Polarization, Disinformation, and Democratic Backsliding in Asia and Beyond

PROGRAM

Session 1 Democratic Backsliding and Polarization 9:00-10:45

1-1 Defeating Executive Aggrandizers: Backlash to Backsliding in Asia and Latin America
Marisa Kellam (Waseda U), Kana Inata (Tokyo Metropolitan U), Aya Watanabe (IDE-JETRO)

1-2 Political Polarization and Anti-Democratic Attitudes in Asia
Hirofumi Miwa (Gakushuin U), Ikuma Ogura (Hitotsubashi U), Tetsuro Kobayashi (Waseda U), Han Il Chang (Kookmin U), Yi-ting Wang (National Cheng Kung U), Sherly Haristya (LSPR Institute of Communication and Business), Ling Liu (Waseda U), Yuko Kasuya (Keio U)

1-3 Challenging Representative Democracy: Technocratic and Populist Attitudes across Ideological Divides in Nine Western Democracies
Daniele Caramani (University of Zurich and European University Institute)

Session 2 Gender and Polarization 11:00-12:45

2-1 Gender Gap in Affective Polarization in East Asian Democracies
Moohyung Cho (Ewha Womans University)

2-2 Locked in a Polarized State? Women’s Representation and Affective Polarization
Hyun Su Kim and Hyeok Yong Kwon (Korea U)

2-3 Same-Sex Marriage in Japan: Purely a Matter of Partisanship?
Antonio Benasaglio Berlu

Session 3 Disinformation and Polarization 14:00-15:45

3-1 Political Polarization, Disinformation, and Correcting Misperception

Shinnosuke Kikuchi (UCSD), Daiki Kishishita (Hitotsubashi U), Yesola Kwon (Sungkyunkwan U), Yuko Kasuya (Keio U)

3-2 Fighting Fake News with Peer Feedback: Theory and Experiment

Yasushi Asako (Waseda U), Yoshio Kamijo (Waseda U), Daiki Kishishita (Hitotsubashi U), Masayuki Odora (Waseda U)

3-3 How Foreign Disinformation Strategies Shape Democracy Attitudes and Polarization

Joe Wright (Penn State U), YiMin Huang (Penn State U), Wonjun Song (Hanyang University)

Session 4 Causes and Consequences of Polarization 16:00-17:45

4-1 Enemy at the #GamerGate: How Participation Forges Ideological Identity in an Online Social Movement
Junmo Song (Ewha Womans University)

4-2 Enemies Within? Affective Polarization and the Erosion of Civic Trust
Nick Lin (Academia Sinica) and Greg Sheen (Academia Sinica)　

4-3 Measuring Consistency in Politicians’ Statements
Ken Kato (VETA), Yasutomo Kimura (Otaru University of Commerce), Yuki Mikiya (Keio University), Kota Mori (Japan Data

Closing 17:45-18:00

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This workshop is sponsored by:

JSPS International Collaborative Research on Democratic Regress, Renewal, and Resilience (PI: Marisa Kellam); JSPS Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting-Edge Humanities and Social Sciences Research on Disinformation and Democracy in East Asia (PI: Yuko Kasuya), the Asia Research Fund, and the Murata Foundation.