Yasushi Asako

POLITICAL ANALYSIS

Putin ordered to kill Navalny, because Putin is unpopular, feared but unloved. Navalny was able to draw tens of thousands to dangerous protests; Putin was not - to safe support meetings. Putin feared Navalny's popularity among regular police, security, and armed forces. 1/

Another sad news on this very bad day. Dmitry Markov, a master of photography, a chronicler of the Russian daily life, died today. One of his world-famous pieces was a symbolic photo from a Russian court room.

Generational talent Alexei Navalny is dead, murdered by the man whose corruption and brutality he dared to contest. — How is it, I sometimes hear from friends or relatives here, that in a country of 300 million we can…

I wrote a few words to try to process the murder of Alexei Navalny.

Hello, gorgeous!

(The HPE Oxford Handbook is out! Thanks to Jeff Jenkins and @jaredcrubin.com for organizing)

Now officially a field.

Jan 31 is the submission deadline for SIOE 2024 in Chicago. Grad students will receive a 50% discount on registration fees; low-cost housing is also available. Please apply!

WP is out. This is a laboratory experiment on belief polarization, a type of opinion polarization.

There are two treatments: showing the entire payoff structure or having subjects calculate it, and the latter revealed that the size of polarization was larger.

dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Analyzing Electoral Promises with Game Theory Electoral promises help to win votes and political candidates, or parties should strategically choose what they can deliver to win an election. Past game-theoretical studies tend to ignore electoral p...

My book. If you like, you can read it.

www.routledge.com/Analyzing-El...