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NIWA Isao

    Department of Law　Professor/Assistant General Manager
Last Updated :2024/04/19

Researcher Information

Degree

  • MA（Waseda University）

J-Global ID

Research Interests

  • 選挙運動   利益集団   地方政治   政党組織   日本政治   政治学   political science   

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / Politics

Education

  •        - 1997  Kyoto University  法学研究科  政治学
  •        - 1997  Kyoto University  Graduate School, Division of Law
  •        - 1989  Waseda University  School of Political Science and Economics  政治
  •        - 1989  Waseda University  Faculty of Political Economics

Association Memberships

  • 日本公共政策学会   日本法政学会   日本政治法律学会   日本選挙学会   日本政治学会   

Published Papers

  • Niwa Isao
    Kinkidaigaku hogaku: Kindai University Law Review 69 (1/2/3) 1 - 23 2021/12 
    This paper explores the electoral activity of Japanese interest groups. Though it is widely recognized that interest groups cannot mobilize the vote as before, but this paper shows that groups' votes are still important. And it shows that the decline of interest group campaigning has occurred unevenly. Trade associations gradually exit from elections, but professional groups based on individual membership are still active. This paper tries to explain this divergence by the reduction of governmental subsides and PVEA(personal vote earning attributes).
  • Niwa Isao
    Kinkidaigaku hogaku : the law review of Kinki University Kinki University 55 (2) 65 - 93 0916-4537 2007/09 
    This paper is about the reduction of the number of members of local assemblies in Japan in the 2000s. It describes legal framework for local assembly seats, arguments about reduction of assemblymen, and trends in actual reduction in municipalities.
  • Niwa Isao
    Kinkidaigaku hogaku : the law review of Kinki University Kinki University 55 (1) 25 - 45 0916-4537 2007/06 
    In local politics since the mid-1990s, attention has focused on the emergence of a different type of chiefs in various regions. In describing the characteristics of these chiefs, the term "independent" is used in the sense that they do not receive support from political parties in elections, and the term "reformist" is used because they actively promote new policies such as information disclosure and policy evaluation. As mentioned above, the political stances and innovations in municipal policies of these chiefs have been the subject of interest, but their social backgrounds and careers have not been sufficiently examined. In this paper, we examine the characteristics and changes in the careers of the new types of chiefs that have emerged in recent years, using prefectural governors as a case study.
  • Calitions and Influence of Interest Groups
    Niwa, Isao
    Kinkidaigaku hogaku: Kindai University Law Review 53 (3/4) 2006/03 
    This paper examines cooperation between interest groups, based on The Third Interest Group Survey.
  • Niwa Isao
    The Fudai keizai ronshu : the journal of economic studies, Toyama University Toyama University 48 (1) 195 - 211 0286-3642 2002/07
  • 労働組合と政党政治の関係についての研究動向
    富大経済論集 46 (2) 189 - 206 2000
  • 衆議院石川一区・富山二区補欠選挙の研究
    富大経済論集 44 (2) 209 - 226 1998
  • 利益団体の組織分析
    法学論叢 137,139/6,3 1995 
    1995-1996

Books etc

  • 白鳥, 浩; 丹羽功 他 (Contributor第2章)法律文化社 2022/09 9784589042279 xv, 306, 3p
  • 丹羽功 (Contributor第7章)ミネルヴァ書房 2021/01 9784623089673 xix, 287, 52p
  • ポリティカル・サイエンス入門
    丹羽功 (Contributor第6章)法律文化社 2020/09
  • よくわかる政治過程論
    丹羽 功 (Contributor第１部Ⅱ 利益団体)ミネルヴァ書房 2018/10 34-41
  • 市民社会論――理論と実証の最前線
    丹羽 功 (Contributor第5章 利益団体論)法律文化社 2017/02
  • 二〇一三年参院選 アベノミクス選挙
    丹羽 功 (Joint work第1部第3章 地方政治家の国政への挑戦)ミネルヴァ書房 2016/12 105-125
  • 二〇一二年衆院選 政権奪還選挙:民主党はなぜ敗れたのか
    丹羽 功 (Joint work第4章 政党中心選挙の中での個人投票:奈良一区・二区)ミネルヴァ書房 2016/05 133-158
  • 現代日本政治の争点
    丹羽 功 (Joint work第４章 都道府県知事選挙の構図)2013/10 74-92
  • 統一地方選挙の政治学
    丹羽 功 (Joint work第９章 関西広域連合という争点)ミネルヴァ書房 2013/07
  • 政権交代選挙の政治学 : 地方から変わる日本政治
    丹羽 功 (Joint work自民党地方組織の現在)ミネルヴァ書房 2010/10
  • 現代日本の政治―政治過程の理論と実際
    丹羽 功 (Joint work第６章 利益団体)2009/04
  • 村松 岐夫; 久米 郁男 (Joint work利益団体間の協力と対立)東洋経済新報社 2006/09 4492211632
  • 自民党地方組織の活動
    大嶽秀夫編『政界再編の研究』有斐閣 1997
  • 大企業労使と選挙
    大嶽秀夫編『政界再編の研究』有斐閣 1997

