Ellis S. Krauss

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June 2022

Professor Emeritus
University of California, San Diego
School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS)
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0519
Email: EKrauss@ucsd.edu
Tel: +1-760-492-8881
Fax: +1-760-943-8881

Education

Ph.D., Political Science: Stanford University, 1973
M.A., Political Science: Stanford University, 1965
B.A., Political Science: Brooklyn College of CUNY, 1964

Languages Spoken

EnglishJapanese

Professional
Employment
Background

March 2015 to the present: Professor Emeritus, School of Global Policy andStrategy (formerly School of International Relations and Pacific Studies),
University of California San Diego, USA
September 1995 – March 2015: Professor, School of Global Policy andStrategy, University of California, San Diego, California, USA
Adjunct Professor: Department of Political Science
September 1986 - August 1995: Professor, Department of Political Science,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
September, 1970 - August, 1986: Professor (1982), Associate Professor(1975 with tenure), Assistant Professor (1973), Lecturer (1970-1972),
Department of Political Science, Western Washington University,
Bellingham, Washington, USA

Visiting
Researcher/Scholar
Positions in Japan

Waseda University 2015
Meiji Gakuin University 2013
Tokyo University, Japan, 2000, 1999; 1983; 1978
Keio University, Japan, 1985
Japan Center for Michigan Universities, Japan, 1995
Kyoto University, Japan, 1974-1975
Sophia University, Japan, 1969-1970

Visiting
Researcher/Scholar
Positions Not In
Japan

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Researcher, September-December, 2014
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Researcher, October 2012
University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K.
Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, U.K.:
2004, 2008.
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
Japan-focused Executive M.B.A. Program, College of Business
Administration, 1991-1996, 1998 (Teaching position - summers)
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada,
Department of Political Science (Teaching Position 1984-1986)
Harvard University, 1978-1979

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Grants, Honors,
and Awards

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Order of the Rising Sun [(旭日章, Kyokujitsu-shō) , Third Class withGold Leaves and Neck Ribbon from the Emperor of Japan for
professional achievements. April 29, 2018 announcement.
https://gps.ucsd.edu/news-events/news/ellis-krauss-receives-order-of-therising-sun.html
The Order of the Rising Sun is the equivalent of the Order of the
British Empire in the U.K. There are six classes currently. Thirdclass is often the highest level given to ordinary citizens, as FirstClass is usually given to royalty and statesmen/stateswomen, such as
to Sir John Major and Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, and Second
Class is awarded for achievements such as winning the Nobel Prizein Literature, for example to Kazuo Ishiguro, or top jurists such as
Lady Arden of Heswall, and to politicians, top scientists, and highranking military officers.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, 6 weeks at Waseda
University, Tokyo, 2015
Harvard University Program on U.S.-Japan Relations’ Distinguished Visitor
and the Reischauer Institute’s Japan Forum speaker (April 2015). Only one
such award given each year.
Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo-Oxford University Press award
for the best article in their journal, Social Science Japan in 2014 for “Choosing
Cabinets: Electoral System and Cabinet Appointments in Japan” Seepublications below. Shared award with coauthors Robert Pekkanen and
Benjamin Nyblade.
University of Sapienza, Rome Visiting Researcher Fellowship for 3 months at
the University (September-December, 2014).
Harold White/Japan Fellowship, National Library of Australia 12 week
Fellowship for research at the Library (August 2012-November 2012).
Declined for family reasons.
National Science Foundation 3-year Award (July 1, 2008-June 30, 2011),
extended later, for $482,591 for "Collaborative Research: Electoral Systems
and Party Personnel: The Consequences of Reform and Non-Reform," with
Matthew Shugart, UCSD (third Co-PI is Robert Pekkanen at University ofWashington with separate budget).
The National Science Foundation is the equivalent of the UKRI (U.K.
Research and Innovation) that encompasses all 7 U.K. ResearchCouncils)
Japan Foundation Short-Term Research Fellowship for study of “TheChanging Role of Japan’s Prime Minister,” September 28-November 1, 2008.
Nippon Foundation’s publication of “100 Books for Understanding
Contemporary Japan” (2008), representing two of the 22 books on Politics
and Government.
Two authored or edited books (Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK
and Television News and Media and Politics in Japan) were
included.

