Kento Yamada '24, an undergraduate student concentrating in Government with a focus on Data Science, has been selected to present on a panel at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in early September. The research project, titled "Estimating the Partisan Bias of Redistricting Plans in Japan," conducted alongside Sho Miyazaki (Stanford, Business) and Prof. Kosuke Imai (Harvard, Government), is the first ever empirical analysis of partisan effects of Japanese redistricting, applying a state-of-the-art redistricting simulation algorithm to generate a large number of alternative redistricting plans that are representative of the population of plans consistent with the redistricting rules adopted by the commission by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan. The project was funded over several years by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

More information about the panel can be found here.