Kostya Ovsiannikov
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Kostya Ovsiannikov
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🇺🇦 assistant prof. at Kochi University of Technology (KUT) |
political economy | labor economics | experimental economics | 🇯🇵 studies
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Where the world’s discontented fight, rural Japan picks the same party. As @hajent.bsky.social sky.social‬ & @kovsiannikov.com show in JEPOP#populismsm thrives on absence. I#Japan’s™s declining towns, the state never left, with subsidies & social ties guaranteeing stability.doi.org/10.1080/1745...95
July 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
📢 New publication with @hajent.bsky.social @JEPOP.
"In decline, but not left behind? Electoral behavior in Japan's depopulating regions":

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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In decline, but not left behind? Electoral behavior in Japan's depopulating regions
In Europe and the US, regional inequalities have been linked to growing electoral support for right-wing populist parties. In contrast, Japan's rapidly shrinking rural areas have continued to suppo...
www.tandfonline.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM