Frances Mccall Rosenbluth

The Politics of Oligarchy: Institutional Choice in Imperial Japan (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

This book examines a key question of modern Japanese politics: why the Meiji oligarchs were unable to design institutions capable of protecting their power. The authors question why the oligarchs chose the political institutions they did, and what the consequences of those choices were for Japan's p...

War and State Building in Medieval Japan

The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged in Japan at around the same time as it did in Europe, through the process of mobilizing fiscal resources and manpower for bloody wars between the 16th and 1...

The Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to one of Japan's thorniest public policy issues: why are women increasingly forgoing motherhood? At the heart of the matter lies a paradox: although the overall trend among rich countries is for fertility to decrease as female labor participation increa...

The Coach's Guide for Women Professors: Who Want a Successful Career and a Well-Balanced Life

If you find yourself thinking or saying any of the following, this is a book you need to pick up.I know or suspect that I am underpaid, but I hate negotiating. I do everything else first and then write in the time left over.I’m not sure exactly what the promotion requirements are in my department.Si...

Torben Iversen, Frances Rosenbluth PhD'sWomen, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality (The Institution for Social and Policy St) [Hardcover](2010)

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 agent,Ramseyer/and Rosenbluth construct a persuasive account of political relationships in Japan. In doing so, they demonstrate that political considera...

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 political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the...

Women, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality (The Institution for Social and Policy Studies)

Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labor outside the home, which is a function of structural, political, and institutional conditio...