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Conference Project Funding : “Managing the American Medusa in Global
and Regional Political Economy: The U.S.-Japan Relationship in
Comparative Perspective” [With Verena Blechinger, Free University of
Berlin and Christopher Hughes, U. of Warwick] awarded by The Universityof Warwick, January, 2005-March 31, 2006. UK£12, 730. [approx.,
US$ 24,000.]
Pacific Rim Research Program, University of California, research grant of$17,000. for two-years of travel and research funds on “The Comparative
Effects of Electoral Reform in Two Pacific Rim Parliamentary Democracies:
Japan and New Zealand,” July, 2004-December, 2006.
Northeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, grant of Yen 200,000
for short-term travel to Japan for research on LDP response to electoral reform,
June 17-June 30, 2004.
Chosen as member of the October 2003 “U.S. Knowledge Leaders” tour toTokyo to interact with Japanese private sector, government, and cultural
elites, sponsored by the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations’ Keizai
Kōhō Center.
Co-Recipient (with T.J. Pempel), two-year grant from the Japan-U.S.
Friendship Commission to lead a conference project on “Beyond Bilateralism:
U.S. and Japanese Cooperation and Conflict in Multilateral Asia,” 2000-2002.
Abe Fellowship for research on “Japan in APEC: Multilateralism and U.S.Japan Relations,”nine months over the period July 1998 to June 2000.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for College
Teachers award to direct seminar on "The Democratic Experience in Japan,"July-August, 1994.
Distinguished Lecturer, Association for Asian Studies, 1992-1993.
Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship for 4-months (March-June, 1992) for
research in residence at the Center on NHK television news and the state in
postwar Japan
Swedish-America Bicentennial Study Grant for research in Sweden on centerlocal relations and industrial policy in Japan and Sweden, spring, 1988 [taken
spring, 1989].
Postdoctoral Research grant, American Council of Learned Societies-Social
Science Research Council, for research on NHK television news and politics
in Japan, 1985
Senior Fulbright grant for research in Tokyo: politics in postwar Japan, 1983.
Grant, American Council of Learned Societies-Social Science ResearchCouncil, 1978-1979.
HEW/Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Award, Summer, 1978.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Award, Summer,
1976.

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Japan Foundation Professional Research Fellowship, 1974-1975
Grant, American Council of Learned Societies-Social Science ResearchCouncil, 1975
University of Pittsburgh: 7 internal grant awards
Western Washington University: 6 internal grants and awards

Publications:
Authored andEdited Books*Party Personnel Strategies: Electoral Systems & Parliamentary Committee
Assignments [co-authored with Matthew S. Shugart, Matthew E. Bergman,
Cory L. Struthers, and Robert J. Pekkanen). Oxford University Press, 2021.

*Refereed byAnonymous Reviewers*Reluctant Warriors, Conflicted Allies: Germany, Japan and their U.S.
Alliance Dilemma [Co-authored with Thomas Berger, Kerstin Lukner, Hanns
Maull, and Alexandra Sakaki],
Brookings Institution Press, 2019.
* The Rise and Fall of Japan’s LDP: Political Party Organizations as
Historical Institutions [co-authored with Robert Pekkanen]. Cornell
University Press, 2010.
*Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific [coedited with T.J. Pempel]. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004].
*Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2000); 278pp.
Translated into Japanese by Gotō Jumpei with a new introduction by
the author and published in Japanese as NHK vs. Nihon Seiji
Tokyo: Tōyō Keizai Shimpōsha, 2006.
*Media and Politics in Japan [co-edited with Susan J. Pharr]. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 1996; 389pp. (also in paperbound edition).
*Democracy in Japan [co-edited with Takeshi Ishida]. Pittsburgh: Universityof Pittsburgh Press, 1989; 354 pp. (also in paperbound edition).
*Conflict in Japan [co-edited with Thomas P. Rohlen and Patricia G.
Steinhoff]. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984; 416 pp. (also in
paperbound edition).
*Political Opposition and Local Politics in Japan [co-edited with Kurt
Steiner and Scott C. Flanagan]. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980;
486pp.(also in paperbound).
*Japanese Radicals Revisited: Student Protest in Postwar Japan. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1974; 192 pp

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Publications:
Articles in Journals*Refereed byAnonymous Reviewer

