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Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo

Researcher number: 80768896
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9982-4784
J-GLOBAL ID: 202101018714975048
researchmap Member ID: R000030958

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Politics /

Research History

Mar, 2019 - Present

Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
Jun, 2015 - Mar, 2018

Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
Aug, 2008 - May, 2015

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
Aug, 2006 - Jul, 2008

Lecturer, Division of International, Comparative, and Area Studies, Stanford University
Aug, 2005 - Jul, 2006

Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Education

Sep, 1999 - Jul, 2005

Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Sep, 1995 - Jun, 1999

School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Papers

Mobile health technology as a solution to self-control problems: The behavioral impact of COVID-19 contact tracing apps in Japan

Masahiro Shoji, Susumu Cato, Asei Ito, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Hiroto Katsumata, Kenneth Mori McElwain

Social Science & Medicine, 306 115142-115142, Aug, 2022
Vaccination and altruism under the COVID-19 pandemic

Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, Kenneth Mori McElwain, Masahiro Shoji

Public Health in Practice, 3 100225-100225, Jun, 2022
Variations in Early-Stage Responses to Pandemics: Survey Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan.

Masahiro Shoji, Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Kenneth Mori McElwain

Economics of disasters and climate change, 1-24, Nov 29, 2021
Prosociality and the Uptake of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Survey Analysis of Intergenerational Differences in Japan

Masahiro Shoji, Asei Ito, Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Hiroto Katsumata, Kenneth Mori McElwain

JMIR MHEALTH AND UHEALTH, 9(8), Aug, 2021
The proposer or the proposal? An experimental analysis of constitutional beliefs

Kenneth Mori McElwain, Shusei Eshima, Christian G. Winkler

JAPANESE JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 22(1) 15-39, Mar, 2021
The bright and dark sides of social media usage during the COVID-19 pandemic: Survey evidence from Japan

Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, Kenneth Mori McElwain, Masahiro Shoji

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, 54, Feb, 2021
Social media infodemics and social distancing under the COVID-19 pandemic: public good provisions under uncertainty

Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, Kenneth Mori McElwain, Masahiro Shoji

GLOBAL HEALTH ACTION, 14(1), Jan, 2021
When candidates are more polarised than voters: constitutional revision in Japan

Kenneth Mori McElwain

EUROPEAN POLITICAL SCIENCE, 19(4) 528-539, Dec, 2020
Who tolerates tax increases? Age and gender in the raising of Japanese consumption taxes

Kenneth Mori McElwain, Gregory W. Noble

Journal of Social Science, 67(2) 75-96, 2016 Corresponding author
Inequality or Growth? : Subjective Economic Beliefs and Government Approval in Japan

Kenneth Mori McElwain

Leviathan, 57 72-95, 2015 Lead author
The Nationalization of Japanese Elections

Kenneth Mori McElwain

JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES, 12(3) 323-350, Sep, 2012
Party Democratization and the Salience of Party Leaders

Kenneth Mori McElwain, Michio Umeda

Journal of Social Science, 62(1) 173-193, 2011 Corresponding author
Manipulating electoral rules to manufacture single-party dominance

Kenneth Mori McElwain

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 52(1) 32-47, Jan, 2008

Books and Other Publications

Political change in Japan : electoral behavior, party realignment, and the Koizumi reforms

Reed, Steven R., McElwain, Kenneth Mori, Shimizu, Kay, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Aug 27, 2009 (ISBN: 1931368147)

Research Projects

The Japanese Database of Populism Studies: New Insights and Contributions

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Oct, 2020 - Mar, 2025
憲法改正における多数派形成の多様性に関する国際比較研究

科学研究費助成事業基盤研究(B), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

待鳥聡史, 砂原庸介, 竹中治堅, 浅羽祐樹, MCELWAIN KENNETH
Cognition and preference of the job and social securities: A panelized cognition and conjoint experiment

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2023
Hurdles of Women's Political Participation: Surveys of Diet Members and Party Officials

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2021
The Political Economy of Deflation: Prices, Public Opinion, and Governance

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2021
Developing an Archive Infrastructure for Political Data

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

Kobayashi Yoshiaki
Understanding Welfare Politics in Northeast Asia with Multiple Cleavages

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Nov, 2016 - Mar, 2019
Japanese Electoral Studies 2012-2016

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2012 - 2016

KOBAYASHI Yoshiaki, HIRANO Hiroshi, TANIGUSHI Masaki, YAMADA Masahiro, NATORI Ryota, IIDA Takeshi, ONO Yoshikuni, MCELWAIN Kenneth, MATSUBAYASHI Tetsuya, TSUKIYAMA Hiroki