Curriculum Vitae

                               Ken'ichi IKEDA, Ph.D.

Born July 7, 1955; male; Japanese citizen

• Mailing Address
  Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 JAPAN
  Phone : 81-3-5841-3868
  Fax     : 81-3-3815-6673
  e-mail: ikeken at l.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  

• EDUCATION
  Ph.D. The University of Tokyo, 1995 (Social Psychology)
  "Cognitive Social Psychology of Voting Behavior".
  M.A. The University of Tokyo, 1980 (Social Psychology)
  B.A. The University of Tokyo, 1978 (Social Psychology)
  

• TEACHING FIELDS
  Social psychology, Political psychology, Social cognition, Psychology of emotion, Mass communication, Information society.
  

• RESEARCH INTERESTS
  Election and Voting, Public Opinion, Political Psychology, Social Network and Mass Media's Impacts on Political Behavior, Social Psychology of Reality Construction, Mediated Communication and New Media.
  

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• August 2000 Professor, Department of Social Psychology, The University of Tokyo.

• 1992 to July 2000 Associate Professor, Department of Social Psychology, The University of Tokyo.

• 1989-1992 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Meiji-Gakuin University.

• 1987-1989 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Meiji-Gakuin University.

• 1982-1987 Research Fellow in the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies, The University of Tokyo.

• 1995 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, U.S.A..

• 1996 Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

• 1997-8 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Advanced Studies, Indiana University, U.S.A. (from August 1997 to May 1998)

RESEARCH AND OTHER POSITIONS

• A member of the Specially Promoted Research on Science (Ministry of Education) "JES2" (Japanese Election Study 2) ;The fund is for "Nationwide Chronological Studies on Voting Behavoirs 1993-1997. The other members of the research are; Miyake, I.(Kansai Univ.), Watanuki, J. (Sophia Univ.), Kabashima, I.(Tsukuba, Univ.), & Kobayashi, Y.(Keio Univ.)

• A member of "CNEP" (Cross National Election Project) 1990-; US, UK, German, Spain, Chile, paraguay & Japan. ; The other member of the team is ; [The American Team] Beck, P.A.(OSU), Russell Dalton(UC Irvine), Huckfeldt, R.(Indiana U), [The British Team] Curtice, J.(U of Strathclyde), Heath, A.(Nuffield College, Oxford), Jowell, R.(Social and Community Planning Research), Lalljee, M.(Jesus College,Oxford), Park, A.(Social and Community Planning Research), Taylor, B.(Nuffield College,Oxford), [The Chilean Team] Aguero, F.(OSU), Sunkel, G.(SUR Consulteras, Santiago), [The German Team] Hackenbroch, R.(Universitaet Leipzig), Kaase, M.(Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin), Klingemann, H.-D. (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin), Kuechler, M.(CUNY), Pappi, F. U. (Universitaet Mannheim), Pfetsch, B.(Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin), Schmitt-Beck, R.(Universitaet Mannheim), Schrott, P.(ZUMA), Voltmer, K.(Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin), Wessels, B.(Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin), [The Japanese Team] Akuto, H.(Toyo-Eiwa Women's University), Flanagan, S.(Florida State University), Ikeda, K.(University of Tokyo), Richardson, B.(OSU), Suzuki, H.(Tokyo-Intn'l U), Yamada, K.(Hosei U), Midooka, K.(Tokyo Women's U), Kawakami, K.(Meiji-Gakuin U), Inaba, T.(Ritsumeikan U), [The Spanish Team] Gunther, R. (OSU), Llera, F.(Facultad de Ciencias Sociales), Maravall, J. M.(Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones), Montero, J. R.(Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones), Pallares, F.(Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Retortillo, A.(Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de la Comunicacion), [The Uruguayan Team] Mieres, P.(Centro Latinoamericano de Economia Humana), [American, British, Spanish Media Content Analysis] Semetko, H. A.(University of Amsterdam).

