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Short Bio
Robert Pekkanen is
Chair of the
Japan Studies Program and Associate Professor
at the
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
at the
University of Washington. Harvard
University awarded him a Ph.D. in political science in 2002.
He has published articles on Japanese politics in
such journals as The American Political Science
Review, The British Journal of Political Science,
The Journal of Asian Studies,
and The Journal of Japanese Studies, among
others. His first book,
Japan's Dual Civil Society: Members without
Advocates (Stanford, 2006) won the Ohira
Prize in 2008 and an award from the Japanese Nonprofit Research Association
(JANPORA) in 2007.
The Japan Times also featured it as one of the
"Best Asia Books" of 2006. A
Japanese translation appeared in 2008. With lead
editor Benjamin L. Read, he edited a volume on local
organizations published by Routledge in 2009. His
third book, Neighborhood Associations and
Governance in Japan, appeared the same year
(co-authored in Japanese with Yutaka Tsujinaka and
Hidehiro Yamamoto). Pekkanen's fourth book departs
from the theme of civil society and associational
life to examine party organization and theories of
institutional change and origin through the case of
Japan's Liberal Democratic Party. The Rise and
Fall of Japan's LDP: Political Parties as
Institutions will be published by Cornell
University Press in 2010, co-authored with Ellis S.
Krauss. Pekkanen is currently co-PI on a major
research projected funded by the National Science
Foundation to investigate parties' nomination
strategies and legislative organization in eight
countries. Pekkanen
has interviewed over 50 members of the Japanese
Diet, and shadowed several in the past few elections. He himself has been interviewed by media
including PBS's "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,"
The Christian Science Monitor, Asahi Shimbun
(Japan), USA Today, and radio programs in the
US, China, Jamaica and Australia.
September 10th, 2005: (L-->R)
Jun'ichiro Koizumi, Martha Leche, Ellis Krauss, Robert
Pekkanen ロバート・ペッカネン
ワシントン大学ヘンリー・M・ジャクソン国際研究大学院准教授・日本研究学科長
専門分野：日本政治。研究領域：市民社会、町内会、政党政治と立法組織。
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