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Overview

Yusaku Horiuchi is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly output focuses on an array of topics spanning sociology, political science, communication, economics, and strategy.

The main fields of study evident in their work include:

  • Social Sciences

Within these broad disciplines, Horiuchi's subfields of specialization are:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Communication
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Strategy and Management

The topics addressed in Horiuchi's research cover various aspects of political and social dynamics, including:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Social Media and Politics
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Public Relations and Crisis Communication
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies

Horiuchi's recent publications illustrate this thematic range and appear in peer-reviewed journals and scientific outlets. Notable recent papers include:

  • "National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic," 2022, published in Nature Communications
  • "Does Conjoint Analysis Mitigate Social Desirability Bias?", 2021, published in Political Analysis
  • "Does Public Diplomacy Sway Foreign Public Opinion? Identifying the Effect of High-Level Visits," 2021, published in American Political Science Review
  • "Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries," 2023, published in Scientific Data
  • "Perceived Motives of Public Diplomacy Influence Foreign Public Opinion," 2023, published in Political Behavior

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Horiuchi include:

  • Charles Crabtree
  • Benjamin E. Goldsmith
  • Atsushi Tago
  • Panagiotis Mitkidis
  • Kelly Matush

Horiuchi publishes regularly in several academic venues, with numerous contributions to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Journal of Experimental Political Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Political Behavior

Best Publications

  • Reapportionment and Redistribution: Consequences of Electoral Reform in Japan

    Yusaku Horiuchi;Jun Saito

  • In Search of Soft Power: Does Foreign Public Opinion Matter for US Foreign Policy?

    Benjamin E. Goldsmith;Yusaku Horiuchi

  • Designing and Analyzing Randomized Experiments: Application to a Japanese Election Survey Experiment

    Yusaku Horiuchi;Kosuke Imai;Naoko Taniguchi

  • Spinning the Globe? U.S. Public Diplomacy and Foreign Public Opinion

    Benjamin E. Goldsmith;Yusaku Horiuchi

  • Doing Well by Doing Good: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Foreign Public Opinion

    Benjamin E. Goldsmith;Yusaku Horiuchi;Terence Wood

  • Measuring Voters’ Multidimensional Policy Preferences with Conjoint Analysis: Application to Japan’s 2014 Election

    Yusaku Horiuchi;Daniel M. Smith;Teppei Yamamoto

  • Identifying voter preferences for politicians’ personal attributes: a conjoint experiment in Japan

    Yusaku Horiuchi;Daniel M. Smith;Teppei Yamamoto

  • American foreign policy and global opinion - Who supported the war in Afghanistan?

    Benjamin E. Goldsmith;Yusaku Horiuchi;Takashi Inoguchi

  • Making Outsiders' Votes Count: Detecting Electoral Fraud through a Natural Experiment

    Kentaro Fukumoto;Yusaku Horiuchi

  • The Presidency, Regionalism, and Distributive Politics in South Korea:

    Yusaku Horiuchi;Seungjoo Lee

  • Removing Boundaries, Losing Connections: Electoral Consequences of Local Government Reform in Japan

    Yusaku Horiuchi;Jun Saito;Kyohei Yamada

  • Short-run and Long-run Effects of Corruption on Economic Growth : Evidence from State-Level Cross-Section Data for the United States

    Nobuo Akai;Yusaku Horiuchi;Masayo Sakata

  • Does Public Diplomacy Sway Foreign Public Opinion? Identifying the Effect of High-Level Visits

    Benjamin E. Goldsmith;Yusaku Horiuchi;K. E.L.L.Y. Matush

  • Explaining opposition to refugee resettlement: The role of NIMBYism and perceived threats.

    Jeremy Ferwerda;D.J. Flynn;Yusaku Horiuchi

  • Institutions, Incentives and Electoral Participation in Japan: Cross-Level and Cross-National Perspectives

    Yusaku Horiuchi

  • Exposure to Immigration and Admission Preferences: Evidence from France

    Katherine Clayton;Jeremy Ferwerda;Yusaku Horiuchi

  • Should Candidates Smile to Win Elections? An Application of Automated Face Recognition Technology

    Yusaku Horiuchi;Tadashi Komatsu;Fumio Nakaya

  • Partisan motivated reasoning and misinformation in the media: Is news from ideologically uncongenial sources more suspicious?

    Katherine Clayton;Jase Davis;Kristen Hinckley;Yusaku Horiuchi

  • Hard acts to follow: Predecessor effects on party leader survival

    Yusaku Horiuchi;Matthew Earnest Colin Laing;Paul 't Hart

  • AMERICA'S ROLE IN THE MAKING OF JAPAN'S ECONOMIC MIRACLE

    Michael Beckley;Yusaku Horiuchi;Jennifer M. Miller

  • Understanding Japanese Politics from a Local Perspective

    Yusaku Horiuchi

  • Has Trump Damaged the U.S. Image Abroad? Decomposing the Effects of Policy Messages on Foreign Public Opinion

    Alexander Agadjanian;Yusaku Horiuchi

  • Malapportionment and Income Inequality: A Cross-National Analysis

    Yusaku Horiuchi

  • Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality: Evidence for Lijphart's Proposition from Venezuela

    John M. Carey;Yusaku Horiuchi

  • Does Conjoint Analysis Mitigate Social Desirability Bias

    Yusaku Horiuchi;Zachary D. Markovich;Teppei Yamamoto

  • Why Should the Republicans Pray for Rain? Electoral Consequences of Rainfall Revisited:

    Yusaku Horiuchi;Woo Chang Kang

  • Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality

    John M. Carey;John Wentworth;Yusaku Horiuchi

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Carey
John M. Carey Dartmouth College
Kosuke Imai
Kosuke Imai Harvard University
Paul 't Hart
Paul 't Hart Utrecht University
David J. Samuels
David J. Samuels University of Minnesota
Takashi Inoguchi
Takashi Inoguchi J. F. Oberlin University
Peter John
Peter John King's College London

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