NOBUHIRO HIWATARI

Research Associate

Sophia Institute of International Relations (SIIR)

Sophia University

Degrees

PhD. University of Tokyo 1990

Law & Politics Graduate School of Law and Political Science

PhD. University of California at Berkeley 1989

Political Science Department of Political Science

Teaching Positions

Professor Institute of Social Sciences,The University of Tokyo 1998-2021

Visiting Professor Department of Political Science University of California, Berkeley 1996-1997

Visiting Professor Department of Political Science Columbia University 1998-1999

Visiting Professor Department of Political Science Yale University 2016

Professional Membership

American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, American Economic Association, Midwest Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association, Western Political Science Association

Current Projects

1. Book Manuscript: Recessions, Elections, and Economic Reforms: Competence Claiming and the Democratic Political Economy of Developed Open-economies

2. Book Manuscript (In progress): Ties that Bind and Divide: Liberal Democracies, Economic Agreements and the Rise of Regional Rivalries

3. Research Project: Dominant Party Resurgent? Structural Reforms and the Rise of Programmatic Party Government in Japan

English Academic Publications

(1) Monographs and Edited Volumes

1. Inside Japan’s Leviathan: Decision Making in the Government Bureaucracy, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California Berkeley, 1988 (co-authored with Brian Woodall)

2. Social Contracts Under Stress: The Middle Classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of the Century (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002), co-edited with Olivier Zunz and Leonard Schoppa

(2) Book Chapters and Articles

1. “Explaining the End of the Postwar Party System,” in Junji Banno (ed.), The Political Economy of Japanese Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)

2. “Adjustment to Stagflation and Neoliberal Reform in Japan, the UK, and the US,” Comparative Political Studies, 31-5 (1998), pp. 602-632.

3. “Japanese Corporate Governance Reexamined,” in Margaret Blair & Mark Roe (eds.), Employees and Corporate Governance (Washington D.C., Brookings Institution, 1999), pp. 275-313

4. “The Reorganization of Japan’s Financial Bureaucracy: The politics of bureaucratic structure and blame avoidance,” in Takeo Hoshi & Hugh Patrick (eds.), Crisis and Change in the Japanese Financial System (New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), pp. 109-136

5. “Disinflationary Adjustment: The link between economic globalization and challenges to Postwar social contracts,” in Olivier Zunz, Leonard Schoppa, and Nobuhiro Hiwatari (eds.), Social Contracts Under Stress: The Middle Classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of the Century (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002), pp. 281-318.

6. “Embedded Policy Preferences and the Formation of International Arrangements after the Asian Financial Crisis,” The Pacific Review, 16-3 (2003), pp.331-359.

7. “The Problem of Macroeconomic Policy Crossroads: Explaining the economic policy paradox of Switzerland and Japan in the 1990s,” The Swiss Political Science Review, 10-3 (2004), 137-178.

8. “Structural Reforms at OECD Countries: The international monetary and domestic legislative causes of policy similarity.” Journal of Social Sciences 62 (1) (2010): 25-50.

9. “Political Regimes and Adjustments to the Global Economy” Journal of Social Sciences 63 (3・4): (2011): 5-22.