• A member of "JEDS" (Japanese Election and Democracy Study) 1996- 2000; The fund is supported by National Science Foundation (SBR-9632113) and Ministry of Education in Japan. The other members are Richardson B.M.(OSU), Pharr S.J.(Harvard U.), Patterson, D.P.(MSU), Uchida, M.(Waseda U.), Hayashi, F.(Toyo-Eiwa Women's U.), Tanifuji, E.(Waseda U.), Tanaka, A.(Aoyama-Gakuin U.), Nishizawa, Y.(Doushi-sha U.), & Kawakami, K.(Meiji-Gakuin U.).

• A member of "JEDS2" (Japanese Election and Democracy Study 2) 1999-; The fund is supported by Ministry of Education in Japan. The other members are Miyake (Kansai U.), Tanaka, A.(Waseda U.), Nishizawa, Y.(Doushi-sha U.), & Hirano, H.(Gakushuin U.).

• A member of "EPCReN" (Eurasia Political Culture Research Network); headed by Geir Helgesen (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen. This is a comparative surveys to be conducted in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway in 1998-2001. The Group's Web site is http://eurasia.nias.ku.dk/epcren/ .

• A member of "Losing Faith in Politics" (Comparative Study on Japan-US Political Attitude and Behavior from Longitudinal Perspectives); headed by John Campbell (University of Michigan), 1998-2000.

• Principal investigator of the Specially Promoted Research on Science (Ministry of Education) "JES3" (Japanese Election Study 3) ;The fund is for "Nationwide Chronological Studies on Voting Behavoirs in the 21 Century; 2001-2006. The other members of the research are; Kobayashi, Y.(Keio Univ.), and Hirano, H.(Gakushuin Univ.) : Basic information on the panel surveys 2001-2005. The dataset is released for academic use （On how to apply for using the dataset of SSJDA data archive）

• Co-principal investigator of The emergence of cyber communities and their social impact in Japan & Korea’s socio-cultural context (with Sang-Min Wang (Yonsei Univiersity), Keun-Young Jang , (Yonsei University),  Susumu Yamaguchi (The University of Tokyo) and Saya Shirashi (The University of Tokyo).

• A member of CSES3(The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems) http://www.cses.org/plancom/module3/m3pcmembers.htm

• A member of Asian Barometer project 2002-　：Fu Hu, Yun-han Chu (co-leader), Larry Diamond, Doh Chull Shin, Andrew Nathan, Hsin-chih Kuan, Kenichi Ikeda, and Robert Albritton (Committee of core researchers)

• A member of JGSS (Japanese General Social Survey).

• Co-principal investigator of the Specially Promoted Research on Science (Ministry of Education) "JES4" (Japanese Election Study 4) ;The fund is for "Nationwide Chronological Studies on Voting Behavoirs 2007-2012. The other members of the research are; Hiroshi  Hirano (PI, Gakushuin Univ.), Yoshiaki Kobayashi (Keio Univ.), and Masahiro Yamada(Kwansei Gakuin University).

• Principal investigator of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A) (Ministry of Education and Science). The fund is for the joint panel survey for the Asian Barometer Survey 2 and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems 3 (2006-2009). The other members are Yoshitaka Nishizawa.(Doushi-sha U.), Masahiro Yamada (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.), Satoko Yasuno (Chuo Univ.), Naoko Taniguchi (Teikyo Univ.), and Gill Steel (The University of Tokyo).

• [WASC project: Comparative research project on values, trust, participation and democracy in Japan] Principal investigator of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S) (Ministry of Education and Science). The fund is for the national joint panel survey for the Asian Barometer Survey 3,the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems 4, World Values Survey 2010, and Social Network Survey (2009- 2014). The other members are Masahiro Yamada (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.), Satoko Yasuno (Chuo Univ.), Naoko Taniguchi (Teikyo Univ.), Gill Steel (The University of Tokyo), Seiko Yamazaki (Dentsu Ltd), Eri Shigemasu (Yamagashi Gakuin Univ.), Tetsuro Kobayashi (Institute of Informatics), Kazunori Inamasu (The University of Tokyo), and Richey Sean (Georgia State Univ). [WASC is abbreviation of WVS2010, ABS3, Social network survey, and CSES4]

  　

  　

