2021 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Comparative Political Economy of Modern and Historical Autocracies: Meiji Japan and Bey ond
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21F21008
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
東島 雅昌 東北大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (10756349)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MITCHELL AUSTIN 東北大学, 情報科学研究科, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-09-28 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | autocracy / fiscal policy |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This report is for the progress from 8/20/2021 when the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship began until the end of the 2021 Academic year. In this time, we have begun and expanded the data collection, developed game theory to explain arguments, and planned our first research papers. We will complete the first stage of data collection and plan to present our first research paper at a conference in Tokyo this Summer. Mitchell also began a preliminary data collection before the Fellowship started, which enabled immediate progress on the project when he arrived at Tohoku University. A paper from that preliminary research was conditionally accepted at a journal in November, 2021. Mitchell also published and presented multiple research projects that he had begun before the Fellowship.
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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
When the JSPS Fellowship started in late August of 2021 we immediately began theory building while also collecting data. We assigned a research assistant in early September, 2021, to collect primary-source archival data from digitized government budget documents in the late 19th century. In January, we found an important secondary source of public budget data that allows us to substantially, and efficiently, expand our data collection. We have developed approximately 10-15 ideas for research papers utilizing the data we are collecting, with our first priority being the papers proposed in the JSPS application. We developed a formal model for the theoretical component of the project, and we have received supportive feedback from Professor Dao-Zhi Zeng (Tohoku University) on the model.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The expansion of our data greatly improves our prospects for writing multiple, high profile research papers. We have hired five research assistants for the 2022 school year to implement the data collection.The collection of our data on government expenditures will be completed during the Spring Semester, which will enable us to produce a draft first research paper by the Summer. We are applying to present this project in July 2022 at the Japanese Society for Quantitative Political Science Summer Meeting. Once our initial data collection is completed this Spring, we will instruct our research assistants to collect additional supplementary data that will allow us to build on our first projects. We will intensively write multiple papers beginning in the Summer and Fall.
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