Charles McClean
@cmcclean
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📚 Assistant Professor of Political Science @Yale 👦🏻👨🏻👴🏻 Politics of Age 🇯🇵 Japanese Politics
New Haven, CT
Joined March 2009
🚨 New Paper w/ @YoshikuniOno, conditionally accepted @PolBehavior 🎉 Why are elected officials often much older than voters? We use age manipulation software to uncover voters' age biases. Surprise: Voters (even older ones) like young candidates! 👦🏻👨🏻👴🏻 https://t.co/FHZkU8xNRM
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Looking forward to hosting Andrew Oros (@AsiaProf @washcoll @StimsonCenter) on Monday (Nov. 10) as the next speaker in our #Japan series @YaleMacMillan. He'll discuss his exciting new book on Asia's aging security: https://t.co/6TBhqU17II
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At 34, Zohran Mamdani is New York's youngest mayor in over a century. Over 2 million people voted—the most since 1969—fueled in part by strong youth turnout.
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John Purroy Mitchel, known as the “Boy Mayor,” was three months older than Zohran Mamdani is now when he won office in 1913.
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Up next in our @ISPSYale Population Studies Workshop: Daniel Schneider (@Kennedy_School @HarvardSoc @Shift_HKS) joins us this Friday (Nov. 7). https://t.co/gydXraL9DQ
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🚨Post-Doc Hiring 🚨@ZLiscow @ProfSchleich & I are hiring postdocs for a new Yale State Capacity and Economic Dynamism Center at @ISPSYale. Open to candidates from political science, economics, political economy, public policy, or law. More details below
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Grateful for the opportunity to join @youthful_dem at the Tokyo District Court last Friday. While they lost the case to lower Japan’s age of candidacy to 18, their continued efforts to make politics more accessible to young people are truly inspiring.
判決報告会で記念撮影📸✨ 当日ご参加の皆さま、YouTube視聴の皆さま、ありがとうございます！ 今後は控訴審に向かいます。18歳以上の国民に立候補する自由が保障される社会に向けて、私たちはこれからも歩みを続けていきます🕊️ 引き続きの応援をよろしくお願いします✊ #立候補年齢を引き下げよう
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Takaichi's cabinet is a bit younger (avg. age: 59) than Ishiba's outgoing one (avg. age: 63), though both include just three members under 50. So, at least from a youth and women's representation standpoint, it's interesting how similar the two pictures look...
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As Japan's first female prime minister, Takaichi has appointed Katayama as the first female finance minister. Yet only two cabinet members are women—unchanged from Ishiba's outgoing cabinet. Not quite the "Nordic levels" of women's representation that Takaichi campaigned on...
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For the next talk in our new @ISPSYale Population Studies Workshop, we're delighted to welcome @DeborahCarr723 @BU_CISS on October 20. https://t.co/uIw1aSuWyq
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I spoke with @thedispatch for this story on Takaichi, which also features great insights from Christina Davis @HarvardUSJapan @solis_msolis @KristiGovella and Sheila Smith @CFR_org
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Sanae Takaichi is set to inherit a Japan reshaped by inflation, weak growth, and political turnover.
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Looks like the APSA poll had it backward—Takaichi, not Koizumi, won the leadership election to become the first female LDP president, and presumably Japan’s first female PM.
At APSA on Sept 12, the Japan Political Studies Group ran a poll on who will be the next PM. 27 scholars voted: 🥇 Koizumi Shinjiro - 14 🥈 Takaichi Sanae - 8 Others - 5 We'll see if the group got it right when the LDP picks its president (and presumably the next PM) tomorrow.
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At APSA on Sept 12, the Japan Political Studies Group ran a poll on who will be the next PM. 27 scholars voted: 🥇 Koizumi Shinjiro - 14 🥈 Takaichi Sanae - 8 Others - 5 We'll see if the group got it right when the LDP picks its president (and presumably the next PM) tomorrow.
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地方自治体の首長は、CEOのようなもので、若い首長が選出されると教育や子育て等の分野に予算が割かれることが研究でも明らかにされています。彼らの功績を称えることで、その影響力を広く知って頂くとともに、多くの優秀な若い方がこの意義ある道を志して下さることを祈ってやみません。
米日財団は、革新的な自治の手法を実践する45歳未満の市長を顕彰する「若手市長賞」の第1回目の受賞者に、岐阜県美濃加茂市の藤井浩人市長 (@Hiroto_Minokamo) を選出しました。10月29日の授賞式への皆さまのご参加を心よりお待ちしております。 https://t.co/bvyjpObujq
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日本の若手首長を応援する新しい取り組みに参加し、@linkobayashi、@kumagai_chiba とともに審査員を務めることができて光栄です。 初代受賞者となられた @Hiroto_Minokamo に心よりお祝い申し上げます。10月29日に東京で開催される授賞式を楽しみにしております。
米日財団は、革新的な自治の手法を実践する45歳未満の市長を顕彰する「若手市長賞」の第1回目の受賞者に、岐阜県美濃加茂市の藤井浩人市長 (@Hiroto_Minokamo) を選出しました。10月29日の授賞式への皆さまのご参加を心よりお待ちしております。 https://t.co/bvyjpObujq
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Excited to be part of this new initiative recognizing young mayors in Japan, and to serve on the award jury with @linkobayashi and @kumagai_chiba. Looking forward to attending the 10/29 ceremony in Tokyo, and congrats to @Hiroto_Minokamo on being the inaugural award winner!
We are thrilled to announce that Mayor Hiroto Fujii (@Hiroto_Minokamo) of Minokamo City, Gifu, is the recipient of USJF’s inaugural Young Mayors of Japan Award—honoring U45 leaders with innovative approaches to governance. Join us to celebrate on Oct 29. https://t.co/lUjrXMccvV
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🚨 We’re hiring! Yale Sociology is searching for a Senior Quantitative Sociologist to join our department. This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future of quantitative social science at Yale. The search committee is chaired by Nicholas Christakis, with Johan Ugander
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At APSA, @cmcclean and I presented a paper. In Japanese municipal assembly elections, ties sometimes occur; in such cases, the winner is determined by lottery. We show that the incumbency effects estimated from lottery elections are different from those estimated by RDD.
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We had an overflow room today!!! What an amazing turnout today — standing room only! We’re thrilled to see this growing community come together. Can’t wait to see you at the next one!
Delighted to welcome James Raymo @Princeton to @yale today to kick off two series: - Launch of the Population Studies Workshop @ISPSYale - New year of the Japan series @YaleMacMillan His talk focuses on divorce, remarriage, and fertility in #Japan. https://t.co/ut4pOJSYH4
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Delighted to welcome James Raymo @Princeton to @yale today to kick off two series: - Launch of the Population Studies Workshop @ISPSYale - New year of the Japan series @YaleMacMillan His talk focuses on divorce, remarriage, and fertility in #Japan. https://t.co/ut4pOJSYH4
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選挙で当選ギリギリのところで、複数の候補者が同じ票数で並ぶと、クジで当選者を決めるのですが、クジで勝った候補者も負けた候補者も次の選挙で勝つ確率は全く同じなので、現職優位は見られないと言う論文を、アメリカ政治学会で報告しました。
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With Ishiba resigning, Japan is set to have its 4th new PM in 5 years. Notably, his minority coalition hasn't been unusually short by comparative standards—at 343 days so far, it's longer than the 327-day average in Europe (per our study). https://t.co/jUYEr1hBS6
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Despite decades of scholarship on coalition bargaining in parliamentary democracies, minority governments remain a puzzle. From the 1970s on, cross-national empirical scholarship has shown minority...
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