Curriculum Vitae

June 2022*“The Party Personnel Datasets: Advancing Comparative Research in Party
Behavior and Legislative Organization Across Electoral Systems,” [coauthors, Matthew E. Bergman, Cory L. Struthers, Matthew S. Shugart, Robert
J. Pekkanen], Legislative Studies Quarterly, (December, 2021).
*Germany, Japan, and the Fate of International Order” (coauthor: Hanns W.
Maull), Survival, Vol. 62, No. 3 (May, 2020). pp. 159-178.
“Double Trouble for Japan’s Dual Hedge on China and the US,” [coauthor:
Brad Glosserman], Global Asia, Vol. 16, No. 3 ((September 2021)“Japan’s New Prime Minister: Reform or Return to Past Form?” [co-author:
Brad Glosserman] Global Asia, Vol.15 No.4 (December 2020)“Sound and Fury: Does Abe’s Constitutional Revision Really Matter?”Global Asia, Vol. 13, No. 4, (December 2018). [Abbreviated version also
appeared as “Japan’s constitutional revision debate isn’t asking the rightquestions,” East Asia Forum, 19 February 2019]“Shinzo Abe and a More Assertive Japan: Will he defy expectations again?”Global Asia, Vol. 13, No. 3, (September 2018).
“Japan, the United States, and a Changed Pacific: Obama’s “pivot to Asia”
has been matched by Japan’s own pivot to America.,” Woodrow Wilson
Quarterly (Winter 2016). Published online March 3 2016:
http://wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/the-post-obama-world/japan-the-unitedstates-and-a-changed-pacific/* “Choosing Cabinets: Electoral System and Cabinet Appointments in Japan,”[coauthors: Robert Pekkanen, Benjamin Nyblade]. Social Science Japan
Journal, Volume 17 No. 1 Winter 2014; Winner of the annual prize for bestarticle).
* "When Do Interest Groups Contact Bureaucrats Rather than Politicians?
Evidence on Fire Alarms and Smoke Detectors from Japan" [coauthors: Michio
Muramatsu, Ethan Scheiner, and Robert Pekkanen]. Japanese Journal of
Political Science, lead article Vol 14, No. 3 (September 2013, pp. 283-304.
* “Crisis Management, LDP, and DPJ style,” Japanese Journal of Political
Science, Special Issue 02 (June 2013), pp. 177-199.
*"Over-nominating Candidates, Undermining the Party: The Collective Action
Problem under SNTV in Japan" [coauthors: Kuniaki Nemoto, Robert
Pekkanen] Party Politics, Vol. 20, No. 5 (2014), pp. 740-50. (accepted for
publication May 2012).
* “Reverse Contamination: Burning and Building Bridges in Mixed Member
Systems, [coauthors: Kuniaki Nemoto and Robert Pekkanen], Comparative
Political Studies, Vol. 45, No. 6 (June 2012), pp. 747-773; published online
November 16, 2011).
* “Legislative Organization in MMP: The Case of New Zealand,” [coauthors:
Kuniaki Nemoto, Robert Pekkanen, Nigel Roberts], Party Politics, (Vol. 18,
No. 4 2012, pp. 503-521; published online March 2011).

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June 2022*"The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP," [coauthor: Robert Pekkanen] leadarticle in The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 69, No. 1 (February, 2010), pp.
5-15.
*“Who Lobbies Whom? Special Interest Politics under Alternative Electoral
Systems,” [coauthor: Megumi Naoi]. The American Journal of Political
Science, Vol. 53, No. 4 (October 2009), pp. 874-892.
* “Policy Dissension and Party Discipline: The July 2005 Vote on Postal
Privatization in Japan, ”[co-authors: Kuniaki Nemoto and Robert Pekkanen].
British Journal of Political Science, Vol 38 (July 2008), pp. 499-525.
Ellis S. Krauss [co-author: Christopher W. Hughes] “Japan’s New Security
Policy” Survival, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Summer 2007), pp. 157-176* Co-editor journal special issue: “Managing the American MedUSA: Political
Economy Alliance Perspectives,” [co-editors: Christopher Hughes, Verena
Blechinger] The Pacific Review, vol. 20, no. 3, 2007
* “Electoral Incentives in Mixed Member Systems: Party, Posts, and Zombie
Politicians in Japan” [co-authors: Robert Pekkanen and Benjamin Nyblade],
American Political Science Review, 100, No. 2 (May, 2006), pp. 183-193.
* "Japan's 'Coalition of the Willing' on Security Policies"[co-author Robert
Pekkanen], Orbis, Volume 49, Number 3 (Summer 2005), pp. 429-444.
*“’Presidentialization’ in Japan? The Prime Minister, Media and Elections inJapan” [co-author:Benjamin Nyblade], British Journal of Political Science,Vol. 35, no. 2 (April, 2005), pp. 357-368.
* “Explaining Party Adaptation to Electoral Reform: The Discreet Charm of
the LDP?“ [co-author: Robert Pekkanen], lead article in Journal of JapaneseStudies, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Winter, 2004), pp. 1-34.
*Guest editor [co-editor: Nobuhiro Hiwatari] special issue on “ Japan’s New
Diplomatic Initiatives” of The Pacific Review, Vol .16, No. 3 (2003).
*“The U.S., Japan, and Trade Policy: From Bilateralism to Regional
Multilateralism to Regionalism” The Pacific Review, Vol .16, No. 3(2003), pp. 309-331.
*“The Press and Reform in Japan” [coauthor: Priscilla Lambert], The
Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Volume 7, No. 1 (Winter,2002), pp. 57-78.
*“Japan, the US, and the emergence of multilateralism in Asia,” The Pacific
Review, Vol 13, No. 3 (September, 2000), pp. 473-494.
“Breaking the Boys’ Club: Reforming the Japanese Press,” Harvard Asia
Pacific Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 50-53.
*”Changing Television News and Politics in Japan,” lead article in The
Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 57, No. 3 (August, 1998), 663-692.
"Seigi no sensō: Amerika ni okeru dai-niji sekai taisen no kioku"[Remembering the "Just War": World War II in the American Memory],

