Happy to share today is my first day as an assistant professor at Yale 🎉 This month also marks the 20-year anniversary since I first visited Japan and started studying the country. Here's a photo from that first trip vs. today. Grateful and excited for what comes next!
Not long ago, one of the men on the stage tried to overthrow American democracy. And we're having a normal debate like it's 2012 about the economy, budget deficit, etc.
"Japan’s political system is not set up to reward the young." I shared insights from my research with The Economist for their story on Takashima Ryosuke, Japan's youngest ever mayor, elected at 26. www.economist.com/asia/2024/06...
At 27 years old, he is bucking the trend of the country’s gerontocratic politics
I spoke with Ashli Varghese at Business Standard about why incumbency rates tend to be lower in Indian elections compared to other democracies 🇮🇳🗳️ Check out the article, which features my 68-country study with Shane Martin and Kaare Strøm: bit.ly/4dU8incwww.business-standard.com/elections/lo...
For this WSJ video, I joined Jon Emont to discuss why the world's leaders are getting older—and what it means for policies and political engagement. Related research: 🗳️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...www.charlesmcclean.com/s/Does-the-U...www.cambridge.org/core/journal...on.wsj.com/4bDVZd2
In our latest for Pacific Forum, Sheila Smith and I dive into the busy start of 2024 for US-Japan relations—from regional responses to Taiwan's election in January to the US-Japan and US-Japan-Philippines summits in April 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇹🇼🇵🇭 cc.pacforum.org/2024/05/wash...
But the headlines for this first quarter of 2024 clearly belong to Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and President Joe Biden. Kishida visited the US from April 8 to 14 for a formal State Visit, the first i...
📖 Now in print @bjpols.bsky.social 🌎 Using new data on 68 democracies, we find: - 🇺🇸 ranks #1 in incumbency 🥇 - ⬆️ corruption -> ⬇️ incumbency - ⬆️ legislative resources -> ⬆️ incumbency (but only when corruption is low)
How do parents and non-parents decide how children ought to be raised? In a new paper w/Allison Anoll & Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, we argue social movements–like Black Lives Matter–can shape these choices, unpacking the often black-boxed step in child socialization. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Thank you to our 5 speakers for joining our Yale MacMillan CEAS series on Japanese Politics & the Global Political Economy! Kiyoteru Tsutsui (Stanford) Celeste Arrington (GW) @myhlee.bsky.social@washingtonpost.com@nickkapur.bsky.social@adampliff.bsky.social (Georgetown)
