Takaharu Saito is Assistant Professor (Tenured) at Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Department of Economics. Takaharu’s research studies the presidency and bureaucracy in advanced democracies with a specific focus on the United States and Japan. 

Takaharu uses a broad range of methods in his research, including machine learning (natural language processing), causal inference, and formal models.

He is a 2020-2021 Japan Society of Promotion of Science Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers Fellow at the University of California,  Berkeley.

He received the Special Award for Outstanding Dissertation from Graduate School for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo.

Takaharu's papers have been published in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Discover Public Health, and Preventive Medicine Reports.

More information on his studies is available  here.

What's New

June 20, 2025. "Unilateral Power for Saving Lives: Presidential Policymaking under COVID-19" (Working Paper ) is acceptet for Presidential Studies Quarterly.

February 14, 2025. Revised and Uploaded New WP "Natural Disaster and Public Support for Presidential Unilateralism: Natural Experiment Approach"  Working Paper 

February 13, 2025. Revised and Uploaded WP "Who Holds the Purse Strings? Opposition-led Speakers and Budgetary Expansion under Fiscal Pressure" (Working Paper )

February 13, 2025. Revised and Uploaded WP "Does  Business Experience Lead to More Unilateral Policymaking? Evidence from CEO Governors in the United States" (Working Paper ) 

September 5, 2024. Received Special Award for Outstanding Dissertation Submitted to University of Tokyo, Graduate School for Law and Politics.

July 31, 2024. The New Paper "Female Legislators Decrease Epidemic Deaths" is published in Discover Public Health (Article )

April 14, 2024. Uploaded New WP "Supervision among Agencies for the President" (Working Paper )

March 25, 2024. The New Paper "Legislative Incapacity and Underreporting of COVID-19 Mortality" is published in Preventive Medicine Reports (Article )

e-mail： takaharu_saito[@]nucba.ac.jp