 | Frances McCall Rosenbluth |
Frances McCall Rosenbluth, who was recently named as the Damon Wells Professor of International Politics, is a comparative political economist with a special interest in Japan.
Rosenbluth's current work focuses on the electoral microfoundations of different forms of capitalism, and on the politics of gender inequality. The author of numerous articles and book chapters, she has written three books: "The Politics of Oligarchy: Institutional Choice in Imperial Japan" (with Mark Ramseyer), which won the 1997 Leubbert Prize for Best Book in Comparative Politics from the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA); "Japan's Political Marketplace" (also with Ramseyer); and "Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan." She is the editor of "The Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility," which explores why that nation's women are increasingly forgoing motherhood.
After earning her B.A. in 1980 from the University of Virginia, where she majored in government and foreign affairs, Rosenbluth received Japanese language training 1981-1982 at the Inter-University Center in Tokyo via a U.S. Government National Resource Scholarship, and studied the politics of Japan's financial regulation 1985-1986 at the University of Tokyo via a Fulbright Scholarship. She earned an M.A. (1983) and Ph.D. (1988) at Columbia University, where she was assistant director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business 1987-1988.
Before coming to Yale in 1994 as professor of political science, Rosenbluth served on the faculties of the University of Virginia's Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, the University of California-San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the University of California-Los Angeles' Department of Political Science.
At Yale, Rosenbluth is director of the Georg Walter Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy, part of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. The program sponsors research by Yale students and faculty on topics in international and comparative political economy, and hosts events on those topics.
Rosenbluth has received research support from the Fulbright Commission, the National Science Foundation, the Council on Foreign Affairs and the Abe Foundation. In addition to the Leubbert Prize, the APSA has honored her for the best paper in its Comparative Politics Section in 2003 (for "The Politics of Low Fertility," with Matthew Light and Claudia Schrag), and for the best paper in its Political Economy Section in 2004 (for "The Political Economy of Gender Explaining Cross-National Variation in Household Bargaining, Divorce and the Gender Voting Gap," with Torben Iversen).
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Frances Rosenbluth is designated
the Damon Wells Professor
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