Yuta KAMAHARA (鎌原 勇太 [My last and first names in Japanese Kanji, respectively])
Measurement, Democracy, Civil War
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I am currently an Associate Professor (准教授 in Japanese) at Institute of Urban Innovation, Yokohama National University.
I received Ph.D. in Law (Political Science) from Keio University, Japan in 2013.
My research interests include (a) Comparative Politics, (b) International Relations, and (c) Political Methodology. More specifically, I am interested in "measuring democracy and its components" (in (a) and (c)) and the "causes and consequences of civil war" (in (b)). My current projects focus on (i) measuring malapportionment and disproportionality [also developing the relevant R package to calculate them], (ii) the environmental impacts of warfare (i.e., warfare ecology [called by Machlis & Hanson 2008]), and (iii) election forensics.
My works have appeared in Journal of Peace Research, Electoral Studies, Public Choice, and Mathematical Social Sciences.
※日本語話者向け：My PSJ score is 1 as of 2025 (Note: PSJ, or officially known as Political Scientists in Japan, aims to provide information regarding political scientists who work in Japan and have published articles in international journals.)