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NHK hōsō kenkyū to chōsa [NHK Broadcast Research and Surveys], mVol.
46, No. 12 (December, 1996), pp. 34-47 [with Akiko Hashimoto].
*"Balance and Objectivity in Newspaper Coverage of U.S.-Japan Frictions"[coauthor: Stanley Budner], Asian Survey, Vol. XXXV., No. 4 (April, 1995),
pp. 336-356.
"Varieties of Television News: Explaining Japanese and American Coverageof the Other," Studies of Broadcasting [Tokyo: NHK], No. 31 (1995), pp. 4767.
“Normative Approaches to Economic and Trade Issues," Moral Education III(New York: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 1993), pp.
63-83.
"Political Economy: Politics and Industrial Policy," invited instructional unit
for American Political Science Association project on Japanese Politics, PS:
Political Science and Politics (March, 1992)*"Ideology, Interests, and the American Executive: Toward a Theory ofForeign Competition and Manufacturing Trade Policy"[co-author Simon
Reich], International Organization Vol. 46, No. 4 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 857897 [*"Comparing Japanese and American Administrative Elites," British Journalof Political Science, (April, 1991) [with Joel D. Aberbach, Michio
Muramatsu, and Bert A. Rockman].
"Leadership in Japan," in Focus on Asian Studies, IV,. 2 (Winter, 1985), pp.
12-17.
*"Bureaucrats and Politicians in Policymaking: The Case of Japan,"
American Political Science Review, Vol. 78, No. 1 (March, 1984), pp. 126148 [with Michio Muramatsu].
*"Japan in 1983: Altering the Status Quo?" Asian Survey, (January, 1984),
pp. 81-99.
*"Political Socialization of U.S. and Japanese Adults: The Impact of Adult
Roles on College Leftism," Comparative Political Studies, XIII, 1 (April,
1980), pp. 3-32 [with James M. Fendrich].
*"The Urban Strategy and Policy of the Japan Communist Party: Kyoto,"
Studies in Comparative Communism, XII, 4 (Winter, 1979), pp. 322-350.
["Conflict in Postwar Japan," Social Science Research Council Items, Vol. 32,
2 (June, 1978), pp. 21-26 [with Thomas Rohlen and Patricia G. Steinhoff].
"The Adult Political Identification and Behavior of Former Student Activists:
A Comparative Study of Japanese and White and Black Americans," TheJapan Interpreter XI, 3 (Winter, 1977), pp. 313-336 [with James M.
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Publications:
Articles in Books*Refereed byAnonymous Reviewer

Curriculum Vitae

June 2022*“Japan-US Relations: The Most Important Bilateral Relationship in theWorld,” in Robert J. Pekkanen and Saadia M. Pekkanen, The Oxford
Handbook of Japanese Politics (NY: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp.
811-831.
“NHK-The Changing and Unchanging Politics of Semi-Independence” inPress Freedom in Contemporary Japan 1st Edition, ed. Jeff Kingston(London and NY: Routlege, 2017)*“Unraveling the Abe Conundrum in Foreign Policy: The Mystery of ‘The
Dog That Didn’t Bark,” (Chapter 18) in Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed,and Ethan Scheiner, eds, Japan Decides 2014: The Japanese General
Election (London and N.Y.: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015), pp. 226-240).
"Japan: Partial Presidentialization of Parties" (coauthor: Robert Pekkanen)(chapter 11) In Gianluca Passarelli (ed.) The Presidentialization of Political
Parties. Organizations, Institutions, and Leaders, (London, PalgraveMacmillan, 2015), pp. 196-214.
*Building a Party: Candidate Recruitment in the Democratic Party of Japan
1996–2012 [coauthors: Daniel M. Smith and Robertt J. Pekkanen], Japan
under the DPJ: The Politics of Transition and Governance. . Walter H.
Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and Brookings Institution, 2013.
“Profiles in discourage: prime ministerial leadership in post-war Japan,” [coauthor Robert Pekkanen], in Ludger Helms, ed., Poor Leadership and Bad
Governance: Reassessing Presidents and Prime Ministers in North America,
Europe, and Japan (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar
Publishing, 2012), pp. 173-194).
“The Domestic Politics of Japan’s Regional Foreign Economic Policies” [coauthor Megumi Naoi], in Vinod K. Aggarwal and Seungjoo Lee, eds. Trade
Policy in the Asia-Pacific: The Role of Ideas, Interests, and Domestic
Institutions (New York: Springer, 2011), pp. 49-69.
* “Reforming the Liberal Democratic Party,” co-author Robert Pekkanen], in
Sherry L. Martin and Gill Steel, eds., Democratic Reform in Japan: Assessing
the Impact (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 2008), pp. 11-37.
“The Prime Minister, Cabinet, and Policymaking: The Changing ‘Core
Executive’ and ‘Presidentialization’ in Japan. In Muramatsu Michio, editor,
The Core Executive and the Civil Service System in Comparative Perspective(Kizu, Japan: The International Institute for the Advancement of Science,2007).
“Japan and North America: the vital and variable relationship,” [co-author
Benjamin Nyblade], in Ellis Krauss and Benjamin Nyblade, eds. Japan andNorth America, Volume I: First Contacts to the Pacific War (London and
NewYork: Routledge Curzon, 2004), pp. 1-23.
* “The U.S. and Japan in APEC’s EVSL Negotiations: Regional
Multilateralism and Trade” in Ellis S. Krauss and T.J. Pempel, eds., Beyond
Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relationsin the New Asia Pacific (Stanford:
Stanford University Press 2003), pp. 272-295

