POLITICAL ECONOMY of INSTITUTIONS and EXPECTATIONS I
Prospectus
Humans have created and changed political and economic institutions in various ways. How can we account for such institutional creation and institutional change? This is one of the central issues in social sciences and many researchers have studied on this issue. Recent theoretical studies reveal that sustainability of institutions should be supported by people's collective psychological properties such as expectation of others' behavior. Our project.GLOPE II.would focus on the dynamic process between such expectation and institutional change. This project started one year ago, but some studies already have fruitful achievements. In this conference, young researchers from political science, economics, psychology, and regional study will present their recent contributions based on the above approach. Combining theoretical, mathematical, experimental, and historical method, they will give insightful suggestions to analyze the process of political economic institutional changes.
As the Keynote speaker, Professor Aiji Tanaka, who is also the leader of GLOPE II, will present the cutting edge of election survey study and analysis of the 2009 lower house election in Japan.
12:00-12:10 | Opening Remarks: Aiji Tanaka (Waseda University) |
12:20-13:50 | Session 1: Choice of Political Systems |
Arata Yamazaki (Waseda University)
Min Shu (Waseda University)
Mattias Burell (Uppsala University) |
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14:00-15:00 | Keynote Speech |
Aiji Tanaka (Waseda University) |
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15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:30-17:00 | Session 2: Stability of Political Economic Institutions |
Yasuhiro Arai (Hitotsubashi University)
Toshihiro Tsuchihashi (Hitotsubashi University)
Ryota Iijima (University of Tokyo) |
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17:10-18:40 | Session 3: Experiments in Political Economy |
Yuuko Morimoto (Kyoto University)
Ai Takeuchi (Waseda University)
Atsushi Osaki (Waseda University) |
10:30-12:00 | Session 4: Axiomatic Analysis of Political Economic Institutions |
Takumi Kongo (JSPS/Waseda University)
Kohei Kamaga (Waseda University)
Takashi Kojima (Waseda University) |
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13:30-15:00 | Session 5: Analysis of European Political Systems |
Ryo Nakai (Waseda University)
Feng Cunwan (Wuhan University)
Luigi Curini (University of Milan) |
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15:15-17:15 | Session 6: Dynamics of Political and Economic Institutions |
Kazumichi Uchida (Keio University)
Fang Wei (Waseda University)
Willy Jou (University of California, Irvine)
Zheng Wei (Nankai University) |
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17:15-17:25 | Closing Remarks: Shiro Yabushita (Waseda University) |