Faculty Database - KATO GENTO

■ Books and Papers

1.	2023/10	Article	"The Relationship Between University Education and Pro-Immigrant Attitudes Varies by Generation: Insights From Japan" International Journal of Public Opinion Research 35(4) (Collaboration)
2.	2022/11	Article	"Social Values and Mask-wearing Behaviour During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan" Public Behavioural Responses to Policy Making during the Pandemic: Comparative Perspectives on Mask-Wearing Policies (Collaboration)
3.	2022/06	Article	(Working Paper) "Public Reactions toward Government-sponsored COVID-19 Information in Japan" WINPEC Working Paper Series E2202 (Collaboration)
4.	2022/06	Article	"Universalist Social Benefit and Regressive Taxation as Determinants of Welfare State Support: Survey Experiment on Consumption Tax Hike in Japan" The Annals of Japanese Political Science Association (Collaboration)
5.	2022/05	Article	"Can a Constitutional Monarch Influence Democratic Preferences? Japanese Emperor and the Regulation of Public Expression" Social Science Quarterly 103(3),pp.699-708 (Collaboration)
6.	2021/03	Article	"Donor Competition and Public Support for Foreign Aid Sanctions" Political Research Quarterly 74(1),pp.212-227 (Collaboration)
7.	2020/12	Article	"Explaining 'Twisted' Preferences Toward Monetary Easing in Japan: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Information Environment on the Relationship Between Ideology and Policy Preferences" Japanese Journal of Electoral Studies pp.151-167 (Collaboration)
8.	2020/07	Article	"When Strategic Uninformed Abstention Improves Democratic Accountability" Journal of Theoretical Politics 32(3),pp.366-388 (Single)
9.	2014/03	Article	"Does NHK Make You Smarter (and Super News Make You 'Softer')? An Examination of Japanese Political Knowledge and the Potential Influence of TV News" Japanese Journal of Political Science 15(1),pp.23-50 (Collaboration)
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■ Conference Presentations

1.	2023/09/01	"Do Elections Change Political Attitudes in Autocracies? Identification through the Staggered Introduction of Local Elections in Kazakhstan" (American Political Science Association Annual Meeting)
2.	2023/08/09	"Why Do People Keep Wearing Masks in Japan?: Examining the Role of Information about the Behavior of Others" (International Studies Association Asia-Pacific Region Conference)
3.	2022/10/10	"Preference, Expectation, and Participation for Candidates from Underrepresented Backgrounds" (PSIR Faculty Lecture Series)
4.	2022/09/17	"Strategic Discrimination and Asian Americans" (American Political Science Association Annual Meeting)
5.	2022/04/07	"A Formal Model of Shared Identity Appeals" (Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference)
6.	2022/04/07	"Do Suffrage Extensions Always Cause More Liberal Policy? A Theory of Identity Voting Upon Enfranchisement" (Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference)
7.	2021/11/07	"Is Knowing the Under-Representation of Women a Relief or Concern? Consequences of Perceived Descriptive Representation in Japan" (実験実施前公開研究集会2021)
8.	2021/10/14	"National Identity, External Threat, and Online Communication: The Case of Territorial Disputes in Japan" (CEAS Postdoctoral Associates Lecture Series)
9.	2021/09/28	"A Formal Model of Shared Identity Appeals" (American Political Science Association Annual Meeting)
10.	2021/09/23	"Area-Specific Gender Gap in Daily Movements in Japan Using Mobile Spatial Data" (New Data for the New Challenges of Population and Society)
11.	2021/09/15	"Public Information and Mass Reaction in Autocracies: Information Correction Experiment on COVID-19 in Kazakhstan" (Asian Politics Online Seminar Series)
12.	2020/10/02	"Can University Education Cultivate Immigrant Integration? The Case of Local Enfranchisement for Foreign Residents in Japan" (Japanese Politics Online Seminar Series)
13.	2020/09/24	"Can University Education Cultivate Immigrant Integration? The Case of Local Enfranchisement for Foreign Residents in Japan" (PSIR Faculty Lecture Series)
14.	2020/09/12	"Can University Education Cultivate Immigrant Integration? The Case of Local Enfranchisement for Foreign Residents in Japan" (American Political Science Association Annual Meeting)
15.	2020/07/14	"Towards a General Methodology of Bridging Ideological Spaces" (PolMeth XXXVII)
16.	2019/11/08	"Local Bandwagoning and National Balancing: How Uninformed Voters Respond to the Partisan Environment" (Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop)
17.	2019/10/15	"Local Bandwagoning and National Balancing: How Uninformed Voters Respond to the Partisan Environment" (Political Science Research Workshop)
18.	2019/08/31	"Electoral Consequences of Network Sophistication and Uninformed Participation" (American Political Science Association Annual Meeting)
19.	2019/04/07	"Donor Competition and Public Support for Foreign Aid Sanctions" (Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference)
20.	2019/04/06	"Social Information and Uninformed Voting Behavior: Delegating or Bandwagoning?" (Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference)
21.	2019/04/05	"When Strategic Uninformed Abstention Improves Democratic Accountability" (Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference)
22.	2019/02/11	"Donor Competition and Public Support for Foreign Aid Sanctions" (Conference: Public Opinion and Foreign Aid)
23.	2018/10/31	"Latina/o Metabeliefs about Status Misattribution" (International Metropolis Conference)
24.	2017/11/02	"International News Coverage and Foreign Image Building: Agenda Setting, Persuasion, and Framing in the Formation of Public Image toward Foreign States in Japan, 1987-2015" (Migration Research Cluster Workshop)
25.	2017/08/31	"Threatening Event, National Identity and Network Dynamics of Motivated Information Communication: Exploring Japanese Twitter during the Rise of Territorial Disputes, April through October 2012" (American Political Science Association Annual Meeting)
26.	2016/05/19	"Does the Election Context Matter? Candidate Selection Experiments with Eye-tracking and Mouse-tracking Methods" (GSDS Symposium Konstanz: Exploring Ignorance - The Acquisition, Selection and Processing of Information)
27.	2015/06/24	"Long- or Short-Lasting Media Effects? Longitudinal Study of Newspaper Coverage Influence on Foreign States Perceptions in Japan" (International Workshop: New Developments in Political Communication Research)
28.	2014/11/30	"Shortcuts and Alibis: What Response Latencies Suggest about the Role of Party Identification in Japanese and American Political Decisionmaking" (Asian Network for Public Opinion Research Conference)
29.	2014/08/29	"Opinion Uncertainty and Participation Willingness: Assessing the Power of Response Times and Don’t Know Responses as Predictors of Political Participation" (American Political Science Association Annual Meeting)
30.	2014/04/03	"They 'Don't Know' Their Opinions Matter: DK as a Knowledge Indicator" (Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference)
31.	2013/11/22	"What They 'Don't Know' May Help You: Assessing the Power of Two Knowledge Measures on Japanese Political Participation" (Asian Network for Public Opinion Research Conference)
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■ Academic Qualifications