• 1988-1995 A member of the Committee "Environmental Changes Surrounding Statistical Survey", The National Statistics Bureau.
  1988-1995 A member of Editorial Board "The Japanese Association for Public Opinion Poll Report".
  1990,1995-1996 A member of the Committee "Information Society and Youth", The Ministry of General Affairs.
  1990-1991 A member of the Committee on Human Minimum, The Economic Planning Agency.
  1991-1995 A member of Editorial Board "Journal of Information and Communication Research (in Japanese)".
  1994-1996 A member of Planning Board, Japan Election Studies Association.
  1996-1997 A member of the Board of Directors, Japan Election Studies Association.
  1994-1997 A member of Editorial Board, "Cognitive Science Monograph (in Japanese)", Japanese Cognitive Science Society.
  1995-1998 A member of Editorial Board, "Research in Social Psychology (in Japanese)".
  1995-1996 A member of the Board of Standing Directors of Japanese Society of Social Psychology (Director of Executive Office).
  1996-1997 A member of Editorial Board, Japan Election Studies Association.
  1998-1999 A member of Planning Board, Japan Election Studies Association.
  1997-1998 A member of the Board of Standing Directors of Japanese Society of Social Psychology (Office of Public Relations).
  
  2000-2008 A member of the Board of Directors, Japan Election Studies Association.
  2003         Editor-in-chief of the Board of Directors, Japan Election Studies Association.
  2004-2005 President, Japan Election Studies Association.
  2005-2008 A member of the Board of Directors of Japanese Society of Social Psychology.

  2007-2008 Editor-in-chief of the official Journal of Japanese Society of Social Psychology.

  2008-        Consulting Editor of Asian Journal of Social Psychology
  
  [Referees] (in these 5 years)
  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  International Political Science Review
  Political Behavior
  Comparative Political Studies
  Japanese Journal of Political Science
  Journal of East Asian Studies
  iCS(Information, Communication & Society)
  New Media & Society
  Social Behavior and Personality
  Asian Journal of Social Psychology
  
  The Annuals of Japanese Political Science Association (in Japanese)
  Japanese Journal of Psychology(in Japanese)
  Cognitive Studies(in Japanese)
  Journal of Information & Communication Research(in Japanese)
  　

Awards

• 1994 Telecom Social Science Award (Japan Telecommunication Foundation, by publishing Social Psychology of Electronic Networking).

• 1997 Shimada Award (Japanese Social Psychology Association, by publishing Changing Reality of Politics)

• 2005 Miyake Award (Leviathan Editorial Board, by publishing “2001 Japanese House of Councilors Election and ‘Koizumi Effect’”)

SELECTED PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

* General Studies on Social Psychology;
(Books)

• Emergency Decision Making, The University of Tokyo Press (in Japanese), 1986.

• Social Psychology: Perspectives 3 Vols., Seishin Shobo (in Japanese.Co-Editors with I. Daibo & K. Ando), 1989-1990.

• Mind and Society, The University of Tokyo Press (in Japanese with K. Murata), 1991.

• Psychology of Images on Society: The Formation of Our Social Reality, Saiensu-sha (in Japanese), 1993.

• Emotion (Lecture Series on Cognitive Science), Iwanami-Shoten (in Japanese with M. Ito et al.), 1994.

• Social Psychology, Iwanami-Shoten (in Japanese with Daibo, I., and Ando, K), 1995.

• Communication, The University of Tokyo Press. ( in Japanese. Series on Models of Social Sciences), 2000.

• Word of Mouth and Consumer Behavior: Empirical Study Using Snow-Balling Sampling Survey via Internet.(in Japanese with Miyata, K. as co-editor, NTT Publishing Co.), 2008.

* Studies on Election and Public Opinion;
(Books)

• Election Coverages and Voting Behavior, The University of Tokyo Press (Wrote four chapters mainly on "Announcement Effect" on Voting; in Japanese edited by I. Takeuchi), 1988.

• Spiral of Silence (Translation), Brain-Shuppan (in Japanese), 1988.

