Ellis S. Krauss
ekrauss@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-8175
Fax: (858) 534-3939
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0519
Office: #1413
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1973
M.A., Stanford University, 1965
B.A., Brooklyn College of CUNY, 1964
Programs and Centers
Japan Regional Concentration Program
Biography
Krauss is a leading expert on Japanese politics, and on U.S.-Japan relations. In 2010 Cornell University Press published his latest book, co-authored with Robert Pekkanen of the University of Washington, The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP: Political Party Organizations as Institutions. In 2004, Krauss published a co-edited book with T.J. Pempel, UC Berkeley, Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia Pacific (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), which analyzes how recent trends in the Asia-Pacific over the past decade-and-a-half have reshaped the U.S.-Japan relationship. In 2000, he published a book titled Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), about NHK, Japan's mammoth public broadcaster, and its relationship to and consequences for Japanese politics. It was subsequently translated into Japanese with a new introduction and published in 2006 as NHK vs. Seiji by Toyo Keizai Press, a noted Japanese publisher. Krauss has written and edited many other books, and he has also published numerous articles in professional journals dealing with political science and Asian Studies. Recent publications include articles in the in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies and the British Journal of Political Science. Krauss has also published articles on contemporary issues in policy journals such as Survival and Orbis.
The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP:
Political Party Organizations as Historical Institutions,
published by Cornell University Press.
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Krauss, Matt Shugart of IR/PS, and Robert Pekkanen have recently received a half-million-dollar three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study electoral reform and non-reform consequences on political parties’ candidate, party, parliamentary, and government appointment strategies in eight countries (Japan, New Zealand, Ukraine, Bolivia, U.K., Germany, Lithuania and Portugal).
Krauss, Shugart, and Pekkanen
In 2011 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Bologna, Italy and in 2008, 2003 and 2001, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, U.K. In 2011 Krauss received a National Library of Australia Fellowship to study post-war prime ministerial leadership in Japan in Canberra in 2012, and in 2008 a Japan Foundation Fellowship also to study the changing role of Japan’s prime minister. He also has given a presentation at the Japan Political Science Association annual meeting on the topic of the study of Japanese politics in the U.S. Krauss was named Distinguished Lecturer of the Association for Asian studies in 1992-1993. He has received a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars fellowship for research in residence and was twice a Fulbright Fellow in Japan. He has been a visiting scholar at several Japanese universities, including the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Keio University, and Gakushuin University. Krauss serves on the advisory boards of several journals and important committees of national organizations in the field of Asian studies. Krauss joined IR/PS in 1995.
Perspectives
Krauss can provide commentary on domestic politics in Japan, the Japanese mass media, U.S.-Japan relations and Japan's foreign policy and role in Asia.
Expertise
Krauss is a leading expert on Japanese politics, U.S.-Japan relations, and Japan's political economy.
Current Projects
 Krauss pictured with Pekkanen (right) in front of the Diet building. |
In 2010 Cornell University Press published Krauss's latest book, co-authored with Robert Pekkanen of the University of Washington, The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP: Political Party Organizations as Institutions. The book analyzes how and why Japan's long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party developed as an institution, adapted to Japan's electoral reforms of the 1990s, and then suddenly fell from power in 2009 after almost 54 years in office. Krauss is also doing co-authored research on the consequences of electoral reform and non-reform on parties’ personnel strategies (with Matthew Shugart and Robert Pekkanen), and a collaborative project on the consequences of electoral reform in Japan and New Zealand (with Robert Pekkanen and Kuniaki Nemoto) and on the consequences for democracy of having had a formerly dominant party in power for 30 years in Japan, Italy, Sweden, and Israel, involving scholars from all these countries. |
Background Notes
Krauss, along with Matt Shugart of IR/PS and Robert Pekkanen, has recently received a half-million-dollar three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study electoral reform and non-reform consequences on political parties’ candidate, party, parliamentary, and government appointment strategies in eight countries (Japan, New Zealand, Ukraine, Bolivia, U.K., Germany, Lithuania and Portugal).
In 2008, Krauss also received a Japan Foundation Fellowship to study the changing role of Japan’s prime minister. Additionally, he was invited to give a presentation at the Japan Political Science Association annual meeting on the topic of the study of Japanese politics in the U.S.
In 2003, Krauss was chosen as one of the six members of the "U.S. Knowledge Leaders" tour to Tokyo to interact with Japanese private sector, government, and cultural elites, sponsored by the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations' Keizai Koho Center.
In 1998-2000, Krauss received a prestigious Abe Fellowship to conduct research on the U.S., Japan, and APEC. In 1992-93 he was named "Distinguished Lecturer" of the Association for Asian Studies. He directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar on "The Democratic Experience in Japan" in 1994.
Krauss is on advisory boards of several journals and important committees of national organizations in the field of Asian and Japanese Studies. He joined IR/PS in 1995.
Professor Krauss in front of the
New Zealand Cabinet Office, July 2006.