1.	2015/08～2020/06	〔Doctorial Course〕, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis, Completed, Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science
2.	2013/04～2015/04	〔Master Course〕 Political Science Course, Contemporary Politics Area, Graduate School, Division of Politics, Waseda University, Completed, Master of Arts in Political Science
3.	2010/09～2011/05	Middlebury College, Studying abroad,
4.	2008/04～2012/03	Division of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Liberal Arts, International Christian University, Graduated, Bachelor of Arts

■ Career History

1.	2023/09～	Meiji University School of Political Science and Economics Senior Assistant Professor
2.	2021/09～2022/05	Yale University Council on East Asian Studies Postdoctoral Associate
3.	2020/08～2023/06	Nazarbayev University Department of Political Science and International Relations Assistant Professor

■ Major Subjects

Theories of Political Process

■ Academic Associations Membership

1.	2019/06～	Japanese Political Science Association
2.	2014/10	Midwest Political Science Association
3.	2014/06～	Japanese Association of Electoral Studies
4.	2014/01～	American Political Science Association

■ researchmap Researcher Code

B000247195

■ Research Topics, Consignment Studies & KAKENHI Researches

1.

2022/06～2023/05

Information, Identity, and Civic Competence (Key Word : )

■ Web Sites

https://gentok.github.io

■ Email Addresses

■ Award History

1.	2019/09	Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis Merk Prospectus Award
2.	2019/02	Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis Dissertation Improvement Award
3.	2018/06	Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis Summer Collaborative Award
4.	2015/03	Waseda University Azusa Ono Memorial Award
5.	2015/03	Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University Iijima Award
6.	2015/03	Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University The Best MA Thesis Award
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■ Current Specialized Field

Political Science, Political Behavior (Key Word：Political Process, Political Psychology, Political Behavior)

■ Courses and Lectures taught or delivered in the past

1.	Theories of Political Process（Meiji University）
2.	Liberal Arts Seminar（Meiji University）
3.	PLS534: Text Analysis and Political Communication in the Information Age（Nazarbayev University）
4.	PLS434: Text Analysis and Political Communication in the Information Age（Nazarbayev University）
5.	PLS140: Introduction to Comparative Politics（Nazarbayev University）
6.	PLS516: Experimental Political Science（Nazarbayev University）
7.	PLS416: Experimental Political Science（Nazarbayev University）
8.	PLS211: Quantitative Methods（Nazarbayev University）
9.	応用計量政治分析（最尤法）（ナザルバエフ大学）
10.	応用計量政治分析（最尤法）（ナザルバエフ大学）
11.	PLS312: Public Opinion and Elections（Nazarbayev University）
12.	PLSC678: Japan and the World（Yale University）
13.	PLSC162: Japan and the World（Yale University）
14.	POL051: Scientiﬁc Study of Politics（University of California, Davis）
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