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KOBORI Masahiro

Department / Course College of Law Department of Law

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Law

Academic background
1.	～1992/09	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Public Law │ Graduate School of Law │ Osaka City University │ Accomplished credits for doctoral program
2.	2007/03/23 Degree Acquisition	PhD Osaka City University
3.	1982/04/01～1986/03/31	Faculty of Laws │ Ritsumeikan University │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2013/08/30 ～ 2014/03/31	Visiting Professor │ │ Griffith University, Brisbane,
2.	2009/09/18 ～ 2010/03/18	Advanced Visiting Fellow │ the Department of Politics, │ Sheffield University, UKResearcher
3.	2003/04/01	Professor │ Faculty of Law, │ Ritsumeikan University,
4.	1999/08/30 ～ 2000/09/30	Visiting Fellow │ │ the University of Essex,
5.	1996/04/01 ～ 2003/03/31	AssociateProfessor │ Faculty of Law, │ Ritsumeikan University,

Research activities
1.		Japanese Political Science Association
2.		Japan Association for Comparative Politics
3.		Japanese Association of Electoral Studies
4.		Study on British Politics in Japan
5.		International Political Science Association
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Subject of research
1.	Comparatie research on paliamentary politics
2.	Study on the third party in Britain
3.	Study on the Thatcher Government
4.	Study on Party Politics in U.K.

Research summary
British Modern Politics, European Politics, and Comparative Politics The Westminster Model (government system of the UK), which has been considered as the model for the manifesto-based approach to politics, the two-‎party system and the execution of the dissolution right by prime minister, has changed into heavily decentralized one over the past 20 years, causing an ‎inevitable abolition of the dissolution right of prime minister under the coalition government. Furthermore, that Japan is the only country that has the ‎system most prone to twisting, having an election system under which the house of representatives and the house of councilors hold separate elections, is ‎least known for now. Comparative study on Japan's politics and constitution is significantly lagged behind, and such study on parliament in other countries is ‎based not only on the existing constitution and other laws, but also on numerous customs. In addition, authorities given to the parliamentary speaker of ‎these countries and his or her staff and their active role are not sufficiently known. My study has been focusing on these points recently.‎

Present specialized field
Politics (Keyword：British Modern Politics, European Politics, and Comparative Politics)

Books
1.	2023/09/20	Comparative Political Institutions: Learning from History │ (Sole-authored)
2.	2017/08/16	Australasia, │ Matt Qvortrup (ed) Referendums around the World │ (Co-authored)
3.	2014/05	Referendums in Asia, │ Matt Qvortrup (ed) Referendums around the World. │ ,pp.Referendums in Asia" 207-217 (Sole-authored)
4.	2013/06	Kokkai Kaizouron [The Proposal of Diet Reform: the Constitutio,Divided Diet,and Electoral System] │ ,pp.1-270 (Sole-authored)
5.	2012/07	Westminster Model no Henyou [The Transformation of Westminster Model: Review on Westminsterisation in Japanese Politics] │ ,pp.1-318 (Sole-authored)
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Papers
1.	2022/07	Singular Belief About Separate Bicameral Elections in Japan: A Comparison with Australian Simultaneous Elections │ (40),pp.19-40 (Sole-authored)
2.	2020/05	A review of two beliefs of parliamentary government in postwar Japan: Japanese/French beliefs beneath the British canopy, │ International Journal of Constitutional Law │ 18 (1),pp.147 - 172 (Sole-authored)
3.	2016	The Difference between “Normal Countries” in the 1990s and the 2010s: “Civic” Ozawa and “Ethnic” Abe? │ Michael Heazle and Andrew O'Neil ed, Asia Pacific Papers: 5th Annual Australia-Japan Dialogue │ (Sole-authored)
4.	2014/09	min cui zhu yi zai ying guo he ri ben de zheng zhi hua yu : ren ren zi bao , yi mian luo hou │ Foreign Theoretical Trends │ 2014 (9),pp.45-53 (Sole-authored)
5.	2013/11	Nejire ha mata Kuru ['Divided Diet' shall come again: the time to reform Diet, now] │ Bungeishunju the 100 issues in 2014 │ ,pp.102-103 (Sole-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2019/10/07	A Japanese Version of ‘Westminster model’: The Belief of ‘Decisive Lower House’ in the Democratic Party of Japan and its Genealogy (The Significance of the Interpretive Approach in Japanese Political Studies, Panel, the Conference of the Japanese Political Science Association.)
2.	2018/07/25	The Review on Two Beliefs of Parliamentary Government in the Post-war Japanese Constitutional Study: Japanese/French Beliefs beneath the British Canopy (The 25th IPSA World Congress of Political Science)
3.	2017/09/26	Separate Bicameral Elections: A Comparison of Japan and Australia (the Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference)
4.	2015/12/10	The Difference between “Normal Countries” in the 1990s and the 2010s: “Civic” Ozawa and “Ethnic” Abe? (Session 3: Executive Influence and Accountability in Security Policy Making and Implementation, The 5th Annual Australia-Japan Dialogue: Policy Convergence and Divergence in Australia and Japan: Assessing Identity Shift within the Bi-Lateral Relationship)
5.	2013/10/25	Divided Diets in Japan since 2007: discrepancy between belief for Westminster and institutional facts (Centre for Governance and Public Policy Seminar, Griffith University, Australia.)
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Other research achievements
1.	2009/12/17	The Development of Marxism in Recent Years. (China Social Science Network)

Teaching achievements

●Presentation about Teaching

1.	2010/05 ～ 2010/05	I attended some modules in the University of Sheffield last year. I wrote an article about such experiences in NewsLetter in Ritsumeikan University.

Message
1.	Research on the British Politics My recent research interest is the comparative research on political institutions, in particular Japanese, British and Australian systems, because our political system had a lot of influences from the British one when the Constitution of Japan 1947 was enacted. Also our county adopted the bicameral system which is, as a result, similar to the Australian one although researchers in Japan have never had such knowledges. So I would try to compare with those countries' examples.

External Researcher ID
ORCID ID
0000-0001-6322-5387