Conference Activities & Talks

  • Changing Landscape of Japanese Interest Group Politics: Their Presence in the Upper House Election  [Not invited]
    NIWA Isao
    Southern Political Science Association  2016/01

Works

  • ポスト55年体制の部分均衡分析
    2003 -2005

MISC

Research Grants & Projects

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
    Date (from‐to) : 2020/04 -2025/03 
    Author : 岡田 浩; 丹羽 功
     
    2021年度は、本研究課題の研究対象である有権者の候補者志向（候補者の認知度・イメージ・好感度）やその他の意識や投票行動などについて尋ねた衆院選に関する意識調査を、無作為抽出した金沢市及び奈良市の各2000人の有権者を対象として、2021年10月31日の衆院選の投開票後の11月に実施し、その調査データの分析を行った。 金沢市において実施した調査については、そのデータの分析の成果の一部を、2022年度中の出版が予定されている共著の単行本に収録される論文にまとめ、2021年度中に原稿を提出した。この論文においては、「前職」か「新人」かという候補者の属性の違いによって有権者の候補者志向や投票行動がどう異なるかに焦点を当てて調査データを分析した成果をまとめたが、予想される通り、前職に比べて新人は認知度、好意的イメージ、好感度の点で全体的に劣ること、しかしながら、新人でも過去の職業の経歴や実績によっては実行力の点で高く評価されることがあるなど場合によっては前職をしのぐ評価を得ることがあること、また、有権者にとって未知であるがゆえに好意的イメージを重ねやすいなど、新人であるがゆえの強みもあることなど、先行研究では指摘されてこなかった様々な点を明らかにすることが出来た。 奈良市において2021年に実施した調査を利用して、2022年に共著の1章を分担執筆し、同年10月に日本政治学会で調査の概要を報告した。
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    Date (from‐to) : 2003 -2004 
    Author : MORI Tadashi; AOKI Kazumasu; OKADA Hiroshi; NIWA Isao; YASUOKA Masaharu
     
    During the final year of our research project, individual members further elaborated their own research themes in accordance with the project's agenda. Also, in the process, the members as a team discussed in depth and coordinated each of their research findings and theoretical analyses. In substance, our project sought to come up with an innovative analytic perspective that would enable us to view the established political regime (so-called the regime of 1955 or the 1955-regime) as collectives of partial equilibriums and then to evaluate the recent years' political reforms as ever shifting processes in which relevant actors are led to depart from status quos that are cemented by a bundle of those partial equilibriums. To consolidate this hypothetical perspective, the members mainly worked on two subjects. First, as a key analytic concept, what we describe as "the 1955-regime can be understood as collectives of partial equilibriums" should be empirically-proof one. Thus, referring to such theoretical works as comparative institutional analyses, institutional rational choice theories, and rather conventional equilibrium theories, the members elaborated ones' studies and sharpened the concept intensively. Second, in order to verify the concept, we first broke down the regime into three dimensions ; political actors' behaviors, political and policy processes, and policy outputs. And then each member chose concrete topics that would illustrate reforms and changes found conspicuous in those three dimensions. The topics included the followings : voting behaviors and reforms of electoral system, competition among national political parties, local politics and gubernatorial elections, local representatives' recruitment and their policy preferences, cross-national comparison of interaction between bureaucrats and politicians and reforms of cabinets' roles, environmental policies and market-based regulations, and city development policies. In each of these seven topics, the members sought to shed light on puzzles that consist of three concrete questions. 1) Under the 1955-regime, why and how could an equilibrium be maintained in a way it did? 2) Why and how was it possible for the very equilibrium to be fallen apart? To what extent do the shifting processes evolve from the status quo? 3) In what way can a new equilibrium be introduced?
  • 現代日本の利益集団政治
  • election campaigning, interest group politics

Teaching Experience

  • Political History A/BPolitical History A/B Kindai University

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