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Masaaki Higashijima

@mhigashi.bsky.social
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Political Scientist, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo | comparative political economy, autocracy, regime change, Central Asia | The Dictator’s Dilemma at the Ballot Box, UMP | Website: masaakihigashijima.com

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Yuki Shiraito @ykshrt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The accepted version of "Tutelary Power and Autocratic Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence from Kazakhstan's Diarchy" with @mhigashi.bsky.social is now available @thejop.bsky.social! See also shiraito.github.io/research/pag... for SI and code/data. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Tutelary Power and Autocratic Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence from Kazakhstan's Diarchy | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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Adrian Del Rio @adridelrio.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
When and why do some elite divisions in authoritarian governments improve democratization prospects and others dont? @mhigashi.bsky.social & I provide one answer in a new article in @cpsjournal.bsky.social Comparativesky Dictatorsky CivMilSky Polisky #openaccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Yuki Shiraito @ykshrt.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
"Tutelary Power and Autocratic Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence from Kazakhstan’s Tutelage" with @mhigashi.bsky.social has been conditionally accepted at the JOP! We examine whether a de fact guardian boosts popular support for a de jure autocratic leader. shiraito.github.io/research/pag...
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Masaaki Higashijima and Yuki Shiraito. “Tutelary Power and Autocratic Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence from Kazakhstan’s Tutelage.” The Journal of Politics (Conditionally accepted).
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
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Masaaki Higashijima @mhigashi.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
Paul Schuler and I would like to invite you to submit a proposal for a mini-conference on "Un-Democratic Politics" in Seattle as part of the WPSA annual meeting on April 17-19, 2025. If interested, please send a title and abstract here: www.dropbox.com/request/bMva...) by Monday, November 7. (1/5)
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Masaaki Higashijima @mhigashi.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
New article with Yujin Woo has been published at International Studies Quarterly! The paper explore the relationships between political regimes and refugee movements, finding that refugees tend to be clustered into mixed regimes. Open-access and available from here: academic.oup.com/isq/article-...
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Masaaki Higashijima @mhigashi.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
My new paper with Hidekuni Washida has been published by EPSR! It identifies two types of clientelism — relational and single-shot — by using the V-Party dataset and conducts exploratory analyses on the correlates of clientelism. Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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