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June 2022* “The U.S.-Japan Relationship: “Beyond Bilateralism” toward “Divided
Dependence” (coauthor T.J. Pempel), in Ellis S. Krauss and T.J. Pempel, eds.,
Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia Pacific(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), pp. 296-327.
* “Doing Media Research in Japan,” in Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia G.
Steinhoff, and Victoria Lyon Bestor, eds., Doing Fieldwork in Japan(Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003, pp. 205-225.
*”Japan: News and Politics in a Media-Saturated Society,” in Richard Guntherand Anthony Mughan, eds., Democracy and the Media: A Comparative
Perspective (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 266-302.
* “Local Politics in Japan: Welcoming the Third Wave,” in Sheila Smith, ed.,Local Voices, National Issues: The Impact of Local Initiative in Japanese
Policymaking (University of Michigan Press, 2000), pp. 1-8.
“Nihon no shushō: kako, genzai, mirai” [Japan’s Prime Minister: Past, Present,
Future] in Mizuguchi Norito, Kitahara Tetsuya, and Mabuchi Masaru, eds.,
Henka o dô setsumei suru ka: gyôseihen [How to Explain Change:
Adminstration] (Tokyo: Kizensha, 2000), pp. 51-84.
"Japan: The Paradox of Success," in Johan P. Olsen and B. Guy Peters, eds.,
Lessons from Experience: Experiential Learning in Administrative Reforms inEight Democracies (Oslo and Boston: Scandinavian University Press, 1996),
pp. 214-242 [with Michio Muramatsu].
*“Portraying the State in Japan: NHK Television News and Politics," *"MassMedia Coverage of U.S.-Japan Friction", *"Media and Politics in Japan" 3articles in Susan J. Pharr and Ellis S. Krauss, eds., Mass Media and Politics inJapan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996)*"Japan," chapter in Comparative Governance, ed., W. Phillips Shively (NewYork: McGraw Hill, 1995); Revised edition of article: 1997, 2002.
"Japan: divided bureaucracy in a unified regime," in Jon Pierre, ed,
Bureaucracy in the Modern State (London: Edward Elgar Ltd., 1995)“The Structure of Mass Media and U.S.-Japan Friction,” in Eichi Shindo and
F. Quei Quo, eds., Beyond Friction: Japan-U.S. Relations in a New World(Burnaby, B.C.: Simon Fraser University Press, 1995), pp. 159-190.
*"U.S. and Japanese Negotiations on Construction and Semiconductors:
Building Friction and Relation-chips," in Peter Evans, Harold Jacobson, andRobert Putnam, eds. Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining andDomestic Politics (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1993).
*"Targeting Resources to Promote Industrial Change: Sweden, Japan, and theUnited States," [with Jon Pierre, University of Göteborg]. chapter in Political
Institutions and Their Consequences, ed. Bert Rockman and Kent Weaver.
(Washington, D.C.: The [Brookings Institution, 1993), PP. 151-186.
"Negotiations to Open Japan's Construction Markets to U.S. Firms," ed. Robert
S. Walters, Talking Trade: U.S. Policy in International Perspective (Boulder:
Westview Press, 1993), pp. 78-104.

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June 2022"Built-in Impediments: The Political Economy of the U.S.-Japan Construction
Dispute," [with Isobel Coles] in Kozo Yamamura, ed. Japan's Economic
Structure: Should It Change? (Seattle: Society for Japanese Studies, 1990), pp.
333-358.
*"The Dominant Party and Social Coalitions in Japan,”[with Michio
Muramatsu], pp. 282-305*"The Decline of Dominant Parties: Parliamentary Politics in Sweden andJapan in the 1970s," [with Jon Pierre], pp. 226-259.
The above two articles in T.J. Pempel, ed., Uncommon Democracies:
The Politics of One-Party Dominance (Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 1990).
*"Democracy in Japan: Issues and Questions" [with T. Ishida], pp. 3-16.
and "Politics and the Policymaking Process," pp. 39-64,
and "Japanese Democracy in Perspective" [with T. Ishida], pp. 327-339.
These three articles in Democracy in Japan [co-edited with Takeshi
Ishida]. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
*"The 1960s Student Movement in Japan: A Retrospective," in Gail Lee
Bernstein and Haruhiro Fukui, ed., The Japanese and the World: Essays on
Japanese History and Politics in Honor of Takeshi Ishida (Macmillan, 1988)* "The Conservative Policy Line and the Development of Patterned Pluralism,"in K. Yamamura and Y. Yasuba, eds. The Political Economy of Japan: The
Domestic Transformation (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987), [withMichio Muramatsu], pp. 516-554.
"Japanese Political Economy Today: The Patterned Pluralist Model," in Daniel
I. Okimoto and Thomas P. Rohlen, eds., Inside the Japanese System: Readings
on Contemporary Society and Political Economy (Stanford University Press,
1988), pp. 208-210.
* "Conflict in the Diet: Toward the Institutionalization of Conflict
Management in Parliamentary Politics," pp. 243-293;* "Conflict: An Approach to the Study of Japan," [with Thomas Rohlen and
Patricia G. Steinhoff], pp. 243-293;* "Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Postwar Japan," [with Thomas Rohlen
and Patricia G. Steinhoff],pp. 377-397;
All 3 articles above: Ellis S. Krauss, Thomas P. Rohlen, and Patricia
G. Steinhoff, eds. Conflict in Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii
Press, 1984.
"Protest and Social Change: A Commentary," in George
DeVos, ed.
Institutions for Change in Japanese Society, Berkeley: Institute of East AsianStudies, University of California, Berkeley, 1984, pp. 166-172.
"Japanese Parties and Parliament: Changing Leadership Roles and Role
Conflicts," in Terry E. MacDougall, ed., Political Leadership in Modern
Japan, Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies, No.1(Ann Arbor: Center forJapanese Studies, Michigan, 1982), pp. 93-114.
* "Opposition in Power: The Development and Maintenance of Leftist
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June 2022* "Citizens' Movements: The Growth and Impact of Environmental Protest inJapan," [with Bradford L. Simcock], pp. 187-227; and*"The Partisan Politicization of Local Government:
Causes andConsequences," [with Kurt Steiner and Scott C. Flanagan], pp. 427-469.
Above three articles in Kurt Steiner, Ellis S. Krauss, and Scott C.
Flanagan, eds. Political Opposition and Local Politics in Japan(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980).

