Updated on 2025/04/23

写真a

 
Ikeda Fumi
 
Organization
Faculty of Law and Letters Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Social Sciences Associate Professor
Title
Associate Professor
Contact information
メールアドレス
External link

Degree

  • MSc ( 2013.11   Oxford University )

  • MA ( 2011.11   University College London )

  • MSc ( 2009.11   London School of Economics and Political Science )

  • 博士(総合政策) ( 中央大学 )

Research Interests

  • Japanese Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Parties, Elections, Interest Groups, Organizational Votes, Distributive Politics

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Politics  / Japanese Politics, Comparative Politics

Education

  • Chuo University   School of Policy Studies

    2014.4 - 2020.3

      More details

    Country: Japan

    researchmap

  • Oxford University   School of Global and Area Studies

    2012.10 - 2013.11

      More details

    Country: United Kingdom

    researchmap

  • University College London   Department of Political Science

    2010.10 - 2011.11

      More details

    Country: United Kingdom

    researchmap

  • London School of Economics and Political Science   Department of Government

    2008.10 - 2009.11

      More details

    Country: United Kingdom

    researchmap

Research History

  • Ehime University   Faculty of Law and Letters   Assistant Professor

    2022.4

      More details

  • Waseda University   Institue for Advanced Study

    2022.4

      More details

  • Waseda University   Institue for Advanced Study   Assistant Professor

    2020.4 - 2022.3

      More details

Professional Memberships

Committee Memberships

  • 日本政治学会   「年報政治学」編集委員 2025年II号  

    2024.4   

      More details

  • 日本選挙学会   編集委員  

    2024.4   

      More details

Papers

  • Geographically Targeted Spending Toward the Opposition Parties’ Core Supporters

    51 ( 1&2 )   1 - 20   2024.6

     More details

    Authorship:Lead author, Corresponding author  

    researchmap

  • The Effects of the Nuclear Power Plants on Voter Mobilization: Analysis of the Gubernatorial Elections

    Fumi Ikeda

    50 ( 1&2 )   65 - 78   2023.6

     More details

    Authorship:Lead author, Corresponding author  

    researchmap

  • The Influences of the Economic Geography on Elections: The Case of Electric Power Industry in Japan Reviewed

    Fumi Ikeda

    愛媛大学法学部論集 社会科学編   53   27 - 36   2022.9

     More details

    Image
  • From Protest Movements to Political Parties: The Missing Link in Japan

    Fumi Ikeda

    愛媛法学会雑誌   49 ( 1&2 )   91 - 116   2022.5

     More details

    Authorship:Lead author, Corresponding author  

    researchmap

  • The Electoral Clout of Unions in Japan: Vote Mobilization in Company Towns (Abstract) Reviewed

    Fumi Ikeda

    69 ( 6 )   769   2019.12

     More details

    Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher:SAGE Publications  

    DOI: 10.1177/0020834519892867

    researchmap

    Other Link: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0020834519892867

  • The Electoral Clout of Unions in Japan: Vote Mobilization in Company Towns Reviewed

    Fumi Ikeda

    Journal of East Asian Studies   19 ( 1 )   69 - 87   2019.3

     More details

    Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)  

    © 2019 East Asia Institute. Interest groups and other organizations are crucial vehicles for voter mobilization, but variations in their capacities are not well understood. To clarify the ways in which vote mobilization capacities vary, I analyze vote mobilization in two private-sector industrial unions supporting the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). The Japanese Federation of Textile, Chemical, Food, Commercial Service and General Workers' Union (UA Zensen), has a very large membership but mobilizes few votes. The Confederation of Japan Automobile Worker's Unions (JAW), on the other hand, has fewer members but mobilizes more votes. In this article, I argue that unions whose constituent units operate company towns are most successful in mobilizing votes. Organizational capacity-independent of membership size-matters in the electoral arena. Using data from House of Councillors elections, I show that those industrial unions that include many enterprises with company towns have advantage in voter mobilization.

    DOI: 10.1017/jea.2018.30

    Scopus

    researchmap

  • Why does Japan's social democratic party survive? An organizational perspective Reviewed

    Fumi Ikeda

    Social Science Japan Journal   20 ( 2 )   261 - 278   2017.6

     More details

    Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)  

    © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press in conjunction with the University of Tokyo. All rights reserved. This article asks what explains the survival of small parties by analyzing the survival of the Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDP). Many new parties were founded in the early 1990s but few have survived. The SDP is thus an outlier case. The SDP is a successor to the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) but many members of the JSP joined the new center-left Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in 1996. The DPJ prospered but the SDP has faded into electoral insignificance, barely maintaining enough support to qualify as a political party under Japanese law. How and why does the SDP survive despite its dismal performance in elections? I argue that the continuing support of the All Japan Prefectural and Municipal Workers Union (hereafter, Jichiro) has played a significant role in the SDP's survival. Jichiro officially decided to support the DPJ but some prefectural branches continued to support the SDP. The SDP case confirms that societal organizations have played a significant role more than charismatic leadership or policy distinctiveness for small party survival. The SDP case also indicates that societal organizations may hinder cooperation with other parties and might undermine unified opposition building against the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

    DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyx019

    Scopus

    researchmap

  • Rooted or Entrepreneurial Formation? The Formation and the Success of a New Party-The Case of the Democratic Party of Japan- Reviewed

    Fumi Ikeda

    20   3 - 19   2017.2

     More details

    Authorship:Lead author   Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)  

    researchmap

  • The democratic party of Japan: Surviving to fight another day Reviewed

    Fumi Ikeda, Steven R. Reed

    Japan Decides 2014: The Japanese General Election   55 - 61   2016.1

     More details

    Language:English   Publishing type:Part of collection (book)   Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan  

    DOI: 10.1057/9781137552006

    Scopus

    researchmap

▼display all

Books

Presentations

  • The Electoral Clout of Interest Groups and Pork Barrel Politics: Evidence from Japan Invited

    2022年度 日本選挙学会 分科会A 【比較政治部会】政党システムをめぐる比較政治学  2022.5 

     More details

    Event date: 2022.5

    researchmap

  • 日本選挙学会 ディスカッサント Invited

    2022年度 日本選挙学会 分科会H【政党・議会部会2】選挙区をめぐる政治  2022.5 

     More details

    Event date: 2022.5

    researchmap

  • 日本選挙学会 ディスカッサント Invited

    2021年度 日本選挙学会 分科会G 「【国際交流部会】Studies on Taiwanese Elections and Politics」  2021.5 

     More details

  • 日本政治学会 ディスカッサント Invited

    2021年度 日本政治学会 分科会C1「2000年代の日本の政党政治を振り返る」  2021.9 

     More details

  • Geographically Targeted Spending toward Core Voters under the Open-List Proportional Representation System Invited

    2021.9 

     More details

  • Economic Geography and Voter Mobilization: The Case of Opposition Parties in Japan Invited

    日本政治学会 分科会A2【企画委員会企画】 自民一強下における「野党多弱」のメカニズム  2022.10 

     More details

  • Tradeoffs Between Candidate Quality and Local Ties: A Conjoint Analysis

    Kenneth Mori Mcelwain, Fumi Ikeda, Etienne Gagnon

    2021.7 

     More details

  • 日本選挙学会 ディスカッサント

    2023年度 日本選挙学会 分科会B【国政部会】選挙制度と政党システム  2023.5 

     More details

  • Economic Geography and Voter Mobilization: the Case of the Electric Power Industry Invited

    「カーボンプライシング・国境炭素調整」研究会  2023.2 

     More details

  • The Impact of Organizational Votes on the Decline of the Center-Left Parties: The Case of Japan

    2020.11 

     More details

  • 旧同盟系労働組合の組織票:自動車総連とUAゼンセンの事例

    Symposium: Rethinking Economic-Electoral Dimensions in Politics  2018.3 

     More details

▼display all

Research Projects

  • The Importance of Mobilization in the Failure of the Left and the Rise of the Right

    2024.4 - 2028.3

    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

      More details

    Authorship:Coinvestigator(s) 

    Grant amount:\4420000 ( Direct Cost: \3400000 、 Indirect Cost:\1020000 )

    researchmap

  • Unraveling the Origins of Pork-Barrel Politics with International Political Economy

    2024.4 - 2028.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

      More details

    Grant amount:\18590000 ( Direct Cost: \14300000 、 Indirect Cost:\4290000 )

    researchmap

  • Empirical Research on Transformation of Pork-Barrel Politics

    2022.4 - 2026.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

      More details

    Grant amount:\4680000 ( Direct Cost: \3600000 、 Indirect Cost:\1080000 )

    researchmap

  • Impacts of Political Party Support Organizations on Parties andParty Systems

    2020.9 - 2022.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up  Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

      More details

    Grant amount:\2730000 ( Direct Cost: \2100000 、 Indirect Cost:\630000 )

    researchmap

Teaching Experience

  • 現代日本政治

    2024.4 Institution:放送大学 (愛媛学習センター)

     More details

  • 法政専門演習(愛媛大学)

    2024

     More details

  • 政治制度論(愛媛大学)

    2024

     More details

  • Policy Studies

    2023 Institution:Ehime University

     More details

  • Special Studies on Public Policy

    2022.9 - 2023.2 Institution:Ehime University

     More details

  • Political Process

    2022 Institution:Ehime University

     More details

  • Introduction to Policy Studies

    2022 Institution:Ehime University

     More details

  • Introduction to Comparative Politics

    2021.9 - 2022.2 Institution:早稲田大学アジア太平洋研究科

     More details

  • Introduction to Japanese Politics

    2021.9 - 2022.2 Institution:早稲田大学アジア太平洋研究科

     More details

▼display all