Presenting at APSA 2024

Accepted for oral presentation at APSA 2024! I will be presenting my research on youth descriptive underrepresentation in the Japanese House of Representatives (titled “Youth Representation and Parties’ Nomination Strategy in Mixed Member Systems”).

Proportional representation (PR) systems generally promote minority representation, including youth representation. Given that mixed member electoral systems, which elect legislators from both single member districts (SMDs) and party lists, are expected to provide the “best of both worlds”, youth underrepresentation in the Japanese lower house is anomalous. I argue that the interaction between the two tiers of the system, namely dual nomination, contributes to the underrepresentation problem in the country.