Books
Japanese Politics and Government. London: Routledge, 2017
Political Reform in Japan: Leadership Looming Large. London: Routledge, 2007.
Edited Volumes
The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Politics. London: Routledge, 2011.
Refereed Journal Articles
“Reform Leadership in the United States and Japan: A Comparison of John McCain and Ozawa Ichiro.” Leadership. 3.2 (May 2007): 173-189.
“WIN WIN’s Struggles with the Institutional Transfer of the EMILY’s List Model to Japan: The Role of Accountability and Policy.” Japanese Journal of Political Science 12.1 (January 2011): 75-94.
“The DPJ and Women: The Limited Impact of the 2009 Alternation of Power on Policy and Governance.” Journal of East Asian Studies 12.3 (Fall 2012): 441-66.
“Quota Nonadoption in Japan: The Role of the Women’s Movement and the Opposition.” Politics and Gender, forthcoming 2015.
Chapters in edited volumes
“Women Running for National Office in Japan: Are Koizumi’s Female “Children” a Short-term Anomaly or a Lasting Phenomenon?” in Political Change in Japan: Electoral Behavior, Party Realignment, and the Koizumi Reforms, eds. Steven Reed, Kenneth Mori McElwain and Kay Shimizu. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2009.
“The Institutional landscape of Japanese Politics.” In The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Politics, ed. Alisa Gaunder. London: Routledge, 2011.
“The DPJ and Women: The Limited Impact of the 2009 Alternation of Power on Policy and Governance.” Japan Under the DPJ: The Politics of Transition and Governance, ed. Kenji E. Kushida and Phillip Y. Lipscy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2013.
“Conservative Female Candidates in Germany and Japan: Supply and Demand” (co-authored with Sarah Elise Wiliarty). Gender, Conservatism, and Political Representation, ed. Karen Celis and Sara Childs. ECPR Press, 2014.
“Merging Teaching and Research through Faculty-Student Collaboration: An Exploration of Female Political Leadership in Japan.” In Suzanne Wilson Barnett, ed. Luce Fund for Asian Studies Faculty Book. Under review.
Book Reviews
Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring. By Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Michael F. Thies. Journal of Japanese Studies. 38.1 (2012): 201-205.
Decoding Boundaries in Contemporary Japan. Edited by Glenn D. Hook. Journal of Japanese Studies, 38.2 (2012): 473-476.
The Evolution of Japan’s Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change. Edited by Leonard J. Schoppa. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2011 and Welfare Through Work: Conservative Ideas, Partisan Dynamics, and Social Protection in Japan. By Mari Miura. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012. Perspectives on Politics, 11.4 (2013): 1215-1217.
Other peer reviewed publications
“Bringing Scholarship to the Classroom.” ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts. 16.1(Fall 2008): 64-70.
“Political Parties in Democratic Japan.” Education About Asia. 16.1 (Spring 2011): 50-53.
“Politics of Japan.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, ed. Rick Valelly. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Works in Progress
“From Madonnas to Assassins to Girls: The Changing image of female politicians in Japan.” Article in progress.
“The Effects of Party Organization on Women in the CDU and the LDP: Chancellors versus “Madonnas.’” Article in progress, co-authored with Sarah Wiliarty.