GGR will hold the 24th GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar which will be held as below. Anybody who pre-register is welcome to join the event:
| Title | The Dictator’s Dilemma at the Ballot Box: Electoral Manipulation, Economic Maneuvering, and Political Order in Autocracies |
| Speaker | Masaaki Higashijima (Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo) |
| Date | January 22, 2024 (Mon.) |
| Time | 12:30-13:30 |
| Place | Kunitachi Campus, Hitotsubashi University (Venue will be notified upon pre-registration) |
| Language | Japanese |
| Pre-registration | https://hrs.ad.hit-u.ac.jp/v33/entries/add/703 |
About the lecturer:
Masaaki Higashijima currently serves as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. Previously, he was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute and an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Tohoku University. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Michigan State University in 2015, specializing in comparative politics, authoritarian regimes, democratization, and Central Asian politics. His publication, The Dictator’s Dilemma at the Ballot Box (University of Michigan Press, 2022), and its Japanese version 民主主義を装う権威主義 (Chikura Shobo, 2023), have won several national and international academic awards. His articles have been featured in the British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and World Development.
We are looking forward to your participation.
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