Professional Activities
Member, Advisory Board, The Japan Foundation, 2002 - 2006
Member, Editorial Board, The Pacific Review, 2001 - present
Member, Advisory Board, Asian Survey, 1997 - present
Member, Advisory Board, Journal of Japanese Studies, 1992 - 1995 and 2001 - present
Member, Executive Committee, Japan Politics Research Group, 1998 - present
Member, Screening Committee [for faculty hiring], Hiroshima Peace Institute, Japan, 2000 - present
Member, Editorial Board, Social Science Japan Forum
Member, Evaluation Committee of the East Asian Program, University of Washington, 2008, 2005, 2001; and the University of Sheffield, U.K., 2003
Board of Directors, Japan Policy Research Institute, 1994 - present
Research Interests
- Japanese Politics
- Politics of U.S.-Japan Relations
- Japan and the U.S. in Asia and Japanese Foreign Policy
Professor Krauss interviewing former Cabinet Minister Koike Yuriko in her
Diet Member office, October 2008.
Future Japanese Voter at an Election Rally
Publications of Note
In 2010 Cornell University Press published Krauss's latest book, co-authored with Robert Pekkanen of the University of Washington, The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP: Political Party Organizations as Institutions. In 2004, Krauss published a co-edited book with T.J. Pempel, UC Berkeley, Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia Pacific (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004). In 2000 he published a book titled Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), about NHK, Japan's mammoth public broadcaster, and its relationship to and consequences for Japanese politics. Subsequently it was translated into Japanese with a new introduction and published in 2006 as NHK vs. Seiji by Toyo Keizai Press, a noted Japanese publisher. Krauss also is co-editor of Media and Politics in Japan (1996). His previous works include co-editing and contributing articles for Democracy in Japan and Conflict in Japan. He has written many articles published in professional journals dealing with political science and Asian Studies, including, recently, articles in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the British Journal of Political Science, three of the top journals in political science, as well as in the Journal of Asian Studies and Journal of Japanese Studies, the major journals in Asian Studies.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles:
"Over-nominating Candidates, Undermining the Party: The Collective Action Problem under SNTV in Japan" [coauthors: Kuniaki Nemoto, Robert Pekkanen] Party Politics (forthcoming, accepted for publication May 2012).
"When Do Interest Groups Contact Bureaucrats Rather than Politicians? Evidence on Fire Alarms and Smoke Detectors from Japan" [coauthors: Michio Muramatsu, Ethan Scheiner, and Robert Pekkanen]. Japanese Journal of Political Science (forthcoming; accepted for publication March, 2012).
“Reverse Contamination: Burning and Building Bridges in Mixed Member Systems," [coauthors: Kuniaki Nemoto and Robert Pekkanen], Comparative Political Studies, forthcoming, Vol. 45, No. 6 (June 2012), pp. 747-773; published online November 16, 2011).
“Legislative Organization in MMP: The Case of New Zealand,” [coauthors: Kuniaki Nemoto, Robert Pekkanen, Nigel Roberts], Party Politics, (Vol. 18, No. 4 2011, pp. 503-521; published online March 2011).
"The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP," lead article in The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 69, No. 1 (February, 2010), pp. 5-15 (coauthor: Robert Pekkanen).
"Who Lobbies Whom? Special Interest Politics under Alternative Electoral Systems," American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 53, No. 4 (October 2009), pp. 874-892 (coauthor: Megumi Naoi).
“Policy Dissension and Party Discipline: The July 2005 Vote on Postal Privatization in Japan,” British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 38 (July 2008), pp. 499-525. (co-authors: Kuniaki Nemoto and Robert Pekkanen)
“Japan’s New Security Policy,” Survival, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Summer 2007), pp. 157-176. (co-author: Christopher W. Hughes)
Co-editor of journal special issue: “Managing the American MedUSA: Political Economy Alliance Perspectives,” The Pacific Review, vol. 20, no. 3, 2007. (co-editors: Christopher Hughes, Verena Blechinger)
“Electoral Incentives in Mixed-Member Systems: Party, Posts, and Zombie Politicians in Japan”, (Co-authors Robert Pekkanen and Benjamin Nyblade)
American Political Science Review Vol. 100, No. 2 May 2006
Japan’s ‘‘Coalition of the Willing’’ on Security Policies [co-author Robert Pekkanen [co-author Robert Pekkanen]
Orbis, Volume 49, Number 3 Summer 2005
‘Presidentialization’ in Japan? The Prime Minister, Media and Elections in Japan [co-author Benjamin Nyblade]
British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 34 April 2004, pp. 357-368
"Explaining Party Adaptation to Electoral Reform: The Discreet Charm of the LDP?" [co-author: Robert Pekkanen]
Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1 Winter 2004, pp.1-34
"The U.S., Japan, and Trade Policy: From Bilateralism to Regional Multilateralism Regionalism+"
The Pacific Review, Vol .16, No. 3 (2003), pp. 309-331
Recent Books:
The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP: Political Party Organizations as Historical Institutions
For book reviews and ordering information, please click here.
Beyond Bilateralism: US-Japan Relations in the New Asia Pacific
If you are interested in ordering this book, please visit Stanford University Press.
Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News
If you are interested in ordering the book, please visit Cornell University Press.
