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Makito Takei

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Assistant Professor @TecdeMonterrey /Ph.D. at #UNT/International Relations/Audience Costs/Reputation. mtakei7.com

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EJIR @ejir.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"The empirical evidence of audience costs theory: a quasi-meta-analysis of case evidence based on Bayesian logic" by Shiping Tang has been published in EJIR and is now available online! You can read it here: t1p.de/g3lh8
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The empirical evidence of audience costs theory: a quasi-meta-analysis of case evidence based on Bayesian logic - Shiping Tang, 2026
James Fearon’s “Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International Disputes” is arguably one of the most influential articles in International Rel...
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph  showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 27/07/2026
Per @asanews.bsky.social email, after being cut off by NSF, ASA is ending the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.
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Dear Colleagues,
We are writing with important information about the ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG), which has been funded by the National Science Foundation for the past six years.
After learning that we will not be receiving our next funding increment from NSF, we are suspending the ASA DDRIG program and will not be opening the 2027 application cycle. This does not affect any student who currently holds an ASA DDRIG.
Over six application cycles, the ASA DDRIG program awarded 153 grants to students at 62 institutions. We would like to extend our sincerest thanks to all the reviewers who have made the program possible and to all the students, both applicants and grantees, whose work has inspired us. We are actively seeking other funding opportunities and will be back in touch with the sociology community if funding becomes available in the future.
In the meantime, we encourage you to write to your representatives in Congress to let them know how the cancellation and suspension of research funding impacts you, your students, and your colleagues. Please visit ASA Action Center to view our current action alerts on this matter. Feel free to customize your message if you received an ASA DDRIG or NSF DDRI and share how the program helped shape your trajectory.
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Journal of Global Security Studies @journalofgss.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Can the audience-costs model help explain dynamics in evolving asymmetric conflicts? Jayme R. Schlesinger and @arielzellman.bsky.social delve into this question, exploring the secondary effects of audience-cost signalling on rebel groups. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
On the left is the cover of The Journal of Global Security Studies. Along the bottom, the journal’s homepage, https://academic.oup.com/jogss, and Bluesky handle, @journalofgss.bsky.social, appear in white text on a navy-blue background. The main image depicts a crowd of people at a peaceful protest, holding a “Stop War” sign outdoors. It is overlaid with the article title and authors’ names: “Bigger Costs Than Audience Costs? Studying the Dynamics of Audience Costs Theory in Asymmetric Conflicts,” by Jayme R. Schlesinger and Ariel Zellman.
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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 11/06/2026
I mean, why not. My brand new book explores how US presidents use extra-governmental allies to manipulate the information space surrounding decisions to wage war. One of many tools for minimizing audience costs (though usually works to promote war). www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
"A vital, fascinating portrait of how US foreign policy is made" - Andrew Preston, author of Total Defense.

The President's Echo System: How Foreign Policy is Sold to Americans by Chad Levinson. A groundbreaking look at the outside groups that translate foreign policy agendas into public support (Harvard).
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
@dandrezner.bsky.social just wrote about this actually
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Donald Trump Does Not Like Audience Costs
But he's discovering that they might exist.
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Makito Takei @makitotakei.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
My paper was finally out in the Journal of Peace Research! It’s coauthored with Yasuki Kudo (UT Austin) and Sohei Shigemura (Kwansei Gakuin University), and reports the results of a list experiment about the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands issue in Japan. academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...
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Thomas J Wood @thomasjwood.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Political Science's academic job market having its worst post-Covid year -- almost 20% fewer jobs than at the same point in the previous cycle (which itself was bad!) Data scraped from APSA ejobs pdfs.
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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
@makitotakei.bsky.social, Chanki Moon & @hirotakaimada.bsky.social test if target publics see audience costs. US survey (N=1,404): people infer domestic punishment for backing down; credibility is similar for democracies and autocracies. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Audience costs in the eyes of an adversary - Makito Takei, Chanki Moon, Hirotaka Imada, 2026
Audience cost theory suggests that as a country increases its audience costs, it can send a credible threat to an opponent and prevail in an international crisi...
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Member Spotlight: Dr. Makito Takei, Tecnologico de Monterrey Dr. Makito Takei, Tecnologico de Monterrey APSA Member since 2017 Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Tecnologico de Monterrey How did you learn about APSA? When did you become a member of APSA, and…
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Member Spotlight: Dr. Makito Takei, Tecnologico de Monterrey
Dr. Makito Takei, Tecnologico de Monterrey APSA Member since 2017 Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Tecnologico de Monterrey How did you learn about APSA? When did you become a member of APSA, and what prompted you to join? I became a member of APSA in 2017, shortly after graduating from a master’s program at Waseda University in Japan.
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Makito Takei @makitotakei.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I'm now featured in the APSA Member Spotlight. As mentioned here, APSA is one of my favorite conferences, so I'm looking forward to the upcoming annual meeting in Vancouver! apsanet.org/membership/i...
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November 2025 - American Political Science Association (APSA)
Dr. Makito Takei Assistant Professor, Tecnologico de Monterrey Member since 2017 1. HOW DID YOU LEARN ABOUT APSA? WHEN DID YOU BECOME A MEMBER OF
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Journal of Experimental Political Science @jepsjournal.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Now out on FirstView: "International Reputation Costs and Assurances: A Case of East Asia" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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International Reputation Costs and Assurances: A Case of East Asia | Journal of Experimental Political Science | Cambridge Core
International Reputation Costs and Assurances: A Case of East Asia
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Makito Takei @makitotakei.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
My new article is out in @jepsjournal.bsky.social ! My survey experiment shows that violating commitments to peace undermines the credibility of future commitments, suggesting international reputation costs serve as a tying-hands signal in assurances. Open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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International Reputation Costs and Assurances: A Case of East Asia | Journal of Experimental Political Science | Cambridge Core
International Reputation Costs and Assurances: A Case of East Asia
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Brian J. Phillips @brianjphillips.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Data in the paper suggests that the U.S. lost billions of dollars during Trump 1 due to decreased foreign student enrollment. How much will be lost during Trump 2?
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