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OMORI, Sawa
 
Affiliation
Faculty of Political Science and Economics, School of Political Science and Economics
Job title
Professor
Degree
Ph.D.in Political Science ( University of Pittsburgh )
Master in Political Science ( University of Pittsburgh )
Master of Science in Agriculture ( Tottori University )

Research Experience

  • 2025.04
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    Now

    Waseda University   Faculty of Political Science and Economics   Professor

  • 2008.09
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    2025.03

    International Christian University

  • 2013.08
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    2013.12

    Jons Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Visiting Scholar

  • 2006.04
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    2008.08

    University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science Research Fellow

  • 2005.05
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    2006.03

    University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science Project Manager

  • 2003.05
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    2003.06

    The International Monetary Fund Research Department 訪問研究員

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Education Background

  • 1999.09
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    2007.12

    University of Pittsburgh   Ph.D. in Political Science  

  • 1986.04
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    1988.03

    Tottori University   Graduate School, Division of Agriculture   Veterinary Science  

Professional Memberships

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    International Studies Association

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    Midwest Political Science Association

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    日本政治学学会

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    日本国際政治学会

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    比較政治学会

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    公益学会

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Research Areas

  • International relations / Politics

Research Interests

  • International Political Economy

  • Financial Reforms

  • Polycentric Governance

 

Papers

  • An Analysis of the Long-Term Effects of Liberal Arts Education Using a Graduate Survey

    Omori, Sawa, Robert Eskildsen

      66   67 - 81  2024.03  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • Do institutions matter? Political economy of the enhancement of banking supervision

    Sawa Omori

    Journal of Banking Regulation    2023.04  [Refereed]

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  • A Study on Climate Change Inequality, Social Inclusion, Global Governance of Climate Change

    Sawa Omori

    Journal of Public Interest and Common Goods Studies   22 ( 1 ) 25 - 35  2023.03  [Invited]

  • Introducing the Revised and Updated Financial Reform Database

    Sawa Omori

    Journal of Financial Regulation    2022.07  [Refereed]

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    <jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title>
    <jats:p>This article introduces a revised and updated version of the Financial Reform Database, which is widely used by economists and political economists. In this revision, country coverage is extended from 91 to 100 economies. Also, the time period covered is extended from 1973–2005 to 1973–2013. Furthermore, the coding rule relating to the enhancement of banking supervision is revised to enhance the clarity of the coding criteria used to measure the independence of a banking supervisory agency, taking into account the concepts of institutional independence and supervisory independence. In addition, in order to systematically compare policy changes across time and countries, seven dimensions of financial policies are further divided into 20 financial policy subdimensions, and each of these subdimensional policy scores is separately coded in this revision. This allows researchers to utilize each subdimension depending on their interests. The detailed policy description of each subdimensional policy reform for all countries and all years is made publicly available. In this article, an overview of the updated Financial Reform Database is provided.</jats:p>

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  • Faculty as reflective practitioners in emergency online teaching: an autoethnography

    Insung Jung, Sawa Omori, Walter P. Dawson, Tomiko Yamaguchi, Seunghun J. Lee

    International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education   18 ( 1 )  2021.05  [Refereed]

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    <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This study aimed to chronicle and understand the emergency online teaching experience of five faculty members in a liberal arts college located in Tokyo, Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, adopting the autoethnographic method. It explored the nature and dimensions of problems the faculty members faced, resources used to make sense of problems encountered, and actions they took to solve the problems as reflective practitioners in emergency online teaching. It also examined differences between faculty members over time. Analysis of seven weeks of autobiographic reflective journals during a 10-week academic term revealed that the faculty members encountered a range of problems during the classes, especially student-related and technology-related issues. When encountering problems, faculty members utilized references such as their past experience in face-to-face classroom teaching. Faculty members with more online teaching experience were more adaptable and flexible in mobilizing other references to solve problems. Overall, all members worked as reflective learners and practitioners who continued to reflect on the problems they faced and find solutions. These findings suggest that engaging in reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action can be effective ways for faculty members to develop their competencies to solve problems in emergency online teaching situations when responding to unprecedented challenges and issues is continuously needed.</jats:p>

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  • Polycentric governance and the provision of free healthcare services at public hospitals in the Philippines

    Omori, Sawa, Alagon, Marah

    Health Policy and Planning   35 ( 8 ) 983 - 992  2020  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Corresponding author

  • Why does polycentric governance work for some project sites and not others? Explaining the sustainability of Tramline projects in the Philippines

    Omori, Sawa, Tesorero Jr, Bartolome S.

