Graduate School of Political ScienceWaseda University

In consideration of the travel and schedules of those who are thinking of taking the entrance examination for our graduate school from all over the world, we have decided to introduce our school through this website not face-to-face meetings. Thank you for your understanding.

If you have any questions about admissions or post-enrolment matters, please feel free to contact the Admissions Office of the Graduate School of Political Science at [email protected]. If you wish to contact the faculty member you wish to supervise, you can check FAQ 2-6 and FAQ 1-1 and contact them directly. Alternatively, if you have checked the academic papers written by the faculty members as a corresponding author in the past and already know his/her email address, you can contact him/her directly at that address.

Please note that some faculty members may be on sabbatical leave for research purposes at certain times of the year. Therefore, it is not always possible to receive guidance from the faculty members of your choice at the time of enrolment you are considering, so please make sure to check the admissions guidelines for the relevant enrolment period to see which faculty members are actually available.

Introduction of the Graduate School of Political Science

1. About the Political Science Course

2. Course Start Dates

3. FAQ

4. Messages from Current Students (Japanese Only)

Introducing the contents of the research and the usual weekly schedule.
– Political Science Course- 1st year at Doctoral Program

*At the Waseda University Graduate School of Political Science, beginning with the 2023 academic year, the admission to the Japanese-language degree program in the Political Science and Global Public Policy Courses is in April only, while admission to the English-language degree program in the Political Science Course is in September only. This applies for the admission to the Doctoral program in Political Science Course and Global Public Policy Course as well which will be in April only for the Japanese-language degree program and in September only for the English-language degree program. For more details, please refer to ‘Course Start Dates’.

4. Information on research meetings and events that can be attended by people outside the Waseda University

* Please kindly note that it may be limited to on-campus students depending on the event. 

AY2022

（Political Science Course）

• Combining Network Analysis and Text Analysis: Mapping Japanese Twitter Political Discourse on Constitutional Reform and Economic Policy
• 政治的リベラリズムにおける依存へのケア

AY2021

（Political Science Course）

• Coercive Threats without Corresponding Assurances
• 先制攻撃と拒否的抑止 ――抑止達成のメカニズムとコミットメント問題

AY2020

（Political Science Course）

• Challenging the Minimal State:A Critique of the Logical Implications of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia
• The Politics of Student Debt:Social Movements, Opposition Parties, and Agenda Setting

AY2019

（Political Science Course）

• ミサイルが飛ぶと女性候補者は評価されない？――ジェンダーステレオタイプと投票行動

AY2018

（Political Science Course）

• Courting Independence:Why and when judges annul elections in flawed democracies
•  ベトナム系アメリカ人の文化維持活動――ホスト社会による承認を中心に

AY2017

（Political Science Course）

• SINGLE MOTHERS AND POLITICS IN JAPAN
•  Buying Votes with Rents: The Politics of Economic Populism and Clientelism in Natural Resource Dependent Democracies

AY2016

（Political Science Course）

• The Comparison between the Sunflower Movement and the Umbrella Revolution From Supporting Rate to Supporting Structure
• Emotion Expressions in Public Deliberation: Construction and Reconstruction of the Fairness of Democratic Procedures