Japan
Ling Liu is an assistant professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University (Japan). She received her Ph.D. in journalism from Waseda University in 2022. Her research interests are political communication, media psychology and political behavior.
Airo Hino (Ph.D, University of Essex) is Professor of Political Science at School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. He joined Waseda in 2010, after having worked for Tokyo Metropolitan University and Université Catholique de Louvain. His research on party systems, electoral systems, and voting behaviour has been published in journals such as the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, and Government and Opposition. He is the author of New Challenger Parties in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis (Routledge, 2012).
Hiroki Ogawa (Ph.D, Waseda University) is Lecturer of Political Science at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kochi University in Kochi, Japan. He joined Kochi in 2018. His research on electoral systems, party systems, and voting behaviour has been published in journals such as the Waseda Study of Politics and Public Law and Japanese Journal of Electoral Studies.
Robert A. Fahey (Ph.D, Waseda University) is an Assistant Professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study in Tokyo, Japan. He joined WIAS in 2021 having previously worked as a Research Associate at the Waseda Institute of Political Economy and a Visiting Professor at the University of Milan's Department of Social and Political Sciences. His work on public opinion, Japanese politics, and the socio-political impacts of social media has been published in journals including the International Journal of Information Management, PLOS One, and Social Science & Medicine, as well as in Japanese-language journals and in various edited volumes and handbooks.