Publications:
Monographs"Japanese Students of the 1960s Generation," in Louis Kriesberg, ed.,Research in Social Movements, Conflicts,and Change. Vol. 1. (Greenwich,Conn.: JAI Press, 1978), pp. 231-255 [with James M. Fendrich].

*Refereed byAnonymous Reviewer

Ellis Krauss and Benjamin Nyblade, eds. Japan and North America, Volume
I: First Contacts to the Pacific War and Volume II :The Postwar (London
and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2004), 390pp. [Reprint Volumes ofpreviously published articles selected by the editors]*Japan's Democracy: How Much Change? Washington, D.C.:The Foreign
Policy Association Headline Series No. 305 Winter, 1995, pp. 1-70.
"Competiton among Japan, the U.S., and Europe over High-Definition
Television." Case in Studies in International Negotiation: Pew Charitable
Trusts, 1992; 44pp.
“Under Construction: U.S.-Japan Negotiations over the Opening of 'Public
Works' Construction Projects to Bidding by American Firms." Case in
Studies in International Negotiations: Pew Charitable Trusts, 1989.
"After Nakasone: Selecting Japan's New Leader," Asia Society Media
Briefing (New York: The Asia Society, September, 1987).

Publications:
Notes, Reviews,
Published
Interviews

Review essay of Go Itoh, Alliance in Anxiety: Détente and the Sino-American
Japanese Triangle (New York: Routledge, 2003) and Reinhard Drifte, Japan’s
Security Relations with China since 1989: From Balancing to Bandwagoning?
(London: Nissan Institute/Routledge Curzon, 2003). In The Journal of JapaneseStudies, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2004), pp. 564-570.
Testimony and Prepared Statement at the “China as an Emerging Regional
and Technology Power: Implications for U.S. Economic and Security
Interests,” before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commissionof the One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, February 12-13, 2004,
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 2004, pp. 173-183; pp.
190-215.
Review of Inoguchi Takashi, Global Change: A Japanese Perspective(Palgrave, 2001) in International Studies Review Vol. 4, No. 3 (Fall, 2002).
Review essay of Phil Hammond, ed., Cultural Difference, Media Memories:
Anglo-American Images of Japan (London: Cassell, 1997). Journal ofJapanese Studies (Winter, 1999).
Review essay of Jung Bock Lee, The Political Character of the JapanesePress (Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 1985), Journal of JapaneseStudies (Winter, 1988).

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Review Essay of J. Victor Koschmann, Authority and the Individual in Japan(Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1978), Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol.
7, No. 1 (1981).
"Leftist Parties and Movements in Italy and Japan: An Experimental
Comparative Course" (Note), Studies in Comparative Communism, XII, 2 &
3 (Summer/Autumn, 1980), 267 -277.
"Kôdô Jôhô Shakai to Hôsô: Kurausu Kyôju ni Kiku" [The Advanced
Information Society and Broadcasting: Listening to Professor Krauss], Hōsō
Kenkyū to Chōsa [Broadcasting Research and Surveys] (Tokyo: NHK),(November, 1984), [with T. Tsukawa]. Article based on interview

Selected
Professional
Presentations,
2012-present only;
not alreadypublished:

