{"id":4087,"date":"2018-10-18T09:03:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T00:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2018-10-18T09:03:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T00:03:45","slug":"we-spice2018%ef%bc%9awaseda-essex-scientific-polisci-ir-collaboration-and-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2018\/10\/18\/4087\/","title":{"rendered":"WE-SPICE2018\uff1aWaseda-Essex Scientific PoliSci\/IR Collaboration and Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 21 and 22, with generous support from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsps.go.jp\/english\/\">the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science<\/a> (JSPS, bilateral programs), Egusa Foundation for International Cooperation in the Social Sciences and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/eape\/en\/\">Waseda Top Global University Project\u2019s Center for the Positive\/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy<\/a>, 5 professors (Daina Chiba, Han Dorussen, Alejandro Quiroz Flores, Marius V Radean, and Gina Yannitell Reinhardt) from the University of Essex visited campus for the start-up session of the Waseda-Essex Scientific PoliSci\/IR Collaboration and Exchange (WE-SPICE) initiative.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4087 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-through-2023\/2018\/10\/17\/4078\/attachment\/dsc00804\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC00804-360x270.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC00804-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC00804-610x458.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC00804-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC00804-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC00804-720x540.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-through-2023\/2018\/10\/17\/4078\/attachment\/dsc007292\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC007292-360x270.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC007292-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC007292-610x458.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC007292-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC007292-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC007292-720x540.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>There were 17 papers on various topics presented in the two-day workshop and the topics of the papers varied widely from comparative politics, international relations and to political methodology. The research, such as empirical analysis of voting acquisition, quantitative text analysis of documents issued by political parties, experimental research on fighter plane scrambles, econometric analysis using new data over UN PKO, prediction on international conflicts, and text analysis of Russian propaganda, all used advanced empirical methods. The title of the papers can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WE_Spice2018Schedule.pdf\">here<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-4082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/FotoJet2-360x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/FotoJet2-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/FotoJet2-720x540.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In March 2019, there will be another workshop as part of the WE-SPICE initiative. There are more than 10 Japanese scholars who will join the event, exchange ideas and seek chance for research collaboration. The Center for the Positive\/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy hopes to continue this initiative as a long term commitment to promote UK-Japan joint research in the field of Political Science and International Relations.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4083 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC00691-1-610x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC00691-1-610x236.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC00691-1-768x297.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC00691-1-940x363.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 21 and 22, with generous support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, bilat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[99,111],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en","tag-en-eape","tag-report-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}