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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · 23d

2025 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (September 11-14, 2025@Vancouver)

Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Jul 31

Glad to see my paper with Hirofumi Miwa, titled “Do Politicians’ Genders Influence Voter Persuasion?”, has now been published online (open access) in @polcommjournal.bsky.social!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Do Politicians’ Genders Influence Voter Persuasion?

Voter preferences for a politician’s gender have been considered a potential factor of women’s underrepresentation in politics. Although recent studies demonstrate that voters do not generally disl...

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Jul 18

IPSA World Congress of Political Science (July 13-16, 2025@Seoul)

My flight was canceled due to a lightning strike, which caused me to stay in South Korea for an extra day…

Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Jul 16

We're hiring! The Graduate School of Social Sciences at Hitotsubashi University is seeking a non-tenure track lecturer. The application deadline is August 31, 2025 (JST). For more information, see: jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJor...

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Jul 6

JSQPS 2025 Summer Meeting (July 5-6@Doshisha University, Kyoto)

I attended the meeting as a member of the organizing committee. Thank you to everyone who participated in the meeting (and visited my poster presentation)!

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · May 27

My paper with Akira Igarashi and Masahiro Zenkyo, titled「オンラインサーベイ実験における調査会社効果の検証」("Investigating the House Effects in Online Survey Experiments"), has been published in『選挙研究』. I hope anyone interested in doing survey experiments in Japan will take a look at it!

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · May 18

Japanese Association for Electoral Studies annual meeting (May 17-18, 2025@Keio University Mita campus)

It was my first (and probably last) time speaking at a plenary session...!

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · May 14

My co-authored paper on belief in voter fraud in the 2022 US midterm elections is now published with issue and page numbers! (And it's open access!)
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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Apr 15

I attended this program in 2024 at APSA and learned a lot. The 2025 edition looks like it will be exciting as well!
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2025 Working Group

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Apr 8

Call for Proposals for the JSPQS 2025 Summer Meeting. I'm serving as a member of the organizing committee and look forward to receiving many submissions!
sites.google.com/view/jsqps/2...

JSQPS - 2025 Summer Meeting

計量・数理政治学会（JSQPS）2025年夏季研究集会報告募集 (English message follows Japanese) 計量・数理政治学会 (The Japanese Society for Quantitative Political Science, JSQPS, https://sites.google.com/view/jsqps/) の2025年夏季研究集会における報告者...

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Apr 7

82nd Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference (April 3-6, 2025@Palmer House Hilton, Chicago)

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Jan 10

Report on the joint program of APSA and JPSA that I attended last summer:
doi.org/10.1017/psj....

APSA Support for Civically Engaged Researchers in Japan and the United States | Political Science Today | Cambridge Core

APSA Support for Civically Engaged Researchers in Japan and the United States - Volume 4 Issue 4

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Jan 8

I had a great experience serving as a TA for the ICPSR summer program when I was a PhD student. I recommend interested grad students to apply for this position.

ICPSR Summer Program @icpsrsummer.bsky.social · Jan 8

The ICPSR Summer Program is now hiring teaching assistants to help with our 40+ General Session classes. Applications are due Jan. 31, 2025. Please see our listing at myumi.ch/23Gy2 for more details and to apply.
#SumProg25 #TeachingAssistant #HigherEdJobs #AcademicJobs

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Dec 31

I feel like I say them every year, but here are the New Year’s resolutions for 2025:
1. Turn as many working projects into papers as possible
2. …then send them out for review
3. Save some time for improving & updating stats skills
4. Brush up my English
5. Maintain a healthy lifestyle

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Dec 16

To promote things I write in Japanese, I also created a Japanese bsky account: @ikumaogurajp.bsky.social

日本語アカウントも作りました

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Oct 6

Annual meeting of the Japanese Political Science Association (October 5-6, 2024@Nagoya University).

Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Sep 27

We're hiring! Hitotsubashi University is recruiting a non-tenure-track lecturer in political science. The application deadline is Nov 10 (JST). For more information, see jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJor.... Please apply!

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Sep 9

Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (September 4-8, 2024; Philadelphia).

I attended this year's conference to participate in the joint working group by the Japanese Political Science Association and @apsa.bsky.social. Thanks to all who made this great opportunity possible!

Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Aug 9

Great to see my paper with Masaki Hata titled “Partisanship, Social Desirability, and Belief in Election Fraud: Evidence from the 2022 US Midterm Elections” is not published online (open access!) at Political Studies Review!
doi.org/10.1177/1478...

Partisanship, Social Desirability, and Belief in Election Fraud: Evidence from the 2022 US Midterm Elections - Masaki Hata, Ikuma Ogura, 2024

After losing the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump publicly asserted that the election was rigged due to voter fraud, and many voters also endorsed this ...

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Aug 1

World Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference (July 29-August 1; Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul)

Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Jun 23

Japan Association for Comparative Politics Annual Meeting (June 22-23, 2024@Ritsumeikan University Ibaraki Campus, Osaka)

Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · May 20

Japanese Association for Electoral Studies Annual Meeting (May 18-19, 2024@Kochi, Japan)

Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Apr 23

Great to see my paper with John W. Cheng, Masaru Nishikawa, and Nicholas A. R. Fraser, "Put money where their mouth is? Willingness to pay for online conspiracy theory content," now published in Telematics and Informatics Reports! (And it's open access!)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Put money where their mouth is? Willingness to pay for online conspiracy theory content

Many studies have examined why people believe in conspiracy theories, yet less is known about why people choose to consume conspiratorial content. Thi…

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Mar 22

Our RIPE paper now has issue and page numbers!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Ikuma Ogura @ikumaogura.bsky.social · Feb 21

CSSJ 2024 (Feb 19-20@Osaka University Nakanoshima Center)