• Analyses and Comments on the Changes in Party Support Variables (In Parties and Cabinet in Japan 1981-1991), Jiji-Tsushin-Sha, 1992.

• Analyses and Comments on the Changes in Cabinet Support Variable (In Parties and Cabinet in Japan 1981-1991), Jiji-Tsushin-Sha, 1992.

• Social Psychology of Political Behavior, Fukumura-Shuppan (in Japanese with H. Akuto, et al.), 1994.

• Spiral of Silence 2nd Edition(Translation), Brain-Shuppan (in Japanese with Yasuno, S.), 1997.

• Changing Reality of Politics, Bokutaku-sha (in Japanese), 1997 (Received the 2nd Shimada Award by Japanese Social Psychology Association).

• Political Reality and Social Psychology: The Dynamics of the Koizumi Years. Bokutaku-sha (in Japanese), 2007.
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(Journals & Book Chapters)

• "'Spiral of silence' hypothesis & voting intention: A test in the 1986 Japanese national election", Keio Communication Review, 10, 51-62, 1989.

• "Schema Theory in Voting Behavior"(in Japanese), The Annals of the Japan Election Studies Association, 6. 137-159, 1991.

• "Political Parties as Political Actor : Explaining Voting Behavior by the Patterns of Cognitive Schema about Political Parties"(in Japanese with Y. Nishizawa), Leviathan, 10, 62-81, 1992.

• "Party Schemas in Changing Political Powers"(in Japanese), Leviathan, 15, 73-103, 1994.

• "Social Psychology of Voting Behavior in 90s'" (in Japanese with S. Yasuno), The Annals of the Japan Election Studies Association, 12, 28-40, 1997.

• "Political Cognitive Maps, Homogeneous Group Environment, Exemplars in Mass Media, and Voting Behavior in the 1993 General Election in Japan --A Study in Political Social Reality", 1997, Progress in Asian social psychology, Vol.1, Wiley, Ch.17, Pp.264-285.

• "Interpersonal environment effects on political preferences: The 'middle path' for conceptualizing social structure in New Zealand and Japan"(with Liu, J., and Wilson, M.), 1998, Political Behavior, 20, 183-212.

• "Political expertise, interdependent cisizens, and the value added problem in democratic politics (with Robert Huckfeldt and Franz U. Pappi), 2000, Japanese Journal of Political Science, 1, 171-195.

• "Political communication and disagreement among citizens in Japan and the United States"(with Robert Huckfeldt), 2001, Political Behavior, 23 (1):23-51 (http://www.wkap.nl/oasis.htm/344657).

• Social Capital and Social Communication in Japan: Political Participation and Tolerance. Research Paper CSD02-05 (2002). Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine.

• Patterns of disagreement in democratic politics: Comparing Germany, Japan, and the United States (coauthored with Robert Huckfeldt (first author) and Franz Urban Pappi (third author))(2005) American Journal of Political Science, 49, 497-514.

• Dynamics of interpersonal political environment and party identification: Longitudinal studies of voting in Japan and New Zealand (coauthored with James Liu, Masahiko Aida, and Marc Wilson (Ikeda is the first author)) (2005) Political Psychology, 26, 517-542.

• Analyses on 2003 Japanese General Election and 2004 House of Councilors Election: The Politics of Hope of Koizumi Years, 2005, Annals of Japanese Political Science Association, 2005-I, Pp.36-65(in Japanese).

• Ikeda, Ken'ichi & Richey, Sean E. (2005) Japanese Network Capital: The Impact of Social Networks on Japanese Political Participation, Political Behavior, 27, 239-260.

• Ikeda, Ken'ichi (2006) Political Culture and "Social Capital": Eastern and Western perspectives. (In) Helgesen, Geir, & Thomsen, Soren Risbjerg (Ed.) Politics, culture and self: East Asian and North European attitudes. NIAS Press. Pp.235-253.

• Ken'ichi Ikeda and Tetsuro Kobayashi (2006) Risk Avoidance and Economic Value Orientation: Functioning of Post-materialist Values in the Pacific Rim Countries. (In) Dalton, Russel (Ed.) Citizens, Democracy and Markets around the Pacific Rim. Oxford University Press. Pp.201-222.

