実証政治学ワークショップのご案内（Workshop Announcement: May 8th, 17:00-）

Deakin UniversityのIhsan Yilmaz教授をお迎えし、“Digital Civilisational Populism and Diaspora Mobilisation: Evidence from Indian and Turkish Communities in Australia” 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 Prof. Ihsan Yilmaz (Deakin University) for a special talk with the title “Digital Civilisational Populism and Diaspora Mobilisation: Evidence from Indian and Turkish Communities in Australia”.  Pre-registration is not required. We look forward to your participation.

日時：2026年5月8日（金）17:00-18:40
Date and Time: Friday, May 8th, 2026, 17:00-18:40

場所：3号館909
Venue：Room 909, Building 3, Waseda Campus, Waseda University

言語Language：英語English

要旨Abstract：
Governments increasingly use digital media to reach, organise, and mobilise diaspora communities beyond their borders. This paper examines how Turkey’s AKP and India’s BJP use pro-government political media and civilisational populist narratives to shape political engagement among Turkish and Indian diasporas in Australia. These narratives often frame homeland politics through religious, cultural, and national struggle, positioning supporters against opponents and contributing to polarisation within diaspora communities.
Using survey data collected between May 2024 and October 2025, the study estimates the relationship between pro-government political media consumption and online and offline collective action. Methodologically, it employs inverse-probability weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA) to approximate causal effects under standard observational-data assumptions. The findings show that higher exposure to pro-government political media is associated with increased collective action overall, with stronger effects for online mobilisation than offline participation. The results also reveal important differences between supporters and opponents of populist governments. Opponents show consistent increases in both online and offline mobilisation as exposure rises, while supporters’ mobilisation is more concentrated online and becomes significant mainly at moderate-to-high levels of media consumption.
The paper contributes to debates on digital authoritarianism, state transnationalism, civilisational populism, and diaspora politics by showing how homeland political media can shape political behaviour in host-country settings. It also highlights the implications of transnational digital mobilisation for social cohesion, democratic resilience, and intra-diaspora relations in multicultural societies such as Australia.

Contact: 小林哲郎（早稲田大学） Tetsuro Kobayashi (Waseda University)  [email protected]