2020 - 2024 The Consolidation of State Authority in Historical Perspective
2019 - 2021 Information Revolution and Political Revolution: An Empirical Investigation of Forbidden Books as a Determinant of the French Revolution
2018 - 2020 Bottom-Up Approach to State-Building in Historical Perspective
2018 - 2019 How Culture Affects Political and Economic Development
Papers (3):
Yu Sasaki. The Royal Consultants: The Intendants of France and the Bureaucratic Transition in Pre-modern Europe. Journal of Historical Political Economy. 2021. 1. 2. 259-282
Yu Sasaki. Content with Failure? Cultural Consolidation and the Absence of Nationalist Mobilization in the Case of the Occitans in France. Social Science History. 2019. 43. 02. 213-241
Yu Sasaki. Publishing Nations: Technology Acquisition and Language Standardization for European Ethnic Groups. The Journal of Economic History. 2017. 77. 4. 1007-1047
Lectures and oral presentations (45):
Weak States and Hard Censorship
(Asian Historical Economics Conference 2024 2024)
Domine salvum fac regem: The Early Demise of Divine Right and The Rise of Legitimacy by Royal Authority
(American Political Science Association)
Weak States and Hard Censorship
(Midwest Political Science Association)
Weak States and Hard Censorship
(Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture)
Weak States and Hard Censorship
(Applied Microeconomics Seminar 2024)