• Richey, Sean & Ikeda, Ken'ichi (2006) "The influence of political discussion on policy preference: A comparison of the United States and Japan." Japanse Journal of Political Science, 7, 273-288.

• Ikeda, Ken'ichi, Kobayashi, Tetsuro, & Hoshimoto, Maasa (2008) "Does Political Participation Make a Difference?: The Relationship Between Political Choice, Civic Engagement and Political Efficacy." Electoral Studies, 27, 77-88.

• Ikeda, Ken'ichi & Kobayashi, Tetsuro (2008) "Making democracy work via the functioning of heterogeneous personal networks: An empirical analysis based on a Japanese election study." (In) Ray-May Hsung, Nan Lin, & Ronald Breiger (Eds.) Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families. London: Taylor & Francis. Pp. 72-90.

• Ikeda, Ken'ichi and Kohno, Masaru (2008) "Japanese Attitudes and Values toward Democracy." (In) Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, Andrew J. Nathan, and Doh Chull Shin (Eds.) How East Asians View Democracy, Columbia University Press, Pp.188-219.

• Ikeda, Ken'ichi & Richey, Sean E. (2009) The Impact of Diversity in Informal Social Networks on Tolerance in Japan. British Journal of Political Science, 39, 655-668.(Online http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=2460112)

• Sean Richey and Ken'ichi Ikeda (2009 in printing) Institutional Incentives and Trust: Marginalized Groups and the Creation of Trust in Local Government. Social Science Quarterly, 90.

(Presentations)

• "Cognitive Social Psychology of Voting Behavior : 1992 Japanese House of Councilors Election Panel Study", Paper presented at the conference of the International Association for Mass Communication Research held at Dublin City University, Ireland, June 25-26, 1993.

• "Mass media's construction of reality and voting behavior in the 1993 General Election in Japan", Paper presented at the conference of the International Association for Mass Communication Research held at Seoul, Korea, July, 3-8, 1994.

• "Impact of mass media and social network on voting behavior in Japan: The case in the 1993 General Election 1994" (with Midooka, K., & Yamada, K.), Paper presented at the annual convention of American Political Science Association held at New York, U. S. A., September, 1-4, 1994.

• "Political Environment in Japanese Social Networks", Paper presented at the Tokyo Symposium on the Cross-National Election Project (CNEP), held at Tokyo, 19-21, 1994.

• "Political Cognitive Maps, Homogeneous Group Environment, Exemplars in Mass Media, and Voting Behavior in the 1993 General Election in Japan --A Study in Political Social Reality", Paper prepared for the Inaugural Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology, held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 21-23, 1995.

• "Social Psychological Study on Voting Behavior: Impact of Party Schema and Group Environment", (In) Mind, Machine, & Emvironment: Facing the Challenges of the 21st Century, Seoul: Hak Mun Publishing Co., Pp.293-315 (As a Conference paper for the KPA 50th Anniversary Conferences held at Seoul, 27-29th June, 1996.

• Persuasion or Environment? : Interpersonal Forces Working on Voting Decision:Panel Analysis on Voting Behavior 1995-96, 1997 Paper prepared for the 2nd Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology, held at Kyoto, August , 1997.

• Japanese Interpersonal Characteristics: A Comparison of Citizen Politics in Janan and the U.S. East Asian Colloquium, Indiana University, February, 1998.

• Cultural and Interpersonal Influence on Political Behavior in Japan: Talk Politics Without Revealing Your Own Preference. Noon Lecture Series, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, March, 1998.

• Social Networks, Political Discussion, and the Exercise of Citizenship (with Pappi, F.). Annual Meeting of Midwest Political Science Association, April, 1998.
  

• Social Networks and Interpersonal Influences in Japanese Voting Behavior. Paper prepared for delivery at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Mass., September 3-6, 1998.
  

• Japanese Political Culture in Transition, 1999 Paper prepared for the 3rd Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology, held at Taipei, August , 1999.
  

