Electoral Coordination in a Multi-level Context: Analysis of Candidate Manifestos in Japanese Subnational Elections

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Based on the data set of subnational candidate manifestos collected and digitalized in previous two years, I conducted analysis of the diverging discourses around responses to Covid-19 among gubernatorial and national candidates. I also expanded this data by collecting and digitalising gubernatorial and mayoral campaign speeches. I presented findings at the VSJF 2022 conference in Zurich.I also completed a co-authored paper by invitation, on the discourse of multilevel blame avoidance in gubernatorial elections to be published in 2023 in Senkyo Kenkyu. I have also expanded my working paper on ideologies of repopulating municipalities, presenting it at an international conference in Berlin on urban-rural issues. The related paper was peer-reviewed and published in Cotemporary Japan.