Below is a selected list of Susan Pharr's published articles and book chapters. Click on underlined titles (in red) to view an online version.

"Targeting by an Activist State: Japan as a Civil Society Model." In The State of Civil Society in Japan, Frank J. Schwartz and Susan J. Pharr, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

"New Terrain for Civil Society" (with Frank J. Schwartz). Centerpiece 16(1):2-4.

"In the Eye of the Storm: Japan during the 'Lost Decade,' and After." Harvard Magazine. Vol. 104, No. 2 (November 2001), pp. 37-39.

"A Quarter-Century of Declining Confidence" (with Robert D. Putnam and Russell J. Dalton). In Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, eds., The Global Divergence of Democracies. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

"Corruption and Public Trust: Perspectives on Japan and East Asia," Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Volume 4, Issue 2 (Summer 2000), pp. 54-56.

"Why is Democracy More Popular than Democracies?" (with Robert D. Putnam). Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume XLVI, Number 38, May 26, 2000.

"Introduction: What's Troubling the Trilateral Democracies." In Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam, eds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, May 2000 (with Robert D. Putnam and Russell J. Dalton).

"Officials' Misconduct and Public Distrust: Japan and the Liberal Democracies." In Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam, eds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, May 2000.

"Trouble in the Advanced Democracies? A Quarter-Century of Declining Confidence" (with Robert D. Putnam and Russell Dalton). Journal of Democracy, Volume 11, No. 2 (April 2000), pp. 5-25.

"Corruption and Public Trust: Perspectives on Japan and East Asia." East-West Center Working Papers, Politics and Security Series, No. 1, January 2000.

"'Moralism' and the Gender Gap: Judgments of Political Ethics in Japan." Political Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1998.

"Yen for the Earth: Japan's Pro-Active China Environment Policy." In Michael McElroy, Chris Nielsen, and Peter Lydon, eds., Energizing China: Reconciling Environment Protection and Economic Growth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Committee on the Environment [distributed by Harvard University Press], 1998. (with Ming Wan).

"Public Trust and Democracy in Japan," in Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Philip Zelikow, and David King, eds, Why People Don't Trust Government. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, September 1997.

"Japanese Videocracy," Press/Politics, Volume 2, No. 1, February 1997.

"Japan's Leadership: Shaping A New Asia." In Hideo Sato and I. M. Destler, eds., Leadership Sharing in the New International System: Japan and the United States. Tsukuba: University of Tsukuba, 1996. (with Ming Wan). Research volume resulting from a binational project of the Social Science Research Council and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

"Japanese Aid in the New World Order." In Mary Bullock, ed., Japan: A New Kind of Superpower. Washington, D.C.: Johns Hopkins/Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1994.

"Robots, Greens, Feminists? Will New Forces Transform Japan by the Year 2000." In Joseph S. Nye, Jr., ed., Harness the Rising Sun: An American Strategy for Managing Japan's Rise as a Global Power. Aspen Strategy Institute and University Press of America, 1994.

"Japan's Defensive Foreign Policy and the Politics of Burdensharing." In Gerald L. Curtis, ed., Japan's Foreign Policy After the Cold War: Coping with Change. Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1993.

"Josei sanseiken to danjo byodo o kitei shita shin-kenpo seitei no seiji katei (The Making of the New Constitution Establishing Women's Voting Rights and Equality of Men and Women)," U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, No. 12, July 1992.

"Evolving U.S.-Japan Relations: Toward a Global Partnership in Development." In Richard Grant, ed., Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Partnership in the 1990s: Ensuring the Alliance in an Unsure World, 14, No. 4, Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1992.

"Shokuba ni okeru toso-ochakumi no hanran (Struggles in the Workplace-A Tea-pourers' Rebellion)," Leviathan, 8, Spring 1991:59-82.

"Foreign Aid and U.S.-Japanese Cooperation in Asia," Proceedings of the Tsukuba Symposium on Structural Changes in East Asia and International Relations, Tsukuba University, 1990.

"Technical Assistance from Japan and the United States to the Developing World: Looking to the Future" (with Margarita Abe), Occasional Paper of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, 1990.

"Resolving Social Conflicts: A Comparative View of Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations in Japan." In Yoshio Sugimoto and Ross E. Mouer, eds., Constructs for Understanding Japan. London: Kegan Paul International, 1989.