• Discussant with Max Kaase in the panel "Golobalization and the cultural dimensions of democracy". Panel in the 23rd World Congress of International Political Science Association held at Quebec, Canada, 1-5 August, 2000.
  

• Political expertise, interdependent citizens, and the value added problem in democratic politics, Paper prepared with Robert Huckfeldt and Franz U. Pappi for "Losing Faith in Politics?" project workshop held at Quebec, Canada, 5-7 August, 2000.
  

• Political Culture and "Social Capital" from Eastern and Western Perspectives . Paper submitted for Stockholm workshop for EPCReN project held at August, 2001.
  

• Social capital and social communication in Japan. Paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual meeting held at San Francisco, August 30 to September 2, 2001(http://papers.tcnj.edu/abstracts/096/096003IkedaKenic.htm).
  

• Social capital and social communication : Political participation and tolerance. Paper prepared for the Public Choice Society annual meeting held at San Diego, March 22to 24, 2002.

• The differential effect of a multi-party (predominantly one-party) versus a two-party system on the relationship between social network and voting behavior: An analysis of the 2001 Japanese House of Councilors and 2000 US presidential elections. Paper submitted for International Political Science Association 19^th Congress in Durban , South Africa (session GP4-92  Political Party Systems, Public Attitude, and Democracy at June 30, 2003).

• Agreement and disagreement in democratic politics: Deliberation among citizens in Germany, Japan, and the United States (with Huckfeldt, Robert (first author) and Pappi, Franz). Paper Prepared for delivery at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28 - August 31, 2003 .

• Influence of Social Capital on Political Participation in Asian Cultural Context. (co-authored with Yasuo Yamada, and Masaru Kohno).Paper submitted for a presentation in East Asia Barometer Conference held at Taipei   December 8-9, 2003.

• Some preliminary analysis of the 2003 Japanese House of Representative election and Internet use. Japan-Korea Forum (Team on civic society), Paper submitted for a workshop held at Busan, Korea, December, 20-22, 2003.

•  Institutional effect or political cultural effect?: Myth and mis-conceptualization of Japanese (and Asian?) political behavior. Symposium on "Family, School, & Organization in Korea and Japan", 20 February, 2004 at Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University, Seoul.

• Social capital and values: Meaning of uncertainty avoidance value in the Pacific Rim countries (with Yasuo Yamada). Paper prepared for presentation at an international conference "Citizens, democracy, and markets around the Pacific Rim", held at East-west Center, Honolulu, Hawaii on March 19-20, 2004.
  

•  The Japanese Experience; from Proportional representation to Uninominal. In the House of Representatives of Mexico at 1st April, 2004, Mexico City as a symposium on "Parliamentary design (rules) and governability: A comparative approach". 

• Social construction of reality: An empirical study using a Japanese national survey. Focusing on Interpersonal Environment The social foundations underlying our understanding of this world: How shared reality is constructed through the act of communication, Invited Symposium 2051, International Congress of Psychology (ICP) 2004 held at Beijing, August 10, 2004.

• The State of Democracy in Asia, Organized by The Asian Barometer Hosted by King Prajadhipok's Institute Co-sponsored by Taiwan Foundation for Democracy & The Asia Foundation October 21, 2005, Bangkok, Thailand.

• Making democracy work via functioning of heterogeneous personal networks: Empirical analyses based on Japanese election study (with Tetsuro Kobayashi). Paper prepared for the "International Social Capital Conference: Institutions, Organizations and Communities" held at Tunghai University in Taiwan on December 12-14, 2004.

• The Dark Side of Social Capital---Intolerance and Social Networks in Japan. Nith Annual Asian Studies Conference Japan(ASCJ) conference at Sophia University, Tokyo, 18-19 June, 2005.

• Ikeda, K. 2005 Another Koizumi's Popularity?: Japanese Election in 2005, Paper prepared for International Conference on Taiwan's Election and Democratization Study 2005: Cross-national Survey Studies. Held at Academia Sinica, Taipei, 12 November, 2005.

• Ikeda, K. 2006 Recent Japanese Elections with CSES2 data: Based on JES III project. Paper prepared for the Conference on the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES), at Hotel Hesperia Sevilla, Seville , Spain March 28-29, 2006 .