Presentation on Political vs. Administrative Reform in Bureaucrat-Politician
Relations in japan in Japan, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 2022
Presentation on “Reluctant Warriors, Conflicted Allies: Germany, Japan, andthe International Security Order.” Yale University, October 12, 2018.
Presentation on “A Large data cross-national project and domestic politics inJapan:” to the Japan Association of Electoral Studies (JAES) in Kumamoto,Japan, May 14-19, 2015.
Presentation on “The Yoshida Doctrine, Abe’s Foreign Policies, and the 2014
Election: Abe, the Public, and Japan’s National Interests” to a faculty-student
audience at Tokyo University, April 20, 2015.
Presentation on “The Abenigma?: The Mysteries of Japan’s Foreign Policies
under Prime Minister Abe,” Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, April
3, 2015.
Also presented as Keynote Address at the Initiation of theOrganization for Regional and International Studies, Waseda
University on May 26, 2015
Presentation on “Abe’s Political Challenges: Myths and Realities” to a
Symposium on Prime Minister Abe and Japanese Politics, National Sun-Yat
Sen University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, November 2, 2013.
Also presented to a Faculty-graduate student seminar at Institute ofSocial Science, Tokyo University, October 15, 2013
Presentation on Building a Party: Candidate Recruitment in the Democratic
Party of Japan, 1996-2012 to Gakushuin University, Japan workshop on“Candidate Selection in Japan,” March 18, 2013.
Presentations on “What’s Wrong with Japan? It’s the Politics!” at the Foreign
Press Center, Paris, University of Warwick, U.K. and University of DuisburgEssen, Germany October-November, 2012.
Presentation to panel on “The DPJ: Assessing the first two years in theory andpractice,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, March
11-15, 2012, Toronto, Canada [co-authors: Daniel Smith and Robert
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Paper: “Building a Party: Candidate Recruitment in the Democratic Party ofJapan”
Presentation to panel on “Leadership and Policy Change in Era ofComplexity,” at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting,
September 3-6, 2009, Toronto, Canada. Paper: “Leadership Responses toInstitutional Change in Japan”

Presentations on
Research To
Faculty/Graduate
student
Seminars,1990(alphabetical)

Australia Defence Forces Academy, 2006
Australia National University, 2000, 2006
Claremont-McKenna College 2006, 2005
Columbia University, 2002, 1987.
Concordia College, 1993.
Copenhagen Business School, 2004
University of California, Berkeley, 1992.
University of Central Florida, 1993.
University of Duisburg-Essen,Germany 2012
Duke University, 2008
University of Edinburgh, U.K., 2001
University of Exeter, U.K. 2009
Harvard University, 2015, 2010, 2002, 1999, 1996, 1993.
German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo 2013
Indiana University and Hudson Institute, 1992.
University of Michigan, 2008, 1992; 1984
Middlebury College, 2002.
Morehouse State, 1993.
University of Pennsylvania, 1996
Portland State University, 2002.
School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins, 2004
University of Southern California, 1988.
Southwestern University, 2006
Stanford University, 2003, 2002, 2000.
University of Sydney, 2000.
Tokyo University, Institute of Social Science, 1999, 1995.
Ursinus College, 1988.
University of Virginia, 1992
Western Washington University 2008
Waseda University Japan, 2013
Woodrow Wilson Center, 2002

Article, Citations,and Interviews in
the Mass MediaInterviewed on live television about Japan’s election results and the future, on“Cable News Asia,” Singapore television station, November 1, 2021.
Interviewed on live television about Japan’s ruling party’s leadership selection
race, on “Cable News Asia,” Singapore television station, September 29, 2021.
Interview (KPBS) and article (NPR.org) about the President Biden’s summit
with Japan’s prime minister, April 15, 2021
Interviewed about the U.S.-Japan military alliance on “Japan on the Record”
December 18, 2020
Interview (KPBS) and article (NPR.org) about Japan’s Prime Minister andacademic freedoms, November 11, 2020.
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Interviewed on my book Reluctant Warriors, Conflicted Allies: Germany,
Japan and their U.S. Alliance Dilemma Japan Forum for Innovation andTechnology, UCSD, October 18, 2020
Interview (KPBS} and article (NPR.org) about Japan’s Vaccination ministerand prime ministerial candidate, National Public Radio, September 24, 2021
Testimony and Prepared Statement at the “China as an Emerging Regional andTechnology Power: Implications for U.S. Economic and Security Interests,”
before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission of the One
Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, February 12-13, 2004, U.S.
Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 2004, pp. 173-183; pp. 190215.
Articles, citations/quotes, and reviews of my books also have appeared in:
Nikkei Asia, November 9, 2020 [with Brad Glosserman]
Asahi Shinbun, January 14, 2007, p. 11
Nihon Keizai Shinbun, January 7, 2007, p. 21
The Washington Times, July 9, 2004, p.
Stars and Stripes, November 23. 2003
Time Magazine,November, 10, 2003, p. 29.
Sankei Shinbun, October 22, 2003, p. 18.
Japan Times, October 22, 2003, p. 16
The Washington Times, August 4, 2000, p. A15

