Kentaro Hirose
Princeton University
Department of Politics
130 Corwin Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544-1012
Phone:
+1 773-547-5244
Office:
235B Corwin Hall
Email:
hirose@princeton.edu
Web:
http://scholar.princeton.edu/hirosek
Position
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Politics, Princeton University (2013 -).
— Program for Quantitative and Analytical Political Science.
Education
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago, 2013.
M.A., Political Science, University of Chicago, 2009.
B.A., Political Science, Waseda University, Japan, 2003.
Research Interests
International Relations (Interstate Conflict, Civil War, International Cooperation)
Quantitative Methods (Bayesian Statistics, Hidden Markov Models, Causal Inference)
Applied Game Theory
Publication
Jong Hee Park and Kentaro Hirose. 2013. “Domestic Politics, Reputational Sanctions,
and International Compliance.” International Theory Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 300-320.
Dustin Tingley, Teppei Yamamoto, Kentaro Hirose, Luke Keele, and Kosuke Imai.
2014. “mediation: R Package for Causal Mediation Analysis.” Journal of Statistical
Software Vol. 59, No. 5, pp. 1-38.
Working Papers
Kentaro Hirose, Kosuke Imai, and Jason Lyall. “Can Civilian Attitudes Predict Civil
War Violence?”.
Kentaro Hirose. “Paradox of Power: Coercive and Non-coercive Diplomacy.”
Kentaro Hirose. “Endogenous Hidden Markov Panel Models.”
Kentaro Hirose, Kosuke Imai, and Jason Lyall. “Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of
Violence and Public Opinion in Afghanistan.”
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In Progress
Kentaro Hirose. “The Credibility of Implicit Threats to Use Force”
Kentaro Hirose and Kosuke Imai. “Causal Mediation Analysis of Multilevel Data.”
Statistical Software
mediation: R Package for Causal Mediation Analysis (with Dusting Tingley, Teppei
Yamamoto, Luke Keele, and Kosuke Imai).
Conference Presentations (selected)
New Faces in Political Methodology, Pennsylvania State University, 2011.
St. Louis Area Methods Meeting, Washington University in St. Louis, 2010.
AHC Graduate Student Conference on Political Economy, New York University, 2011.
Society for Political Methodology (poster), 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.
Peace Science Society (International), 2010.
American Political Science Association, 2012, 2013, 2014
Midwest Political Science Association, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
Reviewer
World Politics, Journal of Politics, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Interna-
tional Theory.
Teaching Experiences
Lecturer (Grodzins Prize Lectureship). Theory and Practice of Military Conflict. 2011.
University of Chicago. (U)
Lecturer. Research Methods Lab. 2013, 2014. Princeton University. (U)
Teaching Assistant. University of Chicago.
Introduction to International Relations. Professor Charles Lipson. (U)
Big Wars. Professor Charles Lipson. (U)
American Grand Strategy. Professor John Mearsheimer. (U)
Political Economy of Weakly Institutionalized Settings. Prof. Duncan Snidal. (G)
Insurgency, Terrorism, and Civil War. Professor Paul Staniland. (U)
Economic Shocks, Institutions, and Growth. Professor Jong Hee Park. (U)
Introduction to Political Economy of Development. Prof. Alberto Simpser. (U)
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Political Economy of Public Policy. Professor Ethan Bueno de Mesquita. (G)
Political Institutions and Policy Process. Professor Christopher Berry. (G)
Management in Organizations. Professor Scott Ashworth. (G)
(U): Undergraduate, (G): Graduate
References
Duncan Snidal, duncan.snidal@politics.ox.ac.uk
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Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Kosuke Imai, kimai@princeton.edu
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Department of Politics, Princeton University
Jong Hee Park, jongheepark@snu.ac.kr
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Department of Politics and International Relations, Seoul National University
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