Yusaku Horiuchi

5/6 🧵In @bjpols.bsky.social, Cho, @miacosta.bsky.social & @yusakuhoriuchi.bsky.social study trade-offs between descriptive & partisan representation for Asian-Americans. Clear preference for partisanship over ethnicity. True co-ethnics preferred over pan-ethnic & cross-ethnic. doi.org/qtv8

@bjpols.bsky.social New Open Access article in the BJPS
cup.org/45Y91Bz. Examine how Asian Americans weigh descriptive vs. partisan representation—and demonstrate the value of "choice-level" conjoint analysis (see forthcoming AJPS: gking.harvard.edu/conjointE). Earlier version = Cho’s honors thesis!

New working paper: "To Compare or Not to Compare: Testing the Effects of Profile Comparison in Conjoint Analysis" (with Martha Johnson). Key takeaway: when theory is comparative, analysis should be at the choice level.

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Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...

An interesting way to reduce affective polarization!

doi.org/10.1126/scie...

New OA article w/ @shirokuriwaki.bsky.social and @profdansmith.bsky.social. Q. Why does Japan’s LDP stay dominant even when its policies aren’t preferred? A: valence > policy. Check it out here ➡️ [http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/100.00024134] #PoliSci #Japan #Elections

It’s been years of collaboration, hard work, and innovation — and we’re excited to finally share our software with you!

Thank you, Minseon!

Thank you, Jeremy!

I’m truly excited about the new opportunities and challenges that await me in a new environment.

When you have a chance, please visit us in Tallahassee, Florida. We would love to welcome you and stay connected in this next chapter.

I am deeply grateful for all that Dartmouth has given me and my family over the past 13 years. At the same time, I believe this is the right moment to take the next step—both professionally and personally.

Today was Dartmouth College’s Commencement. Congratulations to the Class of 2026!

I would also like to share that this was my final commencement at Dartmouth. Beginning in August, I will assume a new role as the Syde P. Deeb Eminent Scholar Chair at Florida State University.

The Experimental Research section of the American Political Science Association (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social) invites research proposals from post-prospectus PhD students for its Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship program. Share this post! @apsa.bsky.social, @poscresearch.bsky.social

I just booked domestic flights and a car rental online. I checked the price using the web browser in both normal and incognito modes. I could save about $500 by using the latter! Using incognito mode is always beneficial, as the AI-based dynamic pricing model does not rely on purchasing history!

PNAS Marketing team has featured our recently published PNAS Nexus research article across our social media platforms!

US Visa Applications from Japan Now Require Disclosing Social Media History According to a recent announcement, all US visa applicants from Japan must include info on all SNS accounts used within the last five years.

www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/n...

Stricter penalties now apply for noncompliance. Failure to report a change of address within 10 days may be considered a deportable offense unless the noncitizen can prove the failure was not willful or was reasonably excusable.

Under Executive Order 14159, issued on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration significantly increased enforcement of the legal requirement for immigrants to file the “Alien’s Change of Address Card” (Form AR-11). Stricter penalties now apply for noncompliance.e.

If you're a non-citizen living in the U.S. and planning to move, read this thread:

New in PNAS Nexus :
🇺🇸 U.S. democratic backsliding hurts its image abroad
🤝 But it doesn’t erode foreign policy cooperation—yet. Tested this via survey experiments in 12 countries (N = 11,810)
📄 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
#Democracy #USPolitics #PublicOpinion #ForeignPolicy

The Masters: Georgia Tech golfer Hiroshi Tai making his debut Hiroshi Tai is only the fifth amateur from Georgia Tech to compete in the Masters.

🏌️‍♂️ The Masters Tournament kicks off today!! Please join me in cheering on my nephew, Hiroshi Tai. Let’s go, Hiroshi!! 🌟⛳💪 #TheMasters, #prouduncle

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That's so good to hear, Brendan! Thank you!

Nominate your/others' great research! And please share this post widely!

#polisky

A postdoc position at Dartmouth! The deadline is approaching. Please share this link with anyone who may be interested in this position. apply.interfolio.com/160584

GitHub - yhoriuchi/smd_aggregator: Make SMD level demographic and local finance data Make SMD level demographic and local finance data. Contribute to yhoriuchi/smd_aggregator development by creating an account on GitHub.

Please feel free to use the following data to aggregate basic demographic and fiscal statistics at the level of single-member districts used in Japan's 2017, 2021, and 2024 Lower House elections. github.com/yhoriuchi/sm...

All data are from the original Excel files on the Ministry of Home Affairs websites. For analysis, you will need some more wrangling.

I also plan to download municipal-level Upper House election data and may create a webpage to host these datasets in CSV and RDS formats. Stay tuned!

GitHub - yhoriuchi/jelec2017lh: Download, wrangle, and save municipality-level results of the 2017 House of Representatives Election in Japan Download, wrangle, and save municipality-level results of the 2017 House of Representatives Election in Japan - yhoriuchi/jelec2017lh

If you are interested in analyzing municipality-level results from recent House of Representatives elections in Japan, please feel free to use the data available at the links below:

github.com/yhoriuchi/je...
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Doing well by doing good: foreign aid improves opinions of the U.S. A U.S. aid program specifically targeted to address the problems of HIV and AIDS has improved perceptions of the United States among the public in recipient countries.

Please share our old article for The Monkey Cage (now Good Authority) -- with Ben Goldsmith and Terence Wood. www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-...

U.S. foreign aid helps the United States in many ways. U.S. foreign aid is a soft power tool, serving an important diplomatic function. That's what the research shows.

goodauthority.org/news/ending-...

Thank you, Matt, for mentioning our paper (with Ben Goldsmith and Terence Wood) on the impact of PEPFAR on attitudes toward the US.

2024 Summary (as of Dec 21, 2024):

(1) Journal Article Submissions
23 rejections (including 10 desk rejections)
3 invitations for revise & resubmit (R&R)
0 acceptances

(2) Journal Reviews Completed
40 reviews

(3) Grant Applications Submitted
4 declined
0 acceptances