- Working Paper
- Japanese Politics
Time-Series Topic Analysis Using Singular Spectrum Transformation for Detecting Political Business Cycles
December 14, 2020
TKFD Working Paper Series No. 20-03
Abstract
Herein, we present a novel topic variation detection method that combines a topic extraction method and a change point detection method. It extracts topics from time-series text data as a feature of each time and detects change points from the changing patterns of the extracted topics. We applied this method to analyze the valuable albeit underutilized text data containing the Japanese Prime Minister's (PM’s) detailed daily activities for over 32 years. The proposed method and data provide novel insights into the empirical analyses of political business cycles, which is a classical issue in economics and political science. For instance, as our approach enables us to directly observe and analyze the PM’s actions, it can overcome empirical challenges encountered by previous researchers owing to the unobservability of the PM’s behavior. Our empirical observations are primarily consistent with recent theoretical developments regarding this topic. Despite limitations, by employing a completely novel method and data, our approach enhances our understanding and provides new insights into this classic issue.
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- RESEARCH DIRECTOR
- Sota Kato
- Sota Kato
- Areas of Expertise
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- Comparative political economy
- political methodology (formal modeling, machine learning)
- Japanese politics
- Research Program
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- Future Design: Research on Decision-Making Methods for Intergenerational Sustainability ( –2021)
- Plans for Sustainable and Politically Acceptable Fiscal Consolidation and Social Insurance Reform from the Perspectives of Behavioral Economics and Political Science(-2024)
- Contingency Plans for a Potential Financial Crisis
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- RESEARCH DIRECTOR( –2021)
- Takafumi Nakanishi
- Takafumi Nakanishi
- Areas of Expertise
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- Data mining
- sensitivity information processing
- media content analysis
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- Hirokazu Shimauchi
- Hirokazu Shimauchi
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- FORMER ADVISER
- Budrul Ahsan
- Budrul Ahsan
- Areas of Expertise
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- Deep learning
- data mining
- recommendation system
- genome analysis
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