Phillip Lipscy

Our article, “The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation” is now available from @thejop.bsky.social. Many thanks to Bob Keohane, the Balzan Foundation, and many colleagues for their feedback! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Please join us for the next session of the Japanese Politics Online Seminar Series on 10/29 (10/30 JST)! Featuring Michael Strausz on “Economic Framing and Local Politicians’ Support for Same-Sex Partnership Recognition in Japan” jposs.org/event/straus...

#OpenAccess - Electoral democracy, lottocracy, and social inequality - https://cup.org/4zcVd24 - @tkbys92.bsky.social #FirstView

Please join us for next #jposs on Oct. 29 (Th) ET! @strauszm.bsky.social will present his co-authored paper, “Economic Framing & Local Politicians’ Support for Same-Sex Partnership Recognition in Japan," w/ Hikaru Yamagishi, Yunchen Tian, & @yoshiono.bsky.social. More info: jposs.org/event/straus...

Thurs., 7/23, 8-9 pm ET: Join #JPOSS #61 to discuss “Crisis from Within: Elite Defection, Intraparty Competition, and the Breakdown of Dominant Party Systems”, by Tyler Rongxuan Chen (U. of Michigan). With Ko Maeda, Ora Jon Reuter, @profdansmith.bsky.social. Info & paper: jposs.org/event/tyler-...

My new article, “After the Landslide: The Takaichi and Abe Governments in Comparative Perspective” is now available from Pacific Affairs. It considers the LDP’s landslide victory and implications for Japanese domestic and international policymaking. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thurs., 5/21, 8-9 pm ET: Join #JPOSS #60 to discuss “Why Do AI Models Tell Left-Wing Voters to Support the Communist Party? AI Voting Advice in Japan’s 2026 General Election”, by Sho Miyazaki and Andrew B. Hall, with Kentaro Fukumoto, @kmcelwain.bsky.social, and @yusakuhoriuchi.bsky.social.

We held our 2026 graduate fellows conference, chaired by @onglynette.bsky.social, Director of the Lab, in late April. Conference featured research by two panels of graduate fellows chaired by Professors Victor Falkenheim and @lipscy.bsky.social. 1/3 @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social @utoronto.ca

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Between the ladder and the mirror: subjective class consciousness and voting under inequality in South Korea - https://cup.org/4jZqb7L - Seungwoo Han #jjps

Thurs., 4/9, 8-9 pm ET: Join #JPOSS #59 to discuss the paper by Christina Davis, Jialu Li, and Sayumi Miyano, “Shaping Trade Stability: WTO Rulings on Export Restrictions and Business Confidence in Supply Chains," with Gregory Shaffer, Iain Osgood, and Saori Katada. Info: jposs.org/event/christ...

NEW ISSUE - Japanese Journal of Political Science - Volume 27 - Issue 1 - March 2026 - https://cup.org/4d4T54T #OpenAccess #jjps

Very excited to welcome Saori Katada to University of Toronto (3/27, 12pm) to present on her book with Kei Koga: "Japan’s Grand Strategy: Liminal Power in an Uncertain World." Hope to see you there if you are in Toronto! @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/book-t...

Reminder: The CSIS Japan Chair is recruiting a deputy director who will play a central role in program administration and activities. More information: https://careers.csis.org/opportunities/1739

"How does racism structure the patterns of cooperation and contestation in international relations?" #OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Institutional Racism in International Relations - https://cup.org/4cpj5Yh - @lipscy.bsky.social & @jiajia.bsky.social #FirstView

Very excited to welcome @levimclaughlin.bsky.social to @utoronto.ca on Tuesday 2/24 to speak about grassroots religious activists in Japanese politics. Should be a fascinating talk. Please join us if you are in Toronto! CC: @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/religi...

I was interviewed by @asahi.com about the recent Japanese election (article is in Japanese) www.asahi.com/articles/ASV...

My daughter thought this was an obvious homage to that old Disney movie she saw when she was a little kid😆❄️

#OpenAccess - Are voters less likely to support politicians when they wear face masks? - https://cup.org/49wQCNj "masks do influence public perceptions and that women politicians lose more public support when wearing masks than men" - Muroga & Crabtree #FirstView cc @lipscy.bsky.social

For those of you in Toronto, please join us next week for a book talk by @maximepolleri.bsky.social on "Radioactive Governance: The Politics of Revitalization in Post-Fukushima Japan." Look forward to seeing you there! munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/book-t...

Very excited to kick off 2026 with a talk by Amy Catalinac on 1/9 (12pm) about her excellent new book, "Dominance Through Division: Group-based Clientelism in Japan." Hope to see you there if you are in Toronto! munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/domina...

Tomorrow, 8-9 pm ET: Join us for #JPOSS #57 to discuss Erik Wang's @erik-h-wang.bsky.social paper, “Too Much But Never Enough: Administrative Capacity and Backlashes to State-building in Medieval Japan,” w/ Emily Sellars, Jun Yamasaki, & Christina Davis. Paper & registration: shorturl.at/HQsg1

congratulations to Dr. Lawther for successfully defending his dissertation today. very happy to have supervised this excellent work

Tuesday, 11/4, 8-9PM ET: Join Director Christina Davis and our Faculty Associates Amy Catalinac, Saori Katada, @adampliff.bsky.social, @lipscy.bsky.social, @profdansmith.bsky.social online to discuss "Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi: What Can We Expect?" munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/japans...

