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CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Politics of Taxation and Redistributive Equality

Junko Kato, Professor of Political Science, Graduate School of Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo
Thursday, March 27, 2025
12:00-1:30 PM
10th Floor Weiser Hall Map
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the

Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/qV4ZD.

Japan is a critical case in a comparative array of welfare states. Contemporary welfare states achieve higher equality by raising revenue from a regressive consumption tax than from a progressive income tax to be redistributed through public expenditures. As Professor Kato will discuss, the politics of taxation matters for this unexpected consequence among long democracies.

Junko Kato (PhD, Yale University) is a professor of political science at the University of Tokyo. Her research focuses on comparative politics on taxation and the welfare state, party coalitions and government formation, and neuro-cognitive analyses of social decisions and behavior. She has authored articles in American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, Governance, in addition to two books, The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality (Princeton University Press, 1994) and Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and numerous book chapters. Professor Kato served as co-editor-in-chief of Japanese Journal of Political Science (2019~2023) and has been on the editorial boards of several journals, including British Journal of Political Science (1996~2016), Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (2016~), and Journal of East Asian Studies (2021~). She has launched neuro-cognitive approaches to social sciences and published articles on fMRI experiments of human decision and behavior in Frontiers in Neuroscience, Scientific Reports, and Cerebral Cortex.

This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at [email protected]. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
Building: Weiser Hall
Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Asian Languages And Cultures, Japanese Studies, Politics
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Center for Japanese Studies, International Institute, Asian Languages and Cultures