    Policy Studies Journal   48 ( 3 ) 833 - 860  2020  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • "Has the IMF Changed? Quantitative Analysis of the Influence of the U.S. and Japan on IMF programs before and after the Global Financial Crisis."

    The Annuals of Japanese Political science Association   2017 ( 1 ) 80 - 108  2017.06  [Invited]

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  • Policy change and coups: The role of income inequality and asset specificity

    Hiroi, Taeko, Omori, Sawa

    International Political Science Review   36 ( 4 ) 441 - 456  2015.09  [Refereed]

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    Building on the models developed by Boix, Acemoglu, and Robinson on the relationship between economic structures and regime change, we develop a theory that emphasises structural characteristics of societies and the effects of policy change in such circumstances. We posit that significant policy change in an unequal or asset-specific society induces coups against the incumbent political leader by the losing faction of the elites seeking to prevent or cut losses associated with the policy shifts. Our empirical analysis indicates that the risk of a coup rises considerably during a period of a significant policy change in a society with a skewed distribution of income and one dominated by asset-specific production, such as oil, mining, and agriculture.

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  • The Politics of Financial Reform in Indonesia: The Asian Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath

    Omori, Sawa

    Asian Survey   54 ( 5 ) 987 - 1008  2014.10  [Refereed]

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    This research explains the politics of financial reforms in Indonesia by applying the theory of veto players. By comparing the periods during and after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs, I analyze temporal variations in the effects of the IMF and the number of veto players on financial reforms in Indonesia.

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  • Policy change and coups: the role of income inequality and asset specifity

    Taeko, HIROI, OMORI, Sawa

    Internafional Polifical Science Review   36 ( 4 ) 1 - 16  2014  [Refereed]

  • Causes and triggers of coups d'état: An event history analysis

    Hiroi, Taeko, Omori, Sawa

    Politics & Policy   41 ( 1 ) 39 - 64  2013.02  [Refereed]

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    What explains the propensities of countries to experience coups d'état? This article tests various, at times competing, theories of coups using event history analysis by modeling coups as repeatable events. We highlight the different roles that political regimes play in inducing or deterring coups, and argue that political regimes that are not clearly democratic or autocratic are the most vulnerable to coups. Features of hybrid regimes increase their underlying coup vulnerability and the impact of coup-triggering events. While existing literature has noted higher coup frequency in nondemocratic regimes than in democratic regimes, we note the impact of differences within the nondemocratic regimes, with particular emphasis on the timing of a coup event. Contributing to growing research on variations in nondemocratic regimes and their consequences, our analysis of global coup data in 152 countries indicates that very autocratic regimes are much less vulnerable to coups than hybrid regimes. © The Policy Studies Organization.

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  • Assessing the IMF Conditionality Programs: Implications for Governance of International Finance

    Omori, Sawa

    Interdisciplinary Information Sciences   15 ( 2 ) 189 - 196  2009.12  [Refereed]

  • Perils of parliamentarism? Political systems and the stability of democracy revisited

    Hiroi, Taeko, Omori, Sawa

    Democratization   16 ( 3 ) 485 - 507  2009  [Refereed]

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    Parliamentary systems are generally regarded as superior to presidential ones in democratic sustenance. This article contributes to the debate on the relationship between systems of government and the survival of democracy by bringing in a new perspective and analysing the experiences of 131 democracies during 1960-2006. We argue that systems of government do matter, but their effects are indirect; they exert their influence through societies&apos; prior democratic records. Confirming the conventional argument, our data analysis shows that uninterrupted parliamentary democracies face significantly lower risks of a first breakdown than their presidential counterparts. Contrary to the common understanding, however, we find that the risk of a democratic breakdown can be higher for parliamentary regimes than for presidential regimes among the countries whose democracy has collapsed in the past. Furthermore, the risk of a previously failed democracy falling again grows as ( the risk of) government crises increase(s). Hence our study questions the common belief that parliamentary systems are categorically more conducive to democratic stability than presidential ones.

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  • Political determinants of the pace of financial reforms in developing countries

      I ( 1 ) 188 - 219  2008.12  [Refereed]

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  • Origins of financial reforms in developing countries

    Omori, Sawa

    Ph.D. dissertation    2008

  • Exploring political determinants of the magnitude of financial reforms in developing countries

    Omori, Sawa

    International Relations of the Asia-Pacific   7 ( 2 ) 251 - 275  2007  [Refereed]

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    This paper aims to empirically explore political determinants of the magnitude of financial reforms, namely, under which conditions a country is more likely to choose a 'big-bang' type of financial reform versus a gradual financial reform. Especially, how the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) effect on the magnitude of financial reforms is conditioned by political institutions is quantitatively examined using 30 developing countries' data from 1973 to 2002. Results demonstrate that the IMF's effect on facilitating a big-bang type of financial reforms is contingent upon the number of veto players in the case of a democratic government. Also, a non-democratic government is more likely to engage in big-bang type of financial reforms than a democratic government, holding other conditions constant.