You can find out how to prepare your materials for submission to the Japanese Journal of Political Science, the publication process, and more here - cup.org/4lzndHq #OpenAccess #jjps

We have posted an event report for the Japan Conference hosted at the Centre for the Study of Global Japan ealier this year. Thanks to all the participants for a great conference! munkschool.utoronto.ca/csgj/news/ev...

Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):

Tensions between the LDP and Komeito have been building over recent years, but Japan's ruling coalition has hit a crucial stage. The combo of Takaichi at the helm, plummeting election results for Komeito, a Soka Gakkai base that's facing its own existential crises after Ikeda Daisaku...a new era.

I was interviewed by @scmpnews.bsky.social regarding the LDP leadership contest in Japan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtzY...

Wed., 9/3, 8-9 pm ET: Join next #JPOSS to discuss Jacques Hymans's paper, “Official historical memory discourse and public opinion: The case of Japan’s new banknote designs” with Charles Crabtree, @yoshiono.bsky.social, and @lipscy.bsky.social. Paper and registration: jposs.org/event/hymans...

#OpenAccess from our new issue - Beyond #COVID19 vaccine acceptance: survey evidence from Taiwan - cup.org/4kD6qBy "partisan fights on the vaccination against COVID-19 in Taiwan centred on its brand choice rather than acceptance" - Yun-Yeh Chiang & Jason Kuo

I wrote a piece about Japan's recent upper house election in @eastasiaforum.bsky.social eastasiaforum.org/2025/07/27/j...

Thurs., 6/19, 8-9 pm ET: Join next #JPOSS to discuss Shusuke Ioku's paper, “Weapons of the Weak: Population Mobility and the Construction of the State in Early Modern Japan, with Francisco Garfias @fgarfias.bsky.social, Chiaki Moriguchi, and Amy Catalinac (Chair). Info: jposs.org/event/ioku-0...

The Japan Conference at the Centre for the Study of Global Japan @uoft.bsky.social was a great success. It was wonderful to see exciting work from the next generation of Japan scholars and exchange views on the future of Japan studies.

#JPOSS is organized by Amy Catalinac, Christina Davis, @sfujihira.bsky.social, @yusakuhoriuchi.bsky.social, Saori Katada, @lipscy.bsky.social, and @profdansmith.bsky.social. Please check out Sangyong Son's website. We look forward to your participation! sangyongson.com

📣 Job opening alert: CSIS Japan Chair is now accepting applications for a Fellow/Senior Fellow and a Research Assistant! More information: careers.csis.org/opportunities

Read "The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions," forthcoming in @thejop.bsky.social, co-authored by Faculty Associate @lipscy.bsky.social. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

I am the co-editor-in-chief of @jjps.bsky.social. We welcome manuscripts from the full range of subfields and methods. We are a @cambridgeup.bsky.social open-access journal (OA is free if you don't have funding to cover it). Please consider submitting your work! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our article “The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions” is now forthcoming from @thejop.bsky.social. Many thanks to so many colleagues for their helpful feedback! #Polisky #ClimateChange www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

The three campuses of University of Toronto responded completely differently to overnight snowfall.

Our webinar event on the Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency is coming up tomorrow. Hope to see you there!

The US-Japan Foundation & leading scholars announced an award for best doctoral dissertation in social sciences on Japan. They hope it will give an early boost to the winner's career and deepen our knowledge.Details here: us-jf.org/en/news/usjf... (Please let folks on your distribution lists know.)

We will be hosting a webinar on the Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency on 2/11. Featuring Michael Beeman (USTR under Trump 1.0) and expert comments from Jonathan Miller, @profvekasi.bsky.social, and Yves Tiberghien. Hope you can join us! munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/geoeco...

We are very excited to welcome Kay Shimizu to the Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School to talk about her book, "The Digital Transformation and Japan's Political Economy" (co-authored with Ulrike Shaede). We hope you can join us! munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/digita...

From our new issue - Do pandemics reduce support for democracy? A survey experiment in Myanmar - cup.org/4hirqw9 - Swe Oo Mon & Kyohei Yamada #jjps

The Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame just elected Ichiro, but he only received 92.6% support. When he was eligible, Sadaharu Oh, the world leader with 868 homeruns, only received 93.2%. Who are the dissenters and why are they still allowed to vote? news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/a9a...

Question for authors: I received notice from Cambridge UP about an option to allow my book Petro-Aggression for AI training, with remuneration. Strikes me as a collective action problem: if I decline but every other author accepts, have I only harmed myself? Thoughts?

A Toronto driver was so unhappy with a speed camera that they hacked it off, dragged it through a park, and dumped it into a duck pond www.blogto.com/city/2025/01...