How Politicians and Voters Behaved under COVID-19: Lessons from Japan
About this Event
Date: August 26th, 2026
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Location: Room 120, UBC C.K. Choi Building
Talk Abstract:
In this workshop, Professor Kohno will examine how COVID-19 affected the political behavior of Japanese politicians and ordinary voters. Specifically, based on his own findings, he will demonstrate how the spread of the pandemic changed the frequency of prefectural governors’ press conferences over time, how the share/presence of incumbent politicians belonging to the governing parties, the Liberal Democratic Party and Komei Party, influenced the varying progress of vaccination rollouts across regions, and how the virus-related casualties affected the results of two national elections in 2021 and 2022.
Professor Masaru Kohno teaches Japanese politics and international relations at Waseda University in Tokyo. His articles appeared in top journals, such as World Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Review of International Organizations, and World Development. He is also the author of Japan’s Postwar Party Politics (Princeton University Press 1997) and Seido [Institutions] (University of Tokyo Press 2002), and Seiji o Kagaku Suru Koto wa Kano-ka [Is It Possible to Study Politics Scientifically?] (Chuo Koron Shin-sha, 2018).
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