Frances McCall Rosenbluth

Japan's Political Marketplace

Mark Ramseyer and Frances McCall Rosenbluth show how rational-choice theory can be applied to Japanese politics. Using the concept of principal and ag...

Forged Through Fire: War, Peace, and the Democratic Bargain

Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive? Having sp...

The Politics of Oligarchy

Institutional Choice in Imperial Japan

This book examines the failure of the Meiji oligarchy to design institutions capable of protecting their hold on power in Japan....

Forged Through Fire

Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive? Having sp...

Women, Work, and Politics

The Political Economy of Gender Inequality

This book presents an original and groundbreaking approach to gender inequality. Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politi...

Japan Transformed

Political Change and Economic Restructuring

With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its pol...

Responsible Parties

How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics Democracies ...

Japan's Political Marketplace

With a New Preface

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Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan

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