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Specialized in Japanese Party Politics and Political Psychology.

(Faculty of Law, Kagawa University)
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(Faculty of Law, Kobe University)
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Based on political manifestos of the Lower House electoral candidates published in post-war Japan, the project group aims at quantitative analysis and text-mining of political text data. Through this, the group attempts to clarify inter-party and intra-party dispersion of policy preferences, and quantitatively characterize each Lower House election by analyzing the process of political issue formation and disappearance.



(Inttitute for Public Participation)
Manager of VoteMatch project with a background in Sociology. He acts as the central organizer for all arrangements, communication, logistics and supervision.

(Dutch Center for Documentation of Political Parties, University of Groningen)
Political Scientist with a sound knowledge in Dutch political parties, through reading paties' internal newspaper bulletins and election programs (manifestos) and attending party congresses when necessary.

Peter Schuszler
(Department of Management, Twente University)
Specialist in distance-education using digital technology. He devises and improves the statistical caltulation methods used for VoteMatch.

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Dutch Center for Documentation of Political Parties, University of Groningen
(DNPP: Documentatiecentrum Nederlandse Politieke Partijen )
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Documentation Centre for Dutch Political Parties is an archive institute, founded in 1971 as part of University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen). It is now part of the Library of University of Groningen, and funded by the university. It has a large collection related the history of Dutch political parties, including party congress tapes, party manifestos, party bulletins, and books related to political parties.

Institute for Public Participation
(IPP: Instituut voor Publiek en Politiek)
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Institute for Public Participation is an independent, non-political-party-affiliated public institute. It was established in 1994 to protect democracy and encourage political education and political interest of the public. The institute currently consists of 35 - 40 personnels, which are mostly researchers or former political party members. The director is Nel van Dijk, a former member of the European Parliament. The institute carries four groups specialised in different areas: The European Union and international politics, Strengthening democracy in the Netherlands, The Citizen and Administrative Change, and Democratic Participation and Diversity (Minority Participation). It is partially funded by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the government of the Netherlands. The Institute publishes books, organizes conferences and events and carries out social and political projects.

Citizenship Foundation (SBK), the former body of IPP, was founded out of concern amongst reserchers and political party members when voting turn-out rate dropped during the 1960s. It was then funded by the Ministry of Welfare.