Kenichi Ariga
Kenichi Ariga (PhD, Michigan, 2010) is Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at The Ohio State University. His research and teaching interests include comparative political institutions, comparative electoral and legislative politics, politics of advanced industrial democracies, Japanese politics, and quantitative political methodology. His current research projects focus on comparative analysis of incumbency advantage across different electoral rules, comparative study of cabinet post allocation to individual members of parliament, and the variation in the impact of corruption charges on election outcomes across different electoral systems. During academic year 2010-2011, he was Advanced Research Fellow at the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and lecturer at the Department of Government at Harvard University.