Service to theProfession

Member, Advisory Board, Journal of Japanese Studies, 1992-1995 and 20012013.
Faculty Mentor, Global Network of Research Training in Modern JapaneseStudies, Wortley Hall, Sheffield, UK, March 21-25, 2009.
Member, Social Science Research Council, Japan Advisory Board, 2005-2007.
External Reviewer, East Asian Studies program, Jackson School ofInternational Studies, University of Washington, 2008, 2005, 2002.
External Reviewer, the School of East Asian Studies, University of
Sheffield,U.K., 2003.
Member, American Advisory Board, The Japan Foundation, 2002-2006.
Author of invited Report on the state of Japan Political Science in the U.S. to
the Japan Foundation, 2003.
Member, Editorial Board, The Pacific Review, 2001Member, Advisory Board, Asian Survey, 1997Member, Executive Committee, Japan Politics Research Group, 1998Member,[Faculty Hiring] Screening Committee, Hiroshima Peace Institute,Japan, 2000-

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Member, Evaluation Committee of the East Asian Program, University ofWashington, February, 2001
Instructor, Japan Studies Association Summer Seminar 2002 for small college
and community college faculty, and graduate students, Honolulu, HI June,
2002.
Member, Northeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, 1996-1998
Member, National Coordinating Committee for Japanese Libraries, 1994-96;
1997-98.
Member, Gabriel A. Almond Award Committee, American Political Science
Association, to select best dissertation in field of comparative politics, 1994
Chair, Program Committee, 1990-1991, Association for Asian Studies; also
Program Committee member responsible for Japan, 1988-89, 1989-90.
Advisory Committee, Project on Newspaper Coverage of Selected Areas of
Friction in the Japan-United States Relationship (1990-1), and also for Projecton Television Coverage of U.S.-Japan Relationship (1991-4); both for
Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs.
Member, Discipline Screening Committee for Fulbright Scholar Awards in
Political Science, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 1984-86.
Member, Joint Committee on Japanese Studies of the American Council of
Learned Societies-Social Science Research Council, 1975-1979.

Confidential
Manuscript
Reviewer

Japanese Journal of Political Science 2011;
Journal of East Asian Studies 2013; 2011;
International Studies Quarterly, 2007;
Asian Survey, 2007;
World Politics, 2006;
American Political Science Review, 2005, 2003, 1994, 1990,
International Organization, 1997; 1996; 1994; 1992;
Comparative Political Studies, 1995, 1994, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1982;
Comparative Politics, 1993, 1992, 1989, 1984;
Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2001;
Journal of Japanese Studies, 2011, 2010; 1999, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1989,
1988, 1987, 1985, 1982, 1981, 1980;
Pacific Review, 2002;
Pacific Affairs, 1995,
Princeton University Press, 1997;
Governance, 1996, 1993;
Journal of Public Policy, 1999;
Political Science Quarterly, 1999.

Tenure andPromotion
Reviewer

University of California, Irvine (Political Science), 2008;
Rutgers University (Political Science), 2008.
Kennedy School, Harvard University, 2007.
American University 2007.
University of California, Irvine (Political Science) 2005, 2002;
University of California, Davis (Political Science) 2005;
University of California, Santa Barbara (Political Science) 2002;
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University of Washington (Political Science) 2002;
University of Maryland (Political Science) 2001;
Thunderbird School of Management (1998);
McGill University, 1998;
University of California, Berkeley (Political Science), 1995;
University of Virginia (Government), 1995;
Indiana University (East Asian Cultures and Political Science), 1995;
Pomona College (Political Science), 2004;
Purdue University (Political Science), 1995;
Boston College ({Political Science), 1995;
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Political Science), 2004, 1993;
University of California, San Diego (Sociology), 1993;
Harvard School of Public Health (1992);
Ohio State University (Political Science), 1992;
University of Oregon (Anthropology, 1992

Teaching
Competence Areas

Japanese Politics (graduate and undergraduate)
Politics of U.S.-Japan Relations and Japan’s Foreign Policy (graduate andundergraduate)
Japan and the U.S. in Asia (graduate)

Service to the
University ofCalifornia, San
Diego, School of
Global Policy andStrategy

IR/PS representative to the Representative Assembly, UCSD Academic
Senate, 2003-5, 2011-2012
Faculty Recruitment Committee Member Korea Position Search, 2004-5;
2005-6
Director of the International Career Associates [Executive Eduction] Program,
Winter, 1997-Spring, 2001
Member, Dean’s Search Committee, IR/PS, 2001
Chair, Dean’s Search Committee, IR/PS, 1998.
Member, Admissions Committee, 2007-8; 2005-6.
Coordinator of the Council on East Asian Studies and Director of the National
Resource Center in Asian Studies, 1996-1997
IR/PS Master of Pacific and International Affairs Admissions Committee(2005-6;2003-4; 2002-3; 1996-7)
IR/PS Track Coordinator for Japan, 2002-.
IR/PS Research Program Committee, 1997-98, 1998-99.
Chair, Library Committee, IR/PS, 1996-1997;
Foreign Language Committee, IR/PS, 1996

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