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Research Gate & Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science How to pronounce Kohei? Welcome to my website! I am a public management scholar who studies quality of government, government performance, and bureaucrats' behavior and attitudes. I study what factors lead to good quality of government, government performance, and public servants' commitment to impartiality, neutrality, and other important values with a comparative perspective. Before becoming a public management scholar, I worked as a consultant/researcher providing policy research services for government agencies in Japan. I think about how to improve public service quality, government performance, and management of public organizations based on scientific and empirical insights and findings. Currently, I am Assistant Professor with tenure at Institute of Public Administration, the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University, the Hague, the Netherlands. I hold the title of docent (Associate Professor) in Political Science at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. I'm also a Research Associate with the Quality of Government Institute (QoG Institute) at the same department. I received my Ph.D in Public Policy from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) (now Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs )and the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington in June 2016. My research projects stand at the nexus of public management, organizational behavior, and political science with a focus on comparative public administration and management. Specifically, I use insights and findings from public management and political science to consider how to improve quality of government and government peformance and how to better understand civil servants' work-related attitudes and commitment to certain values. Please see my broad research agenda and research statement. My research focuses both on comparative studies of advanced democracies as well as sub-national studies of Japanese municipalities. My work has been published in various peer-reviewed academic journals, including Governance (3), Public Management Review (3), Public Administration Review, Journal of European Public Policy, Public Administration, Policy & Politics, Public Administration, Public Policy and Administration, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Social Policy & Administration, and others. My co-authored article, "Politicization, bureaucratic closedness in personnel policy, and turnover intention", received the Midwest Political Science Association's (MPSA) Kenneth J. Meier Award for best paper in bureaucratic politics, public administration, and public policy presented at MPSA 2023 annual conference. My article, "The Association between Government Expenditure Cuts and Citizens’ Voluntary Activities: the Case of Japanese Municipalities", won the Routledge-Sponsored Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration Best Article Prize for 2017. I serve as an editorial board member of Public Administrarion Review, Local Government Studies, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Policy Studies, International Journal of Public Administration, and Governance & Management Review. I also served on the 2022 Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize Selection Committee (call for nomination) for the best book in comparative policy or administration as selection commiitee member and serve as chair in 2023. I'm also a honorary member of SANPA (South Asian Network for Public Administration). My research and comments are featured in various global media including NIKKEI (Japan), Gwangju Foreign Language Network (South Korea), Infobae (Argentina). My current research projects include:
I hold degrees from Indiana University, the George Washington University, and Tohoku University in Japan. |
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