Junsuke Matsuura

Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University

Research Project: An Empirical Study of Divided Government in Japan

Junsuke Matsuura is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Keio University. He received his B.A. in Economics, M.A. in Media and Governance, and Ph.D. in Media and Governance from Keio University. His research focuses on the bicameral system in contemporary Japan and provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of how the House of Councillors, as the second chamber, functions within the Japanese political process. For this work, he received the Public Policy Studies Association, Japan award. He has authored numerous works, including Bunretsugikai no Seijigaku [The Politics of the Divided Diet] (Tokyo: Bokutakusha, 2017). At Harvard, drawing on the findings of empirical research on divided government in the United States, he plans to examine postwar Japan’s divided government to investigate theoretically and empirically how the emergence of divided government affects the cabinet’s administration of government.