Research findings of Professor Kota Suechika published in "Nationalism and Ethnic Politics" and "Ethnopolitics"

Professor Kota Suechika (RARA Fellow) has published research papers on Lebanese politics in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics and Ethnopolitics. The first paper analyzes the political discourse of the leadership of Hezbollah, a Shiite Islamist organization in Lebanon, through a quantitative analysis of big data for Arabic-language texts, a unique dataset of its kind. The other paper, meanwhile, analyzes the results of a unique survey experiment to demonstrate that the continued monopolization of power by elite politicians in Lebanon is driven not by top-down mechanisms but by bottom-up mechanisms.

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Paper title: Hezbollah’s Political Communication Strategy in Consociational Democracy: a Quantitative Text Analysis of Al-Manar
Author: Kota Suechika
Publication journal: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
Published online: April 20, 2025 (local time)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2025.2472488

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Paper title: Reproducing the Sectarian Oligarchy in Lebanon: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on Electoral Fraud
Author: Kota Suechika
Publication journal: Ethnopolitics
Published online: August 4, 2025 (local time)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2025.2532325