Research Activities
Research Projects
Sub-national Legislative Election Under Authoritarian Regime (2019_2_40_004)
Outline
To date, scholars of authoritarianism have paid much attention to the use of democratic institutions in dictatorships to mitigate threats from both internal and external ruling elites, to co-opt and divide opposition, and to solve commitment problems among the ruling elite. However, there have been no in-depth studies of legislative election at sub-national levels in authoritarian regimes. This research projects aims to reveal the role and function of sub-national legislative elections under authoritarian regimes and how they relate to the ruler/ruling party. We shine a light on the one-party systems of: China, Vietnam, and Laos, and on the one-party dominant systems of: Cambodia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Mozambique, and Mexico, as case studies. Comparing sub-national legislative elections between two-party systems, we will analyse the similarities and differences of the role and function, as well as the cause leading to the differences.
Period
April 2019 - March 2021
Members of the Research Project
| [ Organizer ] | Yamada Norihiko |
| [ Co-researcher ] | Ishizuka Futaba |
| [ Co-researcher ] | Aminaka Akiyo |
| [ Co-researcher ] | Toyoda Shin |
| [ Co-researcher ] | Yamada Hiroshi (Niigata University of International and Information Studies Associate Professor) |
| [ Co-researcher ] | Nakaoka Mari (Tokiwa University Associate Professor) |
| [ Co-researcher ] | Tachibana Yu (Hokkaido University Faculty of Letter Researcher) |
| [ Co-researcher ] | Aburamoto Mari (Hosei University Associate Professor) |
Publications
- Book – in Japanese –