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Yukio Maeda

Division Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies
Research Fields Political Communication
E-mail q-ymaedag.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Homepage https://researchmap.jp/PublicOpinionYmaeda?lang=en

Teaching and Research Appointments

March 2006 Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
April 2006 − March 2011 Associate Professor, Inter-Faculty Initiative in Information Studies, Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
April 2011 − March 2014 Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
April 2014 − March 2016 Associate Professor, Inter-Faculty Initiative in Information Studies, Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
April 2016 − March 2018 Professor, Inter-Faculty Initiative in Information Studies, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
April 2018 − March 2019 Professor, Inter-Faculty Initiative in Information Studies, Adjunct Professor, The University of Tokyo
April 2019 − present Professor, Inter-Faculty Initiative in Information Studies, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo

Topics of Research

1Cabinet Approval
2Party Politics in Japan
3Gender, Public Opinion, and Political Participation
4Social Science Data Preservation and Dissemination

Selected Publications

  • “External Constraints on Female Political Participation”, Japanese Journal of Political Science, 6(3): pp.345-373.
  • “The 2005 General Election and Public Opinion”, Social Science Japan, 35: pp.19-22, October 2006.
  • “The change of government and public opinion: September 2005 to August 2009”, Social Science Japan, No.42, March, 2010, pp.6-11.
  • “The Development of DPJ Partisanship: From a Fraction to a Majority (and Back Again?)”. K. E. Kushida and P. Y. Lipscy (eds.) Japan under the DPJ: the Politics of Transition and Governance. Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; August 2013, pp. 191-218.
  • “The Abe Cabinet and Public Opinion - How Abe Won Re-Election by Narrowing Public Debate,” R. J. Pekkanen, S. R. Reed and E. Scheiner (eds), Japan Decides 2014, Palgrave Macmillan, December 2015, pp. 89-102.
  • “Public Opinion and the Abe Cabinet: Alternating Valence and Position Issues,” Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, Ethan Scheiner and Daniel M. Smith (eds), Japan Decides 2017. Palgrave Macmillan, June 2018, pp 127-147.
  • “Changes in Public Opinion Polling: How Newspaper Polls Gained Political Clout", Social Science Japan Journal, No. 22. Issue 2. Summer 2019, Pages 261-270.
  • “Sharing Social Science Data in Japan: JSPS’s Plan for a Federated Data Catalog.” The Digital Transformation: Implications for the Social Sciences and the Humanities, Harald Kümmerle and Franz Waldenberger (eds), Tokyo: German Institute for Japanese Studies, November 2020, 27-31.
  • “The LDP under Abe.” (Co-authored with Steven R. Reed) Phillip Y. Lipscy and Takeo Hoshi (eds.) The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, February 2021, 87-108.
  • “The Effect of Changing Political Contexts on Public Opinion in Japan, 1945–2020.” Robert J. Pekkanen and Saadia M. Pekkanen (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics，April 2021，Oxford University Press， pp.263-279．
  • "Public Opinion and COVID-19"，Robert J. Pekkanen，Steven R. Reed，and Daniel M. Smith (eds.)，Japan Decides 2021: the Japaese General Election，Palgrave Macmillan，December 2022，pp. 167-182.

Educational Activities

Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo Political Science (Special Study) (Public Opinion and Voting Behavior)
Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo Research Methodology in Cultural and Human Information Studies II
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