実証政治学ワークショップのご案内（Workshop Announcement: April 14, 17:40-）

ブリュッセル自由大学のSebastien Rojon氏をお迎えし、“Citizens’ Preferences for Who Should Govern: Comparing the Views of European and Asian Citizens”と題してワークショップを開催します。 どなたでもご参加いただけます。事前登録は不要です。ぜひご参加下さい。
We are very pleased to host Postdoctoral researcher Sebastien Rojon (Université Libre de Bruxelles) for a special talk with the title “Citizens’ Preferences for Who Should Govern: Comparing the Views of European and Asian Citizens”.  Pre-registration is not required. We look forward to your participation.

日時：2026年4月14日（火）17:40 pm – 18:40 pm
Date and Time: Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 17:40 pm – 18:40 pm

場所：3号館406
Venue：Room 406, Building 3, Waseda Campus, Waseda University

言語Language：英語 English

要旨Abstract：
In response to increasing levels of dissatisfaction with and disengagement from representative democracy among citizens in established democracies, a large body of research, mainly focused on Europe, has examined support for alternative models of governance. Some studies document widespread support for participatory models in which citizens are directly involved in decision-making. Others suggest that certain citizens prefer technocratic models that empower independent experts. Still others raise concerns that citizens are becoming more favorable toward authoritarian forms of government. However, research on Asia and other regions of the world remains largely limited to examining support for a broadly defined “democratic political system,” thereby underestimating the complexity of citizens’ preferences regarding who should govern. This postdoctoral project consists of several papers that compare the levels and drivers of support for participatory, technocratic, and authoritarian alternatives to representative democracy among citizens in European and Asian countries. The project tests several theoretical explanations for citizens’ governance preferences, including political disaffection, cognitive mobilization, “Asian values,” and rationalist/instrumentalist perspectives. The analysis is based on an original survey conducated in the six largest European countries and four Asian countries selected to represent a diversity of political regime types: Japan, India, Thailand, and Malaysia.

Contact:： 日野愛郎（早稲田大学） Airo Hino (Waseda University)  [email protected]