Books

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

Japan since 1980. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. (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.” European Journal of Political Research 43 (May 2004), pp. 421-447.  (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?” Japanese Studies 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. New Jersey: World Scientific Press, 2005. (download PDF)

Other Papers

“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)