Past Winners

2023 (1 paper)

Mizuho Yasuda
“Under What Conditions Do Interest Groups Succeed at Lobbying: Examining with a Regulatory Reform Issue-Level Data Set”
(2023 Volume 74 Issue 1)

Selection Committee:
Kaoru Iokibe (Chair)

2022 (2 papers)

Akito Yamaguchi
“An Examination of Child’s Suffrage: In Relation to the Critique against Epistocracy”
(2021 Volume 72 Issue 2)

Hae Kim
“Democracy and Freedom of Speech: Does Regulating Speech Erode Democratic Legitimacy?”
(2022 Volume 73 Issue 1)

Selection Committee:
Takeshi Hirata (Chair), Mari Miura, Hidenori Tsutsumi, Masako Suginohara, Takako Imai

2021 (1 paper)

Ryuma Daigo
“Kiyotaka Kuroda and the political movement for the abandonment of Sakhalin: Domestic conflict over the Japan-Russia border problem”
(2021 Volume 72 Issue 1)

Selection Committee:
Tetsuki Tamura (Chair), Masahiro Iwasaki, Masahiko Kaburagi, Hidenori Tsutsumi, Masako Suginohara

2020 (2 papers)

Tetsuya Iseki
“Why does a central government file a suit against a local government with the constitutional court?: Request for constitutional review as an electoral strategy.”
(2020 Volume 71 Issue 1)

Takanori Sueki
“The Process of Establishing Attendance Regulations on Procedure of the Japanese Diet in Meiji era, with special reference to Political Participation of Woman without Votes”
(2020 Volume 71 Issue 1)

Selection Committee:
Shigeki Uno (Chair), Naoko Taniguchi, Yasushi Kondo, Masahiko Kaburagi, Hidenori Tsutsumi

2019 (2 papers)

Dai Oba
“What is Pre-distribution: Policy Agenda and Philosophical Conceptions”
(2018 Volume 69 Issue 2)

Takayuki Matsui
“‘A-political Conservatism’: A Shared Uniqueness in the Thought of Takamaro Hanzawa and Michael Oakeshott”
(2019 Volume 70 Issue 1)

Selection Committee:
Yutaka Onishi (Chair), Ken Endo, Ryota Natori, Yasushi Kondo, Masahiko Kaburagi