PROGRAM 

Session 1 Democratic Backsliding and Polarization 9:00-10:45

• 1-1 Defeating Executive Aggrandizers: Backlash to Backsliding in Asia and Latin America

Marisa Kellam (Waseda U), Kana Inata (Tokyo Metropolitan U), Aya Watanabe (IDE-JETRO)

• 1-2 Political Polarization and Anti-Democratic Attitudes in Asia

Hirofumi Miwa (Gakushuin U), Ikuma Ogura (Hitotsubashi U), Tetsuro Kobayashi (Waseda U), Han Il Chang (Kookmin U), Yi-ting Wang (National Cheng Kung U), Sherly Haristya (LSPR Institute of Communication and Business), Ling Liu (Waseda U), Yuko Kasuya (Keio U)

• 1-3 Challenging Representative Democracy: Technocratic and Populist Attitudes across Ideological Divides in Nine Western Democracies

Daniele Caramani (University of Zurich and European University Institute)

Session 2 Gender and Polarization 11:00-12:45

• 2-1 Gender Gap in Affective Polarization in East Asian Democracies

Moohyung Cho (Ewha Womans University)

• 2-2 Locked in a Polarized State? Women’s Representation and Affective Polarization

Hyun Su Kim and Hyeok Yong Kwon (Korea U)

• 2-3 Same-Sex Marriage in Japan: Purely a Matter of Partisanship?

Antonio Benasaglio Berlucchi (Meiji U) and Robert Nordstrom (Waseda U)

Session 3 Disinformation and Polarization 14:00-15:45

• 3-1 Political Polarization, Disinformation, and Correcting Misperception

Shinnosuke Kikuchi (UCSD), Daiki Kishishita (Hitotsubashi U), Yesola Kwon (Sungkyunkwan U), Yuko Kasuya (Keio U)

• 3-2 Fighting Fake News with Peer Feedback: Theory and Experiment

Yasushi Asako (Waseda U), Yoshio Kamijo (Waseda U), Daiki Kishishita (Hitotsubashi U), Masayuki Odora (Waseda U)

• 3-3 How Foreign Disinformation Strategies Shape Democracy Attitudes and Polarization

Joe Wright (Penn State U), YiMin Huang (Penn State U), Wonjun Song (Hanyang University)

Session 4 Causes and Consequences of Polarization 16:00-17:45

• 4-1 Enemy at the #GamerGate: How Participation Forges Ideological Identity in an Online Social Movement

Junmo Song (Ewha Womans University)

• 4-2 Enemies Within? Affective Polarization and the Erosion of Civic Trust

Nick Lin (Academia Sinica) and Greg Sheen (Academia Sinica)　

• 4-3 Measuring Consistency in Politicians’ Statements

Ken Kato (VETA), Yasutomo Kimura (Otaru University of Commerce), Yuki Mikiya (Keio University), Kota Mori (Japan Data Science Consortium), Mitsuo Yoshida (Tsukuba University), Yuko Kasuya (Keio U)

Closing 17:45-18:00