Professor of Government and Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies Yusaku Horiuchi

  • Dartmouth College
  • Professor, Political Science
  • United States

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My Publications

The differences in policy preferences between voters and parties

  • Political Analysis
  • March 2018
  • Using Japan's 2014 House of Representatives election, this research examines the differences in policy preferences between voters and the party manifestos.

How media frames of terrorist threat affect refugee resettlement policy

  • Science Advances
  • September 2017
  • This research demonstrates how media frames that associate refugees with terrorist threats reduces support for refugee resettlement at the national and local level.

How foreign public opinion affects U.S. foreign policy

  • World Politics
  • June 2012
  • When the U.S. seeks cooperation from countries around the world, do the views of their publics about the U.S. affect foreign policy? This research uses multinational surveys to find a conditional e...

How foreign aid affects foreign public opinion

  • Quarterly Journal of Political Science
  • March 2014
  • Does foreign aid extended by one country improve that country’s image among populations of recipient countries? Our research examines the United States aid program for HIV/AIDS and shows that the p...

Detecting electoral fraud: Case of Japan's 2003 municipal elections

  • American Political Science Review
  • August 2011
  • Weak electoral registration requirements are commonly thought to encourage electoral participation, but may also promote electoral fraud. This research analyzes the 2003 Japanese municipal election...

Consequences of electoral reform in Japan

  • American Journal of Political Science
  • October 2003
  • Does reapportionment, or the redistribution of electoral representation among districts, in a legislature affect policy outcomes? We examine this question from a comparative perspective by focusing...

Design and analysis of randomized experiments

  • American Journal of Political Science
  • July 2007
  • Building on the recent statistical literature on randomized experiments, we offer general recommendations for designing and analyzing randomized experiments to improve validity and efficiency of in...

The effect of foreign visits in U.S. leadership and foreign policy

  • The Journal of Politics
  • July 2009
  • In the context of global foreign policy, how have post-9/11 U.S. public diplomacy efforts successfully improved foreign publics’ appraisals of U.S. foreign policy? This research finds broadly that ...

Gender gaps in political science journals

  • PS Political Science & Politics
  • August 2019

Discerning "fake news" and the importance of news sources

  • Japanese Journal of Political Science
  • June 2019

How interaction with immigrant populations affects perceptions of immigration policy

  • Political Behavior
  • May 2019

Attitudes toward campus diversity in the United States: Case of the US Naval Army

  • Armed Forces & Society
  • February 2019

Explanations for the lack of racial/Ethnic faculty diversity in higher education

  • Politics Groups and Identities
  • November 2018

How Trump's rhetoric affects the U.S. image abroad

  • Political Behavior
  • October 2018

How personal attributes affect voter preferences: Case of Japan

  • Political Science Research and Methods
  • August 2018

Examining America's role in Japan's economic miracle

  • Journal of East Asian Studies
  • January 2018

Examining prior research on the effect of rainfall on voting

  • American Politics Research
  • December 2017

Relationship between mandatory voting and class representation: Case of Venezuela

  • Latin American Politics and Society
  • January 2017

The effect of voter mobilization tactics: Case of Japan

  • Electoral Studies
  • December 2016

The reduced incumbency advantage in Japan

  • Electoral Studies
  • September 2016

How local government reform affects Japanese elections

  • Journal of East Asian Studies
  • April 2015

Effect of the 2000 Palestinian Intifada on Israel's economy

  • Political Science Research and Methods
  • February 2015

Party leader survival rate and succession

  • Party Politics
  • January 2013

How smiling affects candidate electability

  • Political Psychology
  • September 2012

Political origins of agricultural protectionism in Japan

  • Journal of East Asian Studies
  • December 2010

Local level politics in Japan

  • International Political Science Review
  • November 2009

Pork-barrel politics in South Korea

  • Comparative Political Studies
  • November 2007

Election and voter mechanisms in Japanese elections

  • July 2005

Global perspectives on U.S. foreign policy

  • Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • June 2005

Relationships between inequality in income and representation

  • British Journal of Political Science
  • January 2004