Ikuma Ogura

I’m happy to see that my paper with Hata-san has been nominated for the Political Studies Review's Best Short-Form Article Prize!

I used the original English version when I served as a TA for the PhD statistics course back in Georgetown, and I’m excited that I’ll be able to use this book when teaching Japanese students as well!

I’m happy to see the printed copy of the Japanese translation of Real Stats by Michael Bailey, who is also my PhD adviser. I’m proud to have had the opportunity to contribute to the project as a translator.

Japanese Society for Quantitative Political Science (JSQPS) 2026 Winter Meeting (January 6-7, 2026@Waseda University)

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...

Our paper on how voters evaluate policy statements by male and female politicians in the U.S. and Japan now has issue and page numbers!
doi.org/10.1080/1058...

New Year’s Resolutions for 2026
1. Send as many working papers as possible to journals for review
2. Save some time to improve and update stats skills
3. Brush up on my English
4. Learn a new language
5. Maintain a healthy lifestyle

Japanese Public Choice Society annual meeting (December 6-7, 2025@The University of Kitakyushu Kitagata campus)

I forgot to take any photos at the conference venue…

2025 WAPOR Asia-Pacific Conference (November 22-23, 2025@Rikkyo University Ikebukuro campus)

Annual meeting of the Japanese Political Science Association (October 11-12, 2025@The University of Tokyo Hongo Campus)

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

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...

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....

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…

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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...

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)!

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!

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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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!)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

2025 Working Group

I attended this program in 2024 at APSA and learned a lot. The 2025 edition looks like it will be exciting as well!
connect.apsanet.org/asia/cer-for...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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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!

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 ...

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...

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

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