Masaaki Higashijima, Matthew Charles Wilson. Election Management Institutions as Catalysts for Autocratic Transformation. Democratization. 2026. Online First
Susumu Annaka, Masaaki Higashijima, Gento Kato. Government Information and Popular Reactions in Autocracies: An Information Correction Experiment on COVID-19 in Kazakhstan. Political Studies. 2025. accepted
Masaaki Higashijima, Naoki Shimizu, Hidekuni Washida, Yuki Yanai. Partisan Reactions to Endogenous Election Timing: Evidence from Conjoint Experiments in Japan. Political Behavior. 2025. Online First
Austin Mitchell, Kana Inata, Masaaki Higashijima. Political and Economic Protests in Authoritarian Regimes. Public Choice. 2025. Online First
Masaaki Higashijima, Naoki Shimizu, Hidekuni Washida, Yuki Yanai. Election Timing across Autocracy and Democracy (ETAD): A New Data Set of National Election Dates. Electoral Studies. 2025. Online First
Elected Leaders and Informal Tax Contributions: Natural Experiment Evidence from Village Elections in Kazakhstan
(The Quality of Government Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg 2026)
Third-Party Autonomy in Electoral Autocracies: Election Management For Political Survival
(Party Research Group Workshop, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg 2026)
Popular Protests and the Elite-Mass Linkage in Autocracies: Experimental and Observational Evidence from Kazakhstan
(Workshop on "Crisis of Democracy in Comparative Perspective," Department of Political Science, Aarhus University 2026)
Regime Transitions and Economic Prosperity: Myths of Autocrat-Induced Growth
(Comparative Politics Seminar Series 2025)
Regime Transitions and Economic Prosperity: Myths of Autocrat-Induced Growth
(Comparative Politics Section Meeting 2025)
2009 - 2015 Michigan State University Department of Political Science (Fulbright Scholar)
2006 - 2008 Waseda University Graduate School of Political Science
2002 - 2006 Waseda University School of Political Science and Economics Department of Political Science
Professional career (1):
Ph.D. in Political Science (Michigan State University)
Work history (20):
2026/04 - 現在 The University of Tokyo Professor
2022/04 - 現在 Hokkaido University
2019/12 - 現在 V-Dem 東アジア地域センター 研究員
2019/10 - 現在 早稲田大学 現代政治経済研究所 特別研究所員
2023/04 - 2026/03 The University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science Division of Comparative Contemporary Politics
2025/10 - 2026/01 Aarhus University Department of Political Science Visiting Researcher
2024/08 - 2025/10 University of Washington Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies Visiting Scholar
2020/08 - 2025/08 University of Michigan Center for Political Studies Sponsored Affiliate
2023/10 - 2024/01 Tohoku University Graduate School of Information Sciences
2016/07 - 2023/03 Tohoku University Graduate School of Information Sciences Associate Professor
2021/04 - 2022/03 Waseda University School of Political Science and Economics
2020/04 - 2021/03 北海道大学スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター 客員准教授
2018/08 - 2020/08 独立行政法人日本学術振興会 海外特別研究員
2018/08 - 2020/08 The University of Michigan Center for Political Studies Visiting Research Scholar
2015/04 - 2016/06 Waseda University Institue for Advanced Study Assistant Professor
2015/09 - 2016/03 European University Institute Department of Social and Political Sciences Post-Doctoral Max Weber Fellow
2014/04 - 2014/06 KIMEP University (Kazakhstan) Department of Public Administration, Visiting Scholar
2012/12 - 2013/06 The World Bank African Region Research Consultant
2011/05 - 2011/08 American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) Social Research Center Visiting Research Fellow
2009/04 - 2009/08 JSPS Pre-Doctoral Fellow (DC2) Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University
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Committee career (12):
2025/09 - 現在 Political Behavior Associate Editor
2024/06 - 現在 『比較政治研究』 編集委員長
2024/02 - 現在 Japanese Journal of Political Science Editor
2022/06 - 現在 日本比較政治学会 理事
2021/03 - 現在 Electoral Integrity Project International Academic Advisory Board Member
2020/12 - 現在 V-Dem East Asia Regional Center Steering Committee Member
2025/10 - 2026/10 日本政治学会 企画委員(比較政治)
2023/11 - 2025/08 Political Behavior Editorial Board Member
2020/04 - 2025/03 Interdisciplinary Information Sciences Editorial Board Member
2023/09 - Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) The Ed A Hewett Book Prize (Honorable Mention) The Dictator's Dilemma at the Ballot Box (UMP, 2022)の受賞
2023/06 - ジェトロ・アジア経済研究所 第44回発展途上国研究奨励賞 The Dictator's Dilemma at the Ballot Box (UMP, 2022)の受賞
2022/05 - 日本選挙学会 優秀ポスター賞
2015/04 - Michigan State University, Political Science Department, Graduate Student Best Paper Award
2014/03 - International IDEA/Electoral Integrity Project, The Best Graduate Student Paper on Electoral Integrity
2008/07 - 秋野豊ユーラシア基金 第10回秋野豊賞
2008/03 - 早稲田大学 小野梓記念学術賞
2008/03 - 早稲田大学大学院政治学研究科 飯島衛記念褒章
2008/03 - 早稲田大学大学院政治学研究科 研究科長賞
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Association Membership(s) (5):
American Political Science Association
, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
, 日本比較政治学会
, 日本政治学会
, 日本選挙学会