• Ikeda, K. 2006 Social network, vote and participation in Japan : An empirical study using a Japanese national survey. Paper prepared for the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) workshop 23: The Role Of Political Discussion In Modern Democracies, Nicosia , Cyprus . April 2006.

• Ikeda, Ken'ichi (2006) “Does Internet Use Lead to Political Participation without Bias and Digital Divide? Accumulation of Social Capital Using the Media: The Case of Japan”, Paper prepared for International Political Science Association Meeting, Fukuoka, Japan, July 2006.

• Ikeda, Ken'ichi (2006) “Policy Understanding and Voting Behavior: The Impact of the Postal Reform on Japanese Voters.” Paper prepared for American Political Science Association held at Philladelphia. September, 2006.

• Ikeda, K. (2006) "Social network and voting behavior in reference to a differential effect of a multi-party versus a two-party system : With a comparison between Japan and US Election data. "Electoral systems and Electoral Politics. Bangalore Workshop and Planning Committee Meeting held at Bangalore, India in 2-4 November, 2006.

• Ikeda, Ken'ichi, Liu, James, & Kobayashi, Tetsuro (2007) "The effect of social network diversity vs. homogeneity on Political Participation in Japan and Taiwan". Paper prepared for the Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology, held at Kotakinabaru, July, 2007.

• Ikeda, Ken'ichi, & Kobayashi, Tetsuro (2007) "The influence of social capital on political participation in the cultural context of Asia". Paper submitted for a presentation in East Asia Barometer Conference held at Taipei, August 9-10, 2007.

• Ikeda, Ken'ichi (2008) "The Effects of Network Social Capital on Personal and Collective Outcomes in Japan: The JGSS 2003 Dataset," Paper prepared for a conference on social capital held in May 29-30, 2008 at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Ikeda, Ken'ichi, & Kobayashi, Tetsuro (2008) "Social capital as a pan-cultural determinant of the consolidation of democracy: Results from the second wave of the Asian Barometer Survey." Paper submitted for a presentation in Asian Barometer Conference held at Taipei. June 22-23, 2008.

• Ikeda, Ken'ichi (2009) Populistic Koizumi years and thereafter: Japanese Elections in the early 21th Century based on Japanese Election Studies. Invited talk at the Department of Political Science, Georgia State University. Mar 16. 2008.

• Ikeda, Ken'ichi (2009) "A latitude theory of political party support and meaningful choice: Analyses from Japanese elections from 1996 to 2007".  Paper presented at IPSA 21st World Congress at Santiago, Chile.

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* Mediated Communication and New Media;
(Books)

• New Media and Social Life, The University of Tokyo Press, (in Japanese with I. Takeuchi, et al.), 1990.

• Social Psychology of Electronic Networking, Seishin Shobo, (in Japanese with Y. Kawakami, Y. Kawaura, & Y. Furukawa), 1993. Winner of the Award on TELECOM Social Science 1994.

• Multi-Channelization and Audience Behavior: Comparative Study on US., UK, & Japan, The University of Tokyo Press, (in Japanese with I. Takeuchi, et al.), 1993.

• Networking Community, University of Tokyo Press (in Japanese, Editor), 1997.

• Technology and human nature: IT and civilization, NTT Publisher (in Japanese. As a editor and contributor), 2004.

• Internet Community and Daily Social World, Seishin Shobo (in Japanese, Editor), 2005.

• Miyata, Kakuko, Boarse, Jeffrey, Wellman, Barry, & Ikeda, Ken'ichi (2005) The mobile-izing Japanese: Connecting to the Internet by PC and Webphone in Yamanashi. (In) Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, & Misa Matsuda (Eds.) Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp.43-164.(published also in Japanese).

• Kakuko Miyata & Ken'ichi Ikeda (2008) Mobile internet, social capital and civic engagement in Japan. (In) Maren Hartmann, Patrick Roessler, & Joachim R. Hoeflich (Eds.) After the Mobile Phone? Social Changes and the Development of Mobile Communication. Berlin, Germany: Frank & Timme. Pp.153-169.

