表題番号:2013A-976 日付:2014/02/27
研究課題Coalitional Instability and Government Accountability in Comparative Perspective
研究者所属(当時) 資格 氏名
(代表者) 高等研究所 准教授(任期付) Marisa Kellam
研究成果概要
The Waseda University Grant for Special Research Projects (for Newly-Hired Faculty) provided financial support for supplies and travel expenses related to my research on coalitional instability and government accountability. The goal of this project is the publication of a book which explains the role of non-programmatic political parties in electoral and governing coalitions and identifies the characteristics of partisan oppositions in the legislature that tend to strengthen their position as accountability actors relative to presidents in Latin America.

With this goal in mind, during the 2013 fiscal year, I expanded my dataset on Latin American political parties and coalitions to include 12 countries through 2013, and carried out statistical analyses of these data. I presented preliminary results of this research at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in September 2013. I subsequently revised the analyses and edited the related manuscripts. Currently, I have one article-length manuscript that is under review, and much of this material will also appear as a chapter in the book. In addition, I am preparing to submit another co-authored article-length manuscript for review in March 2014. I believe that article publications related to the book will raise interest among publishers in the larger book project. I plan to meet with publishers in August/September 2014.

Finally, I was awarded a KAKENHI grant (Research Activity Start-Up) for the funding period of September 2013 through April 2015 for research that builds upon this project.