Takaharu Saito

Economics Assistant Professor

Biography

Takaharu Saito received his Ph.D. in Law from the University of Tokyo. He was Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1), and Project Researcher at the University of Tokyo before assuming his current position. He specializes in political science, and his research focuses on the presidency and bureaucracy in Japan and the United States.

Research Interests

Presidency, Bureaucracy

Final Education

Ph.D., The University of Tokyo

Awards & Honours

(2024) Special Award for Outstanding Dissertation. Graduate School for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo

Academic Papers

Takaharu Saito (2024) Indirect Control of Bureaucracy through Horizontal Interagency Coordination and the U.S. President's Policymaking. PhD Dissertation for Graduate School for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
Takaharu Saito (2024) Female Legislators Decrease Epidemic Deaths. Discover Public Health
Takaharu Saito (2024) Legislative Incapacity and Underreporting of COVID-19 Mortality. Preventive Medicine Reports 41
Takaharu Saito (2023) The Transformation of the President's Use of Interagency Coordination in the 1960s-80s. Pacific and American Studies 23 :1346-2989
Takaharu Saito (2022) Policymaking in Crisis: Interagency Coordination or Whitehouse-led Coordination. Public Administration Review Quarterly (179)
Takaharu Saito (2022) Sentiment Analysis of the Economic Report of the President in the United States. The Japanese Journal of Behaviormetrics 49 (2)

Grants

(2024) Does Violent Partisanship Regress Democratic Politics?: An Examination of the Existence and Effects of Violent Partisanship in Japan. Japan Society for Promotion of Science Co-researcher
(2024) Political Tectonic Shifts in Contemporary America: Party Realignment and Policy Convergence. Japan Society for Promotion of Science Co-researcher
(2023) Empirical Analysis of Checks and Balances in Japanese City Politics. Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Primary Researcher
(2023) Japanese Association for American Studies Travel Grant. Japanese Association for American Studies Primary Researcher
(2022) Travel Grant for "Controlling Bureaucracy as Congress Demands?". American Political Science Association, Primary Researcher
(2022) Travel Grant for "Controlling Bureaucracy as Congress Demands?”. American Studies Foundation, Primary Researcher
(2020) Why American Presidents Fail to Control Bureaucracy?. Japan Society for Promotion of Science Primary Researcher
(2020) Travel Grant for “Presidents’ Use of Interagency Coordination to Supervise Less Aligned agencies”. American Studies Foundation Primary Researcher