(Journals)

• "'Hi-OVIS' Seen by Users: Use & valuation of Japanese interactive CATV", Studies of Broadcasting, No.21, Pp.95-120, 1985.

• "Basic Theory on Information Behavior"(in Japanese), The Annals of the Association of Information and Communication Research, 27-50, 1988.

• "Information Behavior and Man-Machine Interface"(in Japanese), The Annals of the Association of Information and Communication Research, 18-45, 1989.

• "A Social Psychological Approach to the Networked Reality", IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E77-D, 1390-1396, 1994.

• Kobayashi, Tetsuro, Ikeda, Ken'ichi, & Miyata, Kakuko (2006) Social Capital Online: Collective Use of the Internet and Reciprocity as Lubricants of Democracy. Information, Communication and Society, 9, 582-611.

• Kobayashi, Tetsuro, Ikeda, Ken'ichi, & Miyata, Kakuko (2006) "Social Capital Online: Collective Use of the Internet and Reciprocity as Lubricants of Democracy". Information, Communication and Society.

• Kakuko Miyata，Ken'ichi Ikeda, and Tetsuro Kobayashi (forthcoming) The Internet, Social Capital, Civic Engagement, and Gender in Japan. (In) Nan Lin and Bonnie H. Erickson (Eds.) Social Capital: Advances in Research.

• Kobayashi, T. & Ikeda, K. (2008 in press) "Selective exposure in political web browsing: Empirical verification of 'cyber-balkanization' in Japan and the U.S." Information, Communication & Society.

(Presentations)

• "Use and valuation of Hi-OVIS, Paper presented at the Panel Session : CATV and local communities in Japan", 35th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, held at Hawaii, 1985.

• "A social psychological approach to the study on electronic community", Paper presented at the XXV International Congress of Psychology held at Brussells, 19-24 July,1992.

• "A social psychological approach to the networked reality", Paper presented at the 1st International Workshop on Networked Reality held at Tokyo, 13-14 May, 1994.

• "Virtual Communication : How the subjective definition of networked society matters?" with Y. Shibanai Proceedings for the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Networked Realities held in Boston, USA, October, 1995, Pp.159-174.

• "'Buggy' Pentium inside!: How the news diffused in the networked world" with Y. Shibanai Proceedings for the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Networked Realities held in Boston, USA, October, 1995, Pp.175-188.

• "Communicating/Sharing Reality in Natural Settings". Paper presented at the SMC IEEE '99 Workshop on social aspects of knowledge and memory held at Tokyo, October 1999.

•  The Social Implications of Internet Use in Japan:Collective use of Internet can be a Lubricant of Democracy (co-authored with Tetsuro Kobayashi, and Kakuko, Miyata). Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 4.0 Toronto 2003: “Broadening the Band”, October 16-19, 2003.

• Japanese Lineage users in group context. paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Research Institute for Human Behavior, Yonsei University, Seoul, held at 8-th October, 2003.

• Japanese & Korean Lineage Users in Group Context: Social capital interpretation, Paper prepared for the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 5 in the University of Sussex, England, 22 Sept.2004.

* Other Studies;
(Journals)

• "Warning of disaster & evacuation behavior in a Japanese chemical fire", Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol.7, Pp.51-62, 1982.

• "Human response to disasters", (with S. Mikami), International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters, Vol.3, Pp.107-132, 1985.

• Allen, Michael W., Ng, Sik Hung, Ikeda, Ken'ichi, Jawan, Jayum A., Sufi, Anwarul H., Wilson, Marc, & Yang, Kuo-Shu 2007 Two decades of change in cultural values and economic development in eight East Asian and Pacific Island nations. Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology, 38(3), 247-269.
  
  (Presentations)
  "Risk perception & human information-processing: Perspectives from communication processing & information environment", Proceedings of the 2nd Japan- U. S. workshop on risk assessment/risk management, Pp.551-557, 1988.

• "A cognitive model of feeling & emotion", Paper presented at the 22nd conference of the International Congress of Applied Psychology, held at Kyoto, July 22-27, 1990.

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