Congressional Testimony on Japan's Development Role before the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives Hearings on United States-Japan Relations: The Impact of Negotiated Market Openings. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1989.

"Japan and the World: The Debate in Japan," Harvard International Review Vol. X, No. 4, April/May 1988.

"Japan in 1986: A Landmark Year for the LDP" (with Takako Kishima), Asian Survey, Winter 1987.

"Coping with Crisis: Environmental Regulation in Japan and the U.S." (with Joe Badaracco). In Thomas McCraw, ed., America versus Japan: The Business-Government Connection. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1986.

"Japan in 1985: The Nakasone Era Peaks," Asian Survey, Winter 1986.

"After Nakasone: The Succession Struggle Mounts," Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, January 6, l986.

"The Politics of Women's Rights During the Allied Occupation of Japan." In Robert E. Ward and Sakamoto Yoshikazu, eds., Policy and Planning During the Allied Occupation of Japan. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press (Japanese language version), 1986 and Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii (English language version), 1987.

"Status Conflict: The Rebellion of the Tea Pourers." In Ellis S. Krauss, Thomas Rohlen, and Patricia Steinhoff, eds., Conflict in Japan. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1984.

"Japanese Women Today," in Encyclopedia of Japan. New York: Kodansha, 1983.

"Liberal Democrats in Disarray: Intergenerational Conflict in the Conservative Camp." In Terry E. MacDougall, ed., Political Leadership in Contemporary Japan. Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies, No. 1, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1982.

"Tea and Power: Anatomy of a Conflict." In Jean F. O'Barr, ed., Perspectives on Power: Women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1982.

"Bureaucratic Politics and Social Reform in Occupied Japan." In L.H. Redford, ed., The Occupation of Japan: The Impact of Social Reform. Norfolk, VA: The MacArthur Memorial, 1981.

"Japanese Women in the 1980s." In Bradley M. Richardson and Taizo Ueda, eds., Business and Society in Japan. New York: Praeger, 1981.

"Ethel B. Weed." In Notable American Women. Vol. 4, Barbara Sicherman, ed., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.

"Nihon no Josei Seiji Katsudoka: Raifu Saikuru o Tsujite no Yakuwari Konfurikuto," (Japanese Women Political Activists: Role Conflict through the Life Cycle) in Takenaka Kazuro ed., Gendai Shakai Ron (Essays on Contemporary Sociology). Tokyo: Hyoronsha, 1980.

"Soldiers as Feminists: Debate within Occupation Ranks over Women's Rights Policies in Japan." In Merry I. White and Barbara Molony, eds., Proceedings of the Tokyo Symposium on Women. Tokyo: International Group for the Study of Women, 1979.

"Gendai Nihon no Josei Seiji-teki na Kodo," (Political Behavior of Contemporary Japanese Women). In Distinguished Lecturer Series of the Political Science Faculty of Meiji University. Tokyo: Meiji University Press, 1978.

"A Radical U.S. Experiment: Women's Rights Laws and the Occupation of Japan." In L.H. Redford, ed., The Occupation of Japan: Impact of Legal Reform. Norfolk, VA: The MacArthur Memorial, 1978.

"Feminisuto to shite no Heitai-tachi, " (Soldiers as Feminists), in International Women Studies Conference Committee, Kokusai Josei Gakkai 78 Tokyo Kaigi Hokokusho (Transactions of the International Women Studies Conference: Tokyo, 1978). Tokyo: International Christian University Press, 1978.

"Jinbutsu Koryu no Riso to Genjitsu," (Ideal and Practice in International Exchanges), Kokusai Koryu, No. 17, May 1978 (with Abe Yoshiya, Kato Mikio, and Ikeya Sadao).

"Japan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives." In Janet Z. Giele and Audrey C. Smock, eds., Women: Role and Status in Eight Countries. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1977.

"The Japanese Woman: Evolving Views of Life and Role." In Lewis Austin, ed., Japan--The Paradox of Progress. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. (Reprinted in Sylvia A. Chipp and Justin Green, eds., Women in Asia. Pittsburgh: Pennsylvania State Press, 1980.)

"Women in Japan," Current History, Vol. 68, No. 404, April 1975.

"An American-Japanese Partnership in Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities," (with Gerald L. Curtis). In Social Science Research Council Items, Vol. 29, No. 1, March, 1975.

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