2018 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
The dynamics of legitimacy; an experimental and comparative historical approach
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18F18731
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| Research Institution | Hitotsubashi University |
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Principal Investigator |
後藤 玲子 一橋大学, 経済研究所, 教授 (70272771)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SCHOYEN OIVIND 一橋大学, 経済研究所, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-10-12 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | Legitimacy / Paternalism / Conflict / Fairness views / Experimental economics / Theoretical economics |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Mainly three projects were involved in FY2018. Two theories were developed for the foundations of war; one focused on preferences for conflict and one on incentives for conflict. Further, a new version of "What limits the powerful?" which is a theory of optimal coercion use in society, was written with substantial parts added. This paper was submitted to the Journal of Comparative Economics where it is currently under review. Two articles "What limits the powerful?" and "Moral previously favored are always safer" were presented at the Cultural Evolution Society in Tempe, Arizona, USA. The former was also presented at the Hitotsubashi IER Economic History workshop and "Suspicious minds and views of fairness" at the HIAS workshop, both in Tokyo, Japan. Presentation on the joint project with Stanford University "A theory of moral authority" was made at the Conference of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture in Boston, USA. "Competing Authorities" was presented at the Shiga Conference for Conflict and one of the classes in Hitotsubashi University. Finally, participation at the STS Forum Conference in Kyoto provided an interesting insight to the research.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The research has been conducted with high energy and high inspiration, while enjoying the stay in Japan. There was high expectations for how much research could be done and thus the progress so far is as planned. Several projects have started; "A Theory of Moral Authority" with a professor from Stanford University, "Reputation Cycles: Fluctuating ritual spending in Maya communities" with a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University, and a project on the environmental causes of conflict with a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. All these co-authors were gained by attending various conferences. Having these co-authors with their varied background enables linking different types of literature to produce new insights, to progress our understanding.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In 2019, the design of experiment on utilization (or exploitation) of ethnic and religious conflicts will be finalized which will then preferably be conducted online on Amazon MTurk. The programming and data analysis will be conducted at the FAIR Center. Further, a game theoretic paper that seek to understand how leaders use ethnic and religious conflicts to gain influence will be written. These works will hopefully be presented at the 2019 North American ESA Meeting held at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles to get feedback from wide circle of researchers. This conference will be an important venue to gain feedback on the ongoing research and to communicate the results so far achieved.
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