Frances McCall Rosenbluth
Education:
- Ph.D, Columbia University, 1988
- M.A, Columbia University, 1983
- B.A, University of Virginia, 1980
Bio:
Frances McCall Rosenbluth, a comparative political economist with a special interest in Japan, and a distinguished and beloved teacher and member of the Yale community, died Nov. 20 after a valiant battle with cancer. She was 63.
Rosenbluth, Damon Wells Professor of Political Science, was born in Osaka, Japan, where her parents were Presbyterian missionaries, and grew up there and in Taiwan. Her impeccable Japanese meant that she was easily mistaken on the telephone for a native, and that fluency, combined with her flawless Mandarin, gave her an intuitive understanding of those cultures that enriched her scholarly work.
Rosenbluth’s first book, “Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan,” took on scholarly orthodoxy when she argued that assumptions about Japan as a unique culture, where political and economic dynamics that prevailed elsewhere had to be treated differently, was wrong. This, as well as her early analysis that the Japanese economy was neither as efficient nor as viable as it appeared to most commentators, proved to be right. These innovations quickly established her as a leader in the field.
You can read her full obituary here.
Dedication by former students in Washington Post Monkey Cage.
Video/Audio:
- 2009-09-30 - MacMillan Report - The Political Economy of Gender Inequality
- 2018-10-03 - Book Talk -Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy From Itself
Articles:
- 2018-11-28 - Washington Post Online: PostEverything Opinion - “Political Partisanship is Vicious. That’s Because Political Parties are Too Weak.”
- 2018-11-12 - The New Yorker Online: The Political Scene - “Is More Democracy Always Better Democracy?”
- 2018-10-05 - Yale MacMillan Center website - “Rosenbluth and Shapiro discuss “Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself”
- 2018-10-02 - The American Interest Online - “Stop The Bloodletting: Empower Political Parties to Revive Democratic Accountability.”
- 2018-10-02 - Iniziative Laica Online - “Le Grande Illusione dei Partiti Leggeri.”
- 2014-02 - American Political Science Review - “Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height Inequality.” Awarded the American Political Science Association’s 2015 Heinz Eulau Award for best article published in the American Political Science Review in the previous calendar year