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  • How do commercial institutions promote peace?

    Bearce, David H., Omori, Sawa

    Journal of Peace Research   42 ( 6 ) 659 - 678  2005.12  [Refereed]

  • "The Development of the Pecten Oculi in the Chick"

    OMORI, Sawa, Uehara, Masato, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Toshihiko Ueshima

    Japanese Journal of Veterinary Science   52 ( 2 ) 503 - 512  1990.12

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    The development of the pecten oculi, a structure peculiar to the avian eye, was studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) correlated with light microscopy (LM) in embryonic and adult chickens. The development of the chick pecten was divided into 4 phases: (1) formation of the primordial pecten (Hamburger-Hamilton's stages 27 to 29), (2) formation of the plate-like pecten (stages 30 to 34), (3) pleat formation and pigmentation (stages 35 to 37), and (4) bridge formation and high-vascularization (stage 38 to adult). The primordial pecten is formed entirely from the ectoderm by fusion of the inwardly-projecting edges of the optic fissure. The primordial pecten grows into a tall, thin plate rising from a broad base. The pecten begins to fold slightly at stage 35. The number of pleats increases rapidly, from 7 at stage 35, to 16 at stage 36, 18 at stage 37, and 19 to 20 at stage 40. The bridge begins to form at stage 38 by a swelling of the apical edge of the pecten and completes its development by the twentieth post-hatch day. Blood vessels appear first in the broad base of the plate-like pecten, then become more numerous and gradually extend into the pleats. The pecten becomes more vascular than cellular at stage 43, and it is highly vascularized in the adult. The pleat surface becomes conspicuously irregular with increased vascularization. The peripectinate cells, located on the pecten, are already present at stage 27

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Books and Other Publications

  • よくわかる開発学

    大森, 佐和, 西村, 幹子( Part： Joint editor)

    ミネルヴァ書房  2022.10 ISBN: 9784623094554

  • 戦後日本外交からみる国際関係 : 歴史と理論をつなぐ視座

    ( Part： Contributor, 「経済危機と国際制度の再構築」pp305-312)

    ミネルヴァ書房  2021.04 ISBN: 9784623090112

  • 国際規範の競合と調和

    ( Part： Contributor, 12章 「日本における子どもへの性的搾取をめぐる立法過程の検討」, pp221-237)

    法律文化社  2020.03 ISBN: 9784589040220

  • よくわかる政治過程論

    ( Part： Contributor, 「グローバリゼーションと政治過程」176-177pp.)

    ミネルヴァ書房  2018.12

  • "NGO and Governance of Children's Rights: Analyzing a Case of NGO Effects in Japan In Global Governance Studies II Actors, Regions, and New Realm

    ( Part： Contributor, Chapter 4 "NGO and Governance of Children's Rights: Analyzing NGO Effects in Japan's Case)

    Horitsu Bunka Sha  2018.02

  • International Institutions

    ( Part： Contributor, Chapter 11 ”International Financial Regime and IMF Reform." pp.235-260.)

    Shigakusya, Inc.  2017.09

  • "Why Now Reactivation of Nuclear Power Plants? - Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant Accident, Changes in Nuclear Power Plant Policy, and Hidden Agenda." Chapter contribution in Japanese

    ( Part： Contributor, pp 112-135.)

    Fukosya  2016.04

  • ”Policy Process and Its Cycle,” in Modern Public Administration and Public Policy, ed. by Takashi Nishio.

    ( Part： Contributor, pp.161-178)

    The Society for the Promotion of The Open University of Japan  2016.03

  • "Global Public Goods and International Public Policy," in Modern Public Administration and Public Policy, ed. by Takashi Nishio.

