Researcher basic information

• Ph.D. (International Public Policy), Osaka University, Sep. 2021

• https://researchmap.jp/tchisaka?lang=en

• 10966021

• Electoral authoritarianism
• Area studies (Iran)

• Humanities & Social Sciences, Politics, Comparative politics(electoral authoritarianism)
• Humanities & Social Sciences, Area studies, Middle East Politics (Iran)

• Bachelor's degree program, School of Law
• Master's degree program, Graduate School of Law
• Doctoral (PhD) degree program, Graduate School of Law
• Professional degree program, Graduate School of Public Policy

Research activity information

• Apr. 2023, Stanford University (Iranian Studies Program), Zahedi family fellowship
• Jun. 2013, University of California Santa Barbara, Dean's honor
  Global studiese major (spring quarter GPA 3.9)
  Tomoyo Chisaka
• 2012, JASSO, Assistance and Allowances for Education Expenses for Studying Abroad (Exchange program)
  派遣先UCSB
  Tomoyo Chisaka
• 2012, Osaka University, Dean's award, School of Foreign Studies
  Second place, English speech competition 2012, (organized by English major)
  Tomoyo Chisaka

• Navigating uncertainty in regime transition: reference-point framing as a tool for clarifying the trajectory of political change
  Tomoyo Chisaka; Kaoru Hidaka; Taku Yukawa
  Democratization, 1, 24, Informa UK Limited, 20 Feb. 2026, [Peer-reviewed]
  Scientific journal
• The conflict within: the politics of parliamentary election management in Iran
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  Democratization, 32, 1, 188, 209, Informa UK Limited, 15 Oct. 2024, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author]
  Scientific journal, 41864188;33869462
• Electoral Management in Iran: The Ministry of Interior’s Role in Parliamentary Elections
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  Middle East Journal, 78, 1, 75, 94, Oct. 2024, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, Although Iran’s Guardian Council enjoys incomparable legal authority over every stage of the electoral process, Iranian laws and regulations also provide the Ministry of Interior with an important role to play in the management of parliamentary elections. Analysis of primary source legal materials and original interview evidence, this article considers when and how Iran’s Supreme Leader delegates executive autonomy to the executive as related to management of parliamentary elections., 33869462;13628366
• How Iranians See the IRGC Oversea Deployments? An Analysis of the Survey Experiment
  Tomoyo Chisaka; Dai Yamao; Kota Suechika
  Quarterly Journal of Institute of Developing Economies[Ajia Keizai], 64, 1, 2, 21, Mar. 2023, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author], [Domestic magazines]
  Japanese, Scientific journal, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been responsible for protecting Iran’s revolutionary regime from both domestic and international threats since the 1979 revolution. As part of its mission, IRGC soldiers have been deployed to support Shiites in neighboring countries. However, deployment of the IRGC abroad has the potential to create security dilemmas, precipitate economic sanctions, and lead to other problems that compromise national interests. How have the Iranian people viewed the eployment of IRGC soldiers abroad, which is fraught with such paradoxes? In Iran, where speech is strictly controlled, it has been difficult to accurately gauge public opinion toward the IRGC, an organization that symbolizes the regime itself. By conducting a unique survey experiment, we attempt to overcome the problem of “social desirability bias.” The results show that only about 35% of respondents across Iran support the IRGC’s deployment abroad, and that the difference in approval/disapproval is strongest and most significant among respondents with different attitudes toward the U.S. compared with factors such as support for the regime, religious beliefs, or economic status. This suggests a different view from the conventional wisdom regarding Iran’s foreign policy, which has often been characterized by irrationality based on support for the revolutionary regime or adherence to religious ideology.

  
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• A Mechanism of Adjusted Electoral Malpractice in Iran: Parliamentary Elections under the Dual Structure of Electoral Management
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  Ph.D. dissertation, Sep. 2021
  Doctoral thesis
• The Supreme Leader’s Legitimacy Crises and Candidate Screening in Iran’s Post-Khomeini Parliamentary Elections
  International Public Policy Studies, 25, 1, 63, 77, Sep. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
  Scientific journal

  
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• The Role of Candidate Screening in Iran’s Elections: Focusing on the Implementation of Velāyat-e Faqīh by the Guardian Council
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  Iranian Studies, 16, 1, 17, Mar. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
  Japanese, Scientific journal

• Iran's Revolutionrary Forces and Palestine: Relationship Development and Current Situation
  Tomoyo Chisaka, Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 551, 62, 75, Sep. 2024, [Invited]
• 2021 Opinion Poll in Iran: Sampling Method and Descriptive Statistics
  Tomoyo Chisaka, 新学術領域研究「グローバル関係学」 オンライン・ペーパー・シリーズ, 13, 25 Nov. 2021

