SAKAI Dr. Ryota

サカイリョウタ | SAKAI Dr. Ryota

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate Professor
Homepage URL (1)： https://sakairyota.wixsite.com/home

Research field (5)： Politics , Cognitive sciences , Politics , Theoretical economics , Politics

Research keywords (17)： Computational Philosophy , epistemic democracy , Evidence-based Policy Making , EBPM , decision-making , Social Choice Theory , Politics , Judgment aggregation , Epistemic democracy , cognitive diversity , Public Choice , Political Philosophy , Public Policy , Collective wisdom , public philosophy , deliberative democracy , Political Theory

Research theme for competitive and other funds (10)：

2023 - 2027 Research on the possibilities and challenges of climate democracy in Japan
2023 - 2026 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research "Collective Intelligence and Democracy"
2024 - 2025 Collective Intelligence Models into Conferences: Appropriate Composition of Discussion Members
2021 - 2024 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) "Empirical Analysis of the Policy Impact of 'Mini Publics' Type Citizen Participation in Tokyo Area Municipalities
2020 - 2024 JSPS Research Grant: Systematic Review of Mathematical Models of Epistemic Democracy

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Papers (20)：

Hélène Landemore, Ryota SAKAI. Revisiting Plato’s Cave: On the Proper Role of Lay People versus Experts in Politics. Proceedings of the 29th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. 2024. 1-49
Ryota SAKAI. Harmonizing Imagination and Feasibility in Political Theory: A Proposal for Compatibility Through the Lens of Model Philosophy. The Annuals of Japanese Political Science Association. 2023. 2023-II. 268-293
Ryota SAKAI. [Best paper award 2024] Political Theory Approaching Policy Studies: Lessons from Deliberative Democracy and Deliberative Mini-Publics. Journal of Public Policy Studies. 2023. 23. 12-24
Ryota SAKAI. How Epistemic Democracy Bridges the Gap between Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Democracy. Planning and Public Management. 2022. 45. 4. 33-38
Ryota SAKAI. Deliberation and Scientific Inquiry: A Comparison of Diversity Trumps Ability Models and Epistemic Landscape Models. The Chuo-Gakuin University Review of Faculty of Law. 2022. 36. 1. 65-92

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Books (2)：

Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave
Gakugei Publishing 2023 ISBN:9784761528522
Defending Democracy with Mathematics: Improvement in Model Analysis in Epistemic Democracy [Click for English summary]
Keiso Shobo Inc. (Funded by Mitsubishi Foundation) 2022 ISBN:9784326303113

Lectures and oral presentations (28)：

Revisiting Plato’s Cave: On the Proper Role of Lay People versus Experts in Politics
(29th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (New Orleans, USA) 2024)
The third way: a reconciliation of political imagination with political feasibility through a multiple-models idealisation approach
(ECPR General Conference (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) 2023)
Philosophy of models reconciles imagination with feasibility in political theory: Rawls and epistemic democracy
(Asian Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 2023 (Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand) 2023)
Bridging Mechanisms of Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Discussion
(Japan Mini-Publics Research Forum Online Workshop 2023)
Who should we invite to our meetings?: A Wicked Problem and Epistemic Democracy
(Kansai Chapter Meeting of the Japanese Association for Public Policy Studies (online) 2023)

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Education (7)：

2018 - 2018 Ph.D. in Politics, Waseda University
2012 - 2017 Waseda University Politics Doctoral Course
2011 - 2012 LSE - London School of Economics and Political Science Government MS in Political Theory
2008 - 2011 Waseda University Politics MA in Political Science
2006 - 2008 University of Tokyo MA in Public Administration

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Professional career (5)：

Ph.D. in Politics (Waseda University)
MS in Political Theory (LSE London School of Economics and Political Science)
MA (Political Science) (Waseda University)
MA (Public Administration) (The University of Tokyo)
BA (Political Science) (Waseda University)

Work history (4)：

2023/04 - 現在 Chuogakuin University Faculty of Law Associate Professor (Reader, Tenured)
2020/04 - 2023/03 Chuogakuin University Faculty of Law Associate Professor (Senior lecturer, Tenured)
2019/04 - 2020/03 Asahi University Department of Law Assistant Professor
2013/07 - 2016/03 Waseda University Research Associate

Committee career (5)：

2022/04 - 2023/03 Abiko City Personal Information Protection Council
Public Choice Awards Committee
JPSA Book Review
Japanese Political Science Association Annual Literature Review Committee Member
The Japan Public Choice Society Journal Editorial Board Member

Awards (9)：

2024/06 - Public Policy Studies Association Japan Best paper award 2024 'Political Theory Approaching Policy Studies: Lessons from Deliberative Democracy and Deliberative Mini-Publics,' Journal of Public Policy Studies, (23)
2023/04 - Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research
2020/06 - The Mitsubishi Foundation (Mitsubishi Zaidan) Research Grants in the Humanities
2019/05 - The Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought Award for distinguished article of this year
2019/02 - Japanese Political Science Association Overseas Research Program Award

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Association Membership(s) (7)：

International Public Policy Association , Public Policy Studies Association, Japan , American Political Science Association , Japanese Political Science Association , Japan Public Choice Society , The Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought , Japan Association of Political Economy

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