nagase, Ryosuke. 2021. “An Exploration Into Effective Public-Private Partnerships in Japan Through an Analysis of SIB Cases in the Prisoner Reentry Field in the U.S.”. 21-05_nagase.pdf
Nakao, Takashi. 2021. “Duties and Taxes for Cross-Border E-Commerce: A Comparative Analysis of the De Minimis Threshold”. 21-06_nakao_takashi.pdf
Oue, Sadamasa. 2021. “Reforming the Japan-U.S. Security Alliance: Threats, Missions, and Costs”. 21-09_oue.pdf
Stanescu, Diana. 2021. “Restructuring Japan: Administrative Reform and the Quest for Free Trade”. 21-13_stanescu.pdf
Endo, Yuji. 2020. “Nativism in the United States and President Trump's Anti-Immigration Policy”. 20-01_endo.pdf
Park, Seo-Hyun. 2020. “The Militarization of State Building in Late Nineteenth Century East Asia”. 20-08_park.pdf
Shikata, Noriyuki. 2020. “U.S. Trade Policy Toward China: The Trump Administration and Future Prospects”. 20-09_shikata.pdf
Iida, Keisuke. 2019. “How has Japan Coped with the Trump Administration's Trade Policy?”. 19-02_iida.pdf
Magnier-Watanabe, Rémy. 2019. “Japanese Investment Location Decision in the U.S.: Evidence of a Home-Country Firm Bandwagon Effect”. 19-04_magnier-watanabe.pdf