    ( Part： Contributor, pp.231-247)

    The Society for the Promotion of The Open University of Japan  2016.03

  • “Trajectories of Nuclear Safety Regulation Policies,” In Peace research for Nuclear Power Phase-out

    Ed. by ICU, the, Peace Research Institute( Part： Contributor, pp.179-197)

    Horitsubunkasya  2013.09

  • 「データ収集方法―分析の対象をどのように集めるのか？」松田憲忠・竹田憲史編『社会科学のための計量分析入門―データから政策を考える』

    大森 佐和( Part： Contributor, 30-43)

    ミネルヴァ書房  2012.10

  • “The World of International Public Policy.” In Modern Public Administration, ed. Takashi Nishio. [In Japanese]

    OMORI, Sawa( Part： Contributor)

    Tokyo:The Society for the Promotion of The Open University of Japan  2012.03

  • “Theories of Public Policy Processes.” In Modern Public Administration, ed. Takashi Nishio. [In Japanese]

    OMORI, Sawa( Part： Contributor)

    Tokyo: The Society for the Promotion of The Open University of Japan  2012.03

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Works

  • “Child Pornography on the Internet”

    Other 

    1998.10
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Presentations

  • "What Improves the Provision of Free Health Care Services in the Philippines’ Public Hospitals?"

    Marah B. Alagon

    The Japan Society for International Development Spring Convention  (陸前高田グローバルキャンパス) 

    Presentation date： 2019.06

  • “Analyzing the Roles of the IMF and the WB on Externally and Domestically Oriented Financial Reforms.”

    ISA Annual Convention 2019  (Toronto, Canada) 

    Presentation date： 2019.03

  • Preventing Sexual Exploitation of Children: Policy Process of the Amendment of Child Prostitution and Child Pornography Prohibition Law

     [Invited]

    Presentation date： 2018.07

  • "Regulators as well as Globalizers? Evaluating the Effects of the IMF and the World Bank on Financial Reforms"

    Japan Association of International Relations 

    Presentation date： 2017.10

  • “Why Some Polycentric Governance Work and Why Not Others? Famers’ Associations and Local Governments on the Sustenance of Tramline Projects in the Philippines”

    Bartolome Jr, Sinfuego TESORERO

    Midwest Political Science Association  (Chicago, USA) 

    Presentation date： 2017.04

  • “How Much Relevant? Effects of IMF, the World Bank, and the US on Financial Reforms”

    Midwest Political Science Association  (Chicago, IL, USA) 

    Presentation date： 2017.04

  • 「子ども人権ガバナンスにおけるNGOの影響力―日本の事例から」

    グローバルガバナンス学会  (大阪大学) 

    Presentation date： 2016.10

  • Assessing the Effects of IMF and the World Bank Programs on Financial Reforms

    American Political Science Association  (San Francisco, CA, US.) 

    Presentation date： 2015.09

  • IMFは変わったか―世界金融危機後の国際通貨基金の変革の検証

    日本国際政治学会  (福岡) 

    Presentation date： 2014.11

  • Global Financial Governance and IMF

    Japan Association of Global Governance  (Senshu University, Tokyo) 

    Presentation date： 2014.10

  • Veto Players and States' Vulnerability to Coups

    with Taeko Hiroi

    Japan Association for Comparative Politics  (Kobe University) 

    Presentation date： 2013.06

  • Acting Together: Assessing the Impacts of IMF and US Foreign Aids on Financial Reforms

    OMORI, Sawa

    Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL 

    Presentation date： 2012.04

  • Acting Together: Assessing the Impacts of IMF and US Foreign Aids on Financial Reforms

    OMORI, Sawa

    International Studies Association, San Diego, CA 

    Presentation date： 2012.03

  • Financial Reforms in Indonesia and Thailand: Asian Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath

    OMORI, Sawa

    Midwest Political Science Association, 69th Annual National Conference, Chicago, Illinois 

    Presentation date： 2011.04

  • Causes of Financial Reforms, External Pressures and Domestic Responses: IMF, US Aid, and Veto Players

    OMORI, Sawa

    Midwest Political Science Association, 69th Annual National Conference, Chicago, Illinois 

    Presentation date： 2011.04

  • Financial Reforms in Indonesia and Thailand: Asian Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath

    OMORI, Sawa

    The 2011 International Studies Association Meeting, Montreal, Quebec 

    Presentation date： 2011.03

  • Causes of Financial Reforms, External Pressures and Domestic Responses: IMF, US Aid, and Veto Players

    OMORI, Sawa

    The 2011 International Studies Association Meeting, Montreal, Quebec 

    Presentation date： 2011.03

  • "Long-Term Causes and Short-Term Triggers of Coups d'état: The Effect of Policy Change in Unequal and Inflexible Societies”

    OMORI, Sawa, Taeko Hiroi

    2009 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario 

    Presentation date： 2009.09

  • 「世界金融危機と世界金融システムのガバナンス―IMFの役割の検討を中心として」

    大森 佐和

    2009年度日本公共政策学会研究大会 

    Presentation date： 2009.06

  • Financial Reforms in Indonesia and Thailand: Asian Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath

    OMORI, Sawa

    Midwest Political Science Association, 67th Annual National Conference, Chicago, Illinois 

    Presentation date： 2009.04

  • "Timing and Causes of Coups d'etat"

    OMORI, Sawa, Taeko Hiroi

    Midwest Political Science Association, 67th Annual National Conference, Chicago, Illinois 

    Presentation date： 2009.04

  • "Timing and Causes of Coups d'etat"

    OMORI, Sawa, Taeko Hiroi

    International Studies Association Meeting, New York, NY 

    Presentation date： 2009.02

  • 「国際金融システムの安定におけるIMFの役割」

    大森 佐和

    ガバナンス研究会発表、日本大学 

    Presentation date： 2008.12

  • "Timing and Causes of Coups d'etat"

    OMORI, Sawa, Taeko Hiroi

    Midwest Political Science Association, 66th Annual National Conference, Chicago, Illinois 

    Presentation date： 2008.04

  • "Perils of Parliamentarism? Precedents, Government Crisis, Party Fractionalization, and the Stability of Democracy"

    OMORI, Sawa, Taeko Hiroi

    International Studies Association Meeting, San Francisco, California 

    Presentation date： 2008.03

  • 「途上国の金融改革のペースを決定する政治的要因についての計量分析」

    大森 佐和

    日本政治学会総会研究大会 

    Presentation date： 2007.10

  • "Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and the Stability of Democracy"

    OMORI, Sawa, Taeko Hiroi

    Midwest Political Science Association, 65th Annual National Conference, Chicago, Illinois 

    Presentation date： 2007.04

  • "Political Economy of Financial Reforms in Indonesia"

    OMORI, Sawa

    Midwest Political Science Association, 65th Annual National Conference, Chicago, Illinois 

    Presentation date： 2007.04

  • "Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and the Stability of Democracy"

    OMORI, Sawa, Taeko Hiroi

    American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

    Presentation date： 2006.09

  • "Exploring the Determinants of Financial Reforms: The IMF, Veto Players, and Interest Groups"

    OMORI, Sawa

    20th International Political Science Association World Congress, Fukuoka 

    Presentation date： 2006.07

  • "Exploring the Political Determinants of Financial Reforms in the Developing World"

    OMORI, Sawa

    International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, California 

    Presentation date： 2006.03

  • 「途上国における金融改革のマグニチュードの政治学的決定要因の分析」

    大森 佐和

    ガバナンス研究会発表、明治大学 

    Presentation date： 2006.03

  • "Measuring Financial Reforms"

    OMORI, Sawa

    International Studies Association Annual Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii 

    Presentation date： 2005.03

  • "Explaining the Exchange Rate Regime Choice: The International Monetary System, Political Institutions, and the Interest Groups"

    OMORI, Sawa

    American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Illinois, Chicago 

    Presentation date： 2004.09

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Research Projects

  • Analyzing the Reforms of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank- For Global Public Goods or National Interests?

    Kakenhi  Category C

    Project Year :

    2018.04
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  • Assessing Effects of the IMF and the World Bank on Financial Reforms

    Project Year :

    2013.04
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    2017.03
     

  • Public policy dynamics and civil service reform in an age of globalization

    Project Year :

    2013.04
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    2017.03
     

    Takashi Nishio

  • Abe Fellowship "Effects of the IMF and the World Bank on Financial Policy Reforms: Comparing the Influence of the United States and Japan on the IMF and the World Bank Programs."

    the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership 

    Project Year :

    2013.08
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    2014.03
     

  • International Monetary Fund and Financial Reforms in Developing Countries

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Project Year :

    2010.04
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    2013.03
     

    OMORI Sawa

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    This research project aims to examine the degree to which the IMFfacilitates financial reforms and whether the US foreign aid intermediates for the effects of liberalization inducing effects of the IMF programs. Results reveal that liberal dimensions of f

  • the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Category B), The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Comparative Regionalism Project

    Project Year :

    2006.04
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    2008.03
     

    Tamio Nakamura

  • 2003 Award Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Grant, May 2004, Horowitz Foundation

    Project Year :

    2005.04
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    Awarded for dissertation field research in Indonesia, field research in Jakarta, Indonesia, completed on March 2005

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Misc

  • Legal Situation on Child Pornography in Japan

    Sexuality   47   68 - 71  2010.07  [Invited]

    Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (trade magazine, newspaper, online media)  

  • “Measuring Financial Reforms”

    ISS Discussion Paper   F-125  2006.12

    Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (bulletin of university, research institution)  

 

Syllabus

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Sub-affiliation

  • Faculty of Political Science and Economics   Graduate School of Political Science