The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale presents:
Daniel Smith, Assistant Professor of Politics, Harvard University: “Dynasties and Democracy in Japan”.
Daniel M. Smith is Assistant Professor of comparative politics in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research focuses on electoral systems, candidate selection, and voter behavior in Japan and Western European parliamentary democracies. Past research has been published or is forthcoming in the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, Electoral Studies, Annual Review of Political Science, and several edited volumes on contemporary Japanese politics. He has recently completed a book manuscript about the causes and consequences of political dynasties in Japan titled Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage and Institutional Reform in Japan.