(Last updated : 2025-09-06 00:22:57)
  TAKAYAMA Yuji
   Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Political Science and Economics
   Position   Professor
■ Books and Papers
1. 2022 Article Beyond ‘civil religion’ – on Pascalian influence in Tocqueville History of European Ideas 48(5),pp.518-535 (Single)  Link
■ Conference Presentations
1. 2021/07 The Rise of National Populism: A Study of Envy in Tocqueville’s Political Thought (The 2021 World Congress of Political Science)
2. 2010/04 Indifference in America: Rethinking Civil Religion in Tocqueville (The 68th annual MPSA conference)
■ Academic Qualifications
1. 2003/04~2009/07 〔Doctorial Course〕 Politics, Graduate School, Division of Politics, Waseda University, Completed, politics
2. 1998/04~2003/03 Political Science, Faculty of Political Science & Economics, Waseda University, Graduated,
■ Career History
1. 2012/04~2025/03 WASEDA UNIVERSITY POLITICAL SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS PART-TIME LECTURER
2. 2012/04~2013/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Research Fellow (University of Tokyo)
3. 2010/04~2012/03 WASEDA UNIVERSITY POLITICAL SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
4. 2008/10~2013/03 YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ECONOMICS PART-TIME LECTURER
5. 2007/04~2010/03 WASEDA UNIVERSITY POLITICAL SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
■ Academic Associations Membership
1. 2004 Japanese Political Science Association
2. 2004 Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought
3. 2009 The Japanese Association for American Studies
■ Research Topics, Consignment Studies & KAKENHI Researches
1. 2023/04~2026/03  Rethinking Liberalism and Religion: Secularism and Nationalism  (Key Word : )
2. 2021/04~2024/03  Bonapartism Revisited: An Ideological and Empirical Analysis of Democratic Despotism and Its Counter-discourse  (Key Word : )
3. 2015/04~2018/03  A Structural Analysis of Administrative Despotism in Post-Revolutionary France  (Key Word : )
4. 2010~2011  Restructuring Tocqueville's Social Theory : A Study of New Kind of Poverty in 19th-Century France and England  (Key Word : )
■ Award History
1. 2012/12 The Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities 2012 (History and Civilization)
2. 2012/06 Le Prix Shibusawa-Claudel 2012 (Prix Louis Vuitton Japon)