Collusion to Conflict: Analyzing Japan's Labor Politics with Quantitative Textual Tools

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Brief Overview

I leverage quantitative tools to analyze Japanese labor politics since the 1990s through thousands of unstructured government text documents. I show that policy became more contentious and salient as political competition intensified.

Author

• Nathan Cisneros, University of California-Irvine