  
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• The Candidate Screening in Iran’s Parliamentary Elections, 1984-2012
  Tomoyo Chisaka, OSIPP Discussion Paper, Apr. 2020
  English, Others
• Book review: Asef Bayat : Revolution without Revolutionaries : Making Sense of the Arab Spring
  Tomoyo Chisaka, Journal of Middle Eastern studies, 532, 1, 83, 85, May 2018
  Japanese, Report scientific journal

  
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• Encyclopedia of comparative politics
  日本比較政治学会, 選好の偽装(自己検閲）
  丸善出版, Jan. 2025, 9784621309995, xxii, 697p, Japanese, [Contributor]
• Japan and the Middle East: Foreign Policies and Interdependence (Contemporary Gulf Studies)
  eds; Steven Wright; Satoru Nakamura, Chapter 4: The Three Cycles of Rise and Fall in Iran-Japan Relations (87-108)
  Springer Verlag, Singapore, Apr. 2023, 9789811934582, [Contributor]
• 日本の国際協力 : 貧困と紛争にどう向き合うか
  阪本, 公美子; 岡野内, 正; 山中, 達也, 第７章対イラン援助ー政治変動を超えた継続的支援の挑戦
  ミネルヴァ書房, Aug. 2021, 9784623091928, xvii, 339, 4p, Japanese, [Contributor]
• シリア・レバノン・イラク・イラン
  末近, 浩太, 第１章 イラン・日本関係－発展と衰退を繰り返す90年の歴史ー
  ミネルヴァ書房, Feb. 2021, 9784623088256, xiv, 257p, 27-48, Japanese, [Contributor]

• 公開講演会「イラン国内政治における軍の影響力」
  千坂知世
  30 Jul. 2026, 北海道大学法学研究科附属高等法政教育研究センター, Public discourse
• Annual meeting, Japan Middle East Studies Association, Public lecture, Discussant
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  Annual meeting, Japan Middle East Studies Association, 30 May 2026, Public discourse
  [Invited]
• Conflict Within: Politics of Parliamentary Election Management in Iran
  Chisaka, Tomoyo
  Post-imperial Political Ecosystems, 17 Mar. 2026, The Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Oral presentation
  [Invited]
• 40th Japan Association for Middle East Studies, discussant
  日本中東学会年次大会, 12 May 2024, Oral presentation
  [Invited]
• Parliamentary Politics and Iran-US Relations During the Cold War
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  Second Zahedi Family Fellow Lecture (Stanford University), 01 Jun. 2023, Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, English, Public discourse
  United States, Influential literature on Iran-US relations has assessed economic and security issues as having profound impacts on the rise and fall of Mohammad Reza Shah. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the ways that Iran's domestic institutions, particularly parliamentary politics, influenced the nature of bilateral relations. Findings from the Ardeshir Zahedi papers housed in Hoover Library and Archives and the US National Security Archives indicate that even though the Shah and the US were close allies, parliamentary elections provided a space for the US to contact “moderate” opposition who tried to challenge the Shah’s dictatorship by participating in electoral politics. This communication was facilitated by US concerns about fighting communism within the context of the Cold War, in part because Iran’s opposition knew that only US advocacy would encourage the Shah to co-opt them in parliament in an otherwise illiberal authoritarian environment. A closer look at parliamentary elections in Iran during the Shah’s regime offers important insights into the ways that domestic politics interacted with Iran-US relations, with implications for Iran’s political development., [Invited]
• Managing Elections in Iran: Understanding the Role of Iran’s Ministry of Interior in Parliamentary Elections
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  Kobe University Political Science Seminar, 08 Nov. 2022, Oral presentation
  [Invited]
• イランにおける世論調査の概要とその分析
  グローバル関係学最終報告会, 21 Feb. 2022
  [Invited]
• Elections and the Quest for External Legitimacy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
  Chisaka Tomoyo
  2020 Annual meeting, the Japan Association of International Relations, 25 Oct. 2020, Japanese, Oral presentation
• Election control and legitimacy seeking in Iran: An analysis of the parliamentary election from 1980 to 2016
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) 2020 Virtual Workshop, Aug. 2020, English
  22 Aug. 2020 - 04 Sep. 2020
• Screening Effects on Iran's Parliamentary Elections: Focusing on incumbent reelection rate in Tehran
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  The 36th Annual Meeting of Japan Association for Middle East Studies, Special Academic Meeting, 30 Aug. 2020
• Electoral control in the Iranian parliament, 1980-2016
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  26th DAVO international congress (University of Hamburg), 05 Oct. 2019, English, Oral presentation
  [International presentation]
• Candidate Screening and Electoral Turnover in the Iranian Parliament, 1980-2016
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  Fourth Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies (University of St. Andrews), 14 Apr. 2019, English, Oral presentation
  [International presentation]
• Domestic political impacts on foreign policy in Iran
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  国際公共政策コンファレンス, Apr. 2018, Oral presentation
• Parliamentary politics in Iran focusing on the Iranian foreign policy
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  The 33rd JAMS Annual Meeting, May 2017, Oral presentation

• JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
• 日本比較政治学会
• 日本国際政治学会

• Iran's post-election adjudication and its mechanism of protest repression
  Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists
  Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2027
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  JSPS KAKENHI, The University of Tokyo, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 23K17094
• Electoral Control under Authoritarian Regimes: Focusing on the Incumbent Reelection Rates
  Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (PD)
  Oct. 2021 - Sep. 2024
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, The University of Tokyo, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 22KJ0521
• The Empirical Study of The Nexus between Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in Contemporary Iran
  Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (DC)
  Apr. 2019 - Sep. 2021
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  当該年度の成果は以下の通りである。
  【研究実施内容】イランの内政について、その特徴を象徴する要素の一つ「選挙運営の制度設計」を現地資料を用いて明らかにした。イランには、選挙に政治生命が左右される大統領と、左右されない最高指導者という二人の異なるリーダーが存在することは既存研究で広く知られている。一方、その構造が、選挙管理にどのように反映されているのかは、選挙制度設計の複雑性から不明瞭なままであった。それに対して、本研究では、選挙実施を担う内務省（大統領側）と監視を担う監督者評議会（最高指導者側）が、選挙前、選挙期間、投票日、選挙後という選挙サイクルにおいて、一部重複、一部分権的に働く機能を詳細に明らかにした。用いた資料は、一次資料としては、憲法、国会選挙法、国会選挙法実施規則、監督者評議会による国会選挙の監督法、内務省発行の選挙スタッフの訓練マニュアルである。二次資料としては、2019年度イランにて収集した監督者評議会発行の刊行物を参照した。
  【得られた結果】上述の分析を通して、イランの選挙管理は大統領と最高指導者のエージェントによって、中央、選挙区、投票所レベルに至るまで、二元的に管理されているからこそ、たとえ改革志向の政権が発足しても選挙の自由は制限され、また、逆に、軍出身の政権が発足しても、軍の選挙干渉は制限される、という選挙運営が常に現状で維持される仕組みが明らかになった。
  【成果発表】上述の結果の一部は、査読誌『国際公共政策（International Public Policy Studies）』で公表した他、世界最大のイラン研究の国際学会Association of Iranian Studiesでも発表した。なお、成果の全体は博士論文にまとめて執筆した。現在はその一部を投稿論文として執筆中であり、2022年度中の刊行を予定している。
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 特別研究員奨励費, Osaka University, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 19J10368
• The Empirical Study of The Nexus between Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in Contemporary Iran
  Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers
  Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2020
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, The University of Tehran, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
• Iran's foeign policy and its domestic political processes
  research grant
  Sep. 2018 - Mar. 2019
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  The Konosuke Matushita Memorial Fundation, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
• Fieldwork on Iranian domestic politics
  Foundation for the future
  Jan. 2015 - Mar. 2015
  Tomoyo Chisaka
  Osaka University, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding

• 模擬講義「比較政治学入門」
  02 Aug. 2026
  Lecturer
  北海道大学法学部オープンキャンパス
• JASS＆SA合同セミナー「女性研究者の海外キャリア」
  23 Sep. 2023
  Panelist
  JASS、東北大学男女共同参画推進センター
• Parliamentary Election Management in Iran's Islamic Republic
  10 Jun. 2023
  Lecturer
  Japanese Academic Seminars at Stanford (JASS)
• 学びの寄稿地「UTCMES ニューズレター」
  Apr. 2023
  Contribution
  東京大学大学院総合文化研究科 グローバル地域研究機構中東地域研究センター
• TBS Radio
  28 Feb. 2023
  Coverage cooperation
  TBS ラジオ
  特集イラン
• Middle East Islamic Countires Political Change Database (Iran)
  29 Aug. 2021
  Contribution
  NIHU, "Modern Middle East Studies", Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.
• Modern Iranian Politics
  17 Dec. 2020
  Lecturer
  Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin
  Modern Middle East
• 『大阪大学図書館報』「ラーニング・サポーター留学体験記」Vol,52, No.1, p.6 (2018年９月)
  Sep. 2018
  Contribution
• イラン女性の社会参画支援ネットワーク：女性省、外務省、NGO
  13 Oct. 2017
  Contribution
  笹川平和財団
  中東コラム
• Student representative, Consultation for Exchange Abroad Program
  01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2016
  Advisor
  Osaka University, Center for International Education and Exchange
• Osaka Global Juku (Internship)
  Apr. 2014 - Dec. 2014
  Organizing member
  British Council