{"id":11757,"date":"2026-06-02T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/?p=11757"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:01:51","slug":"%ef%bc%91%ef%bc%92%e6%9c%88%ef%bc%92%ef%bc%90%e6%97%a5%e7%8f%be%e6%94%bf%e7%a0%94%e3%82%bb%e3%83%9f%e3%83%8a%e3%83%bc%ef%bc%88%e5%a0%80%e4%ba%95%e4%ba%ae%e5%85%88%e7%94%9f%ef%bc%89%e3%81%ae-12-2-2-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/other-en\/2026\/06\/02\/11757\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEconomic Precarity and Populism in East Asia\u201d by Prof. Samson Yuen (Hong Kong Baptist University), July 1, 17:00."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong Baptist University<\/span>\u306e<\/span>Samson Yuen<\/span><\/a>\u51c6\u6559\u6388<\/span>\u3092\u304a\u8fce\u3048\u3057\u3001\u201c<\/span>Economic Precarity and Populism in East Asia<\/span>\u201d\u3068\u984c\u3057\u3066\u5b9f\u8a3c\u653f\u6cbb\u5b66\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30d7\u3092\u958b\u50ac\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002
\n<\/span>\u3069\u306a\u305f\u3067\u3082\u3054\u53c2\u52a0\u3044\u305f\u3060\u3051\u307e\u3059\u3002\u4e8b\u524d\u767b\u9332\u306f\u4e0d\u8981\u3067\u3059\u3002\u305c\u3072\u3054\u53c2\u52a0\u4e0b\u3055\u3044\u3002<\/span>
\n<\/span>We\u00a0are\u00a0very pleased\u00a0to host<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Prof<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Samson Yuen<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(<\/span>Hong Kong Baptist University<\/span>)\u00a0<\/span>for a special talk with the title<\/span>\u00a0\u201c<\/span>Economic Precarity and Populism in East Asia<\/span>\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Pre-registration is not\u00a0required<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>We look forward to your participation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u65e5\u6642\uff1a<\/strong>2026\u5e747\u67081\u65e5\uff08\u6c34\uff0917\u6642\u301c18\u664240\u5206
\nDate and Time:\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday,\u00a0July 1,\u00a02026,\u00a017:00-18:40<\/p>\n

\u5834\u6240\uff1a<\/strong>3\u53f7\u9928908
\nVenue<\/strong>\uff1aRoom\u00a0908,\u00a0Building\u00a03, Waseda Campus<\/a>,\u00a0Waseda\u00a0University<\/p>\n

\u8a00\u8a9eLanguage\uff1a<\/strong>\u82f1\u8a9eEnglish<\/p>\n

\u8981\u65e8Abstract\uff1a<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Economic precarity \u2013 a condition of unstable or insecure economic life \u2013 is one of the most cited drivers of populist politics across developed nations. Yet, its relevance to East Asia \u2013 a region widely regarded as resistant to populism thus far \u2013\u00a0remains\u00a0underexplored. This seminar explores whether precarity drives populist support in East Asian polities, and through what mechanism. Drawing on original cross-national survey data from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea, we find that precarity does increase populist thinking among respondents who are currently employed. This is not simply because precarious citizens lose faith in institutions or grow more aware of inequality. Instead, the effect is\u00a0cognitively-driven: insecurity leads them to perceive social life as a competition where others\u2019 gains come at their expense, which in\u00a0turns\u00a0extends to how they view politics. Across the four cases, it is this sense of living in a zero-sum world of winners and losers \u2013 more than generalized political or economic grievances \u2013 that drives populism. The findings raise concern over the downstream effects of economic precarity in East Asia. If\u00a0labour\u00a0markets grow more insecure in the age of automation and AI, the region’s presumed immunity to populism may prove difficult to sustain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact\uff1a<\/span><\/b>\u5c0f\u6797\u54f2\u90ce\uff08\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\uff09\u00a0<\/span>Tetsuro Kobayashi<\/span>\u00a0(<\/span>Waseda\u00a0University)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>tkobayas@waseda.jp<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong Baptist University\u306eSamson Yuen\u51c6\u6559\u6388\u3092\u304a\u8fce\u3048\u3057\u3001\u201cEconomic Precarity and Populism in East Asia\u201d\u3068\u984c\u3057\u3066\u5b9f\u8a3c\u653f\u6cbb\u5b66\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,105],"tags":[99,102,18,101],"class_list":["post-11757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-en","category-other","tag-events-en","tag-general-en","tag-events","tag-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11761,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757\/revisions\/11761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}