" When do voters tolerate criminal politicians?" Matteo Casiraghi and Tetsuya Matsubayashi [Paper]
"Liberal bias in survey research in an era of affective polarization." Yuki Yanai. [Paper]
"The emotional costs of coercive diplomacy: Public backlash against Chinese threats." With Graeme Davies, Daniel Keith, and Yihui Zhan. [Paper]
"The Divergence of Corporate and Mass Preferences over Immigration." With Rieko Kage and Frances Rosenbluth. [Paper]
"Measuring the unmeasurable: The politics of guesstimates." (2025). Review of International Political Economy. 33(1): 284-317. With Lukas Linsi, Francesco Giumelli, and Leonard Seabrooke. [Paper]
"Chinese State Media Persuades a Global Audience That the ``China Model" Is Superior: Evidence from a 19-Country Experiment." (2025). American Journal of Political Science. 69(3): 1029-1046. With With Daniel Mattingly, Trevor Incerti, Changwook Ju, Colin Moreshead, and Hikaru Yamagishi [Paper] [Featured in The Economist, and De Groene Amsterdammer] [SCCEI policy brief]. The article is ranked within the top 10% of most-viewed papers published by AJPS in 2024.
"Why Costly Rivalry Disputes Persist: A Paired Conjoint Experiment in Japan and South Korea." (2023). International Studies Quarterly. 66(4): 1-13. With Sijeong Lim. [Paper]
"Hawkish Partisans: How Political Parties Shape Nationalist Conflicts in China and Japan." (2021). British Journal of Political Science. 51(4): 1494-1515. With Trevor Incerti, Dan Mattingly, Frances Rosenbluth, and Jiahua Yue. [Paper]
"Multifaceted effects of globalisation on welfare attitudes: When winners and losers join forces." (2022). British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 24(1): 31-51. With Sijeong Lim. [Paper]
"Spurred by Threats or Afraid of War? A Survey Experiment on Costs of Conflict in Support for Military Action." (2019). Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy. 25(2): 1-13. With Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Atsushi Tago. [Paper]
"Seeing the Lexus for the Olive Trees? Public Opinion, Economic Interdependence, and Interstate Conflict." (2017). International Interactions. 43(3): 375-396. With Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Atsushi Tago. [Paper]
"The Microfoundations of Territorial Disputes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Japan." (2016). Conflict Management and Peace Science. 33(5): 516-538. [Paper]
"Establishing Good Governance in Fragile States Through Reconstruction Projects: Lessons from Iraq." (2013). Brookings Global Working Paper. 56: 1-23. With Masanori Yoshikawa. [Paper]
"How Gender Shapes Attitudes and Concerns about Immigration." (2025). Politics, Groups, and Identities. 13(3): 576-595. With Yoshiharu Kobayashi. [Paper]
"A taste for deprivation? Fish, chips and leaving the European Union?" (2025). Geoforum. 104236. With Steve Pickering. [Paper]
"Barking Up the Wrong Tree? Voter Bias and Female Underrepresentation in Japanese Politics." (2024). Social Science Japan Journal. 27(2): 199-219. With Sijeong Lim. [Paper]
"The Role of Public Broadcasting in Media Bias: Do People React Differently to Pro-government Bias in Public and Private Media?" (2023). Political Behavior. 45(3): 1219-1240. With Taka-aki Asano and Atsushi Tago. [Paper] [Supplementary document] [Blog post]
"Hidden Sources of Anti-Muslim Attitudes: Joint Effects of Interactions and Exposure to Out-group." (2023). Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. 8(2): 223-245. [Paper] [Replication materials]
"Voter Responses to Female Candidates' Voice Pitch: Experimental Evidence from Japan." (2023). Japanese Journal of Political Science. 24(1): 17-29. With Claire Bowern, Rieko Kage and Frances Rosenbluth. [Paper]
"The Fiscal Politics of Immigration: Expert Information and Concerns over Fiscal Drain." (2022). Political Communication. 39(6): 826-844. With Rieko Kage and Frances Rosenbluth. [Paper]
"Varieties of Public Attitudes towards Immigration." (2022). Political Research Quarterly. 75(1): 216-230. With Rieko Kage and Frances Rosenbluth. [Paper]
"The Paradoxical Effect of Welfare Knowledge: Unveiling Income Cleavage over Welfare Politics in South Korea" (2022). International Political Science Review. 43(1): 67-84. With Sijeong Lim. [Paper]
"Distributional Concerns and Public Opinion: EV Subsidies in the U.S. and Japan." (2022). Energy Policy. 164: 112883. With Sijeong Lim, Nives Dolsak, and Aseem Prakash. [Paper] [Opinion article at The Regulatory Review (listed among the top essays)]
"Sexual Harassment of Women Leadership." (2020). Dædalus. 149(1): 180-197. With Olle Folke, Johanna Rickne, and Yasuka Tateishi. [Paper] (Featured in several media outlets such as Forbes, Der Spiegel, and AD).
"Promoting Social Acceptance of Energy Transition: Beyond Western Societies." (2020). Socio-economic Review. 18(1). With Sijeong Lim. [Paper]
"The Impact of Municipal Mergers on Local Public Spending: Evidence from Remote-Sensing Data." (2020). Journal of East Asian Studies. 20(2): 243-266. With Steve Pickering and Kyohei Yamada. [Paper] (featured in Editor's pick).
"Labor Markets and Cultural Values: Evidence from Japanese and American Views about Caregiving Immigrants." (2019). Economics & Politics. 31(3): 428-464. With Margaret E. Peters, Rieko Kage, and Frances Rosenbluth. [Paper]
"Work Disincentive Perception and Welfare State Attitudes: Survey Experiment in South Korea." (2019). Governance. 32(3): 457-473. With Sijeong Lim. [Paper]
"What Explains Low Female Political Representation? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Japan." (2019). Politics & Gender. 15(2): 285-309. With Rieko Kage and Frances Rosenbluth. [Paper]. The article is included in a meta analysis by Schwarz and Coppock (2022).
"Does taxation lose its role in contemporary democratisation? State revenue production revisited in the third wave of democratisation." (2019). European Journal of Political Research. 58(1): 184-208. With Junko Kato. [Paper]
"Human Development without Democratic Accountability: How Regressive Taxation Contributes to Human Development through State Capacity." (2018). Japanese Journal of Political Science. 19(3): 429-443. With Junko Kato. [Paper]
"Aging Gracefully? Why Old Autocrats Hold Competitive Elections." (2018). Asian Journal of Comparative Politics. 3(1): 81-102. [Paper]
"Constraining the Samurai: Rebellion and Taxation in Early Modern Japan." (2017). International Studies Quarterly. 61(3): 746-747. With Abbey Steele and Christopher Paik. [Paper]
"Retirement Planning for Dictators: What Happens to Outgoing Dictators?" (2016). International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. 16(1): 1-25. [Paper]