Books

 

Economic Policy and Performance in Industrial Democracies: Party Governments, Central Banks, and the Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix.  Forthcoming in 2008 from Routledge.  (Sample Chapters)

 

The Political Economy of Japan since 1980.  Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. (Co-authored with Thomas F. Cargill).

 

Building Policy Legitimacy in Japan: Political Behaviour beyond Rational Choice.  Basingstoke: Macmillan/New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.  Introductory and Theoretical Chapters (Chapters 1 and 2)

 

 

 

Journal Articles

 

“Economic Performance of ‘Weak’ Governments and Their Interaction with the Central Bank and Labor: Deficits, Economic Growth, Unemployment, and Inflation, 1961-1998.”  European Journal of Political Research 44 (2005): 801-36.  (download PDF)

 

“Japan’s Political Economy in Comparative Perspective: Macroeconomic Policy and Wage Coordination.”  Forthcoming, European Journal of Political Research.  (download PDF)

 

“Effects of Government Characteristics on Fiscal Deficits in 18 OECD Countries, 1961-1994,” Comparative Political Studies 34 (June 2001), pp. 527-54.

 

 “Explaining Electoral Reform: Japan versus Italy and New Zealand,” Party Politics 5 (1999), pp. 419-438.  (PDF file)

 

“Gori sentaku-ron: Goi-ten o motomete” [The Rational Choice Debate: Searching for Areas of Agreement].  Leviathan 19 (1996), pp. 105-125 (with Steven R. Reed).  (download)

 

“Consensualism in the Japanese Legislative Process: Rationality or a Non-Rational Norm?”  Bulletin of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia 15 (1995), pp. 21-46.  (download PDF)

 

Book Chapter

 

“Policy Legitimacy as a Determinant of Policy Outputs: Japan’s Case.” In Lynn T. White, ed., Legitimacy: Ambiguities of Political Success and Failure in East and Southeast Asia. World Scientific Press, forthcoming.  (download PDF)

 

Papers under Review

 

“Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix: An Investigation of Political Determinants of Macroeconomic Policy Mixes.”  (download PDF)

 

“Social Democratic Corporatism, Central Bank Independence, and Economic Performance: An Empirical Analysis of 17 OECD Economies, 1961-1998”  (download PDF)