Susan J. Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics
Harvard University, Department of Government
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SUSAN J. PHARR Office: Current:
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WORK EXPERIENCE Visiting Scholar, Research Program, East-West Center, Honolulu, June-July 2000 and February-March 2002 Posco Fellow, Research Program, East-West Center, Honolulu, June-August 1999 Visiting Research Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University, Tokyo, 1995-1996 Harvard University:
Holder, Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
1985-1987 Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Government and Japan Institute, Harvard University, 1984 Senior Social Scientist, Asia Bureau, Agency for International Development, Department of State, 1983 Visiting Guest Scholar, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1982 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 1981-82 Visiting Foreign Research Scholar, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, 1978 Staff Associate, Social Science Research Council, New York, 1974-76 Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 1974 Visiting Foreign Research Scholar, Institute for International Relations, Sophia University, Tokyo, 1971-72 Editorial Associate, Encyclopedia Britannica, Tokyo, 1971 Program Associate, Council on International Educational Exchange, New York, 1970
2000-02 Principal Investigator, Grants from the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission and the Center for Global Partnership for a project on "Civil Society in Japan," the first stage of a three-year project joint with the East-West Center, and in cooperation with Keio University, on "Civil Society in the Asia-Pacific." 1999 (Summer) Posco Fellow, Research Program, East-West Center. 1996-99 Member, Steering Committee, for project on "Social Capital, Democracy, and Public Affairs," administered by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and funded by grants from the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Carnegie Foundation. 1997-98 Invitee to the Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, as co-organizer (with Robert D. Putnam) of a conference, June 29-July 3, 1998, on "Public Trust and Governance in the Trilateral Democracies." 1996-98 Co-principal Investigator for grant from the National Science Foundation for a binational Japan-U.S. project on "Japan's Political Reform: Electoral Institution Change and Political Culture." 1996-96 Fellow of the Abe Fellowship Program, Social Science Research Council, for project on "Political Ethics and Public Trust in Japan, Italy, and the United States." 1995-96 Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Studies, Harvard University. 1995-97 Co-Principal Investigator for grant from the Mellon Foundation on "The Performance of Democracies." 1994-97 Grant from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation for project on "Yen for the Earth: Japan's China Environment Initiative." 1990-96 Principal Investigator for grant to the Harvard Program on U.S.-Japan Relations from Akiyama Aiseikan Corporation for research on "Japan and the Third World." 1986-87 Principal Investigator for grants from Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, U.S. Agency for International Development and Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission for international project on "Japan and the U.S. in Third World Development." 1986-88 Principal Investigator, grant from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission through the Social Science Research Council for binational project on "Media and Politics in Japan in Comparative Perspective." 1966-67 Woodrow Wilson Fellow 1965 Phi Beta Kappa
Chair, Departmental Services Committee, American Political Science Association, 2002- Member, Project on "America's Role in Asia", headed by Casimir Yost and Ezra F. Vogel (a bipartisan, 40-member group of public officials and academics which made recommendations to presidential candidates in the 2000 election), 2000. Member, Executive Committee, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association, 1999-2001. Member, Board of Directors, Give2Asia, 2001-; Secretary of Board, 2001-. Member, Board of Trustees, Trust and Development Committee, American Political Science Association, 1998-2000. Consultant to Review East Asian Studies Program, University of California, San Diego, 1997. Member, American Advisory Committee, International House of Japan, 1996-. Member, Board of Trustees, The Asia Foundation, 1994-; Secretary of the Board, 2000- ; Member, Program Committee, 1994-; Development Committee, 1998-; Member, Nominating Committee, 1998-. Editorial Board Member, The Journal of International Political Economy, 1994-. Board Member, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Scholar Program) and Chair, Northeast Asia Committee, Fulbright, 1991-1995. Board Member, Overseas Development Council, 1991-1994. Member, Advisory Panel on "Assessment on Technology, Innovation and U.S. Trade," Office of Technology Assessment, Congress, 1990-1992. President, New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 1989. Member, Committee on Japan, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, 1988-1990. Member, Editorial Board, The Washington Quarterly, 1987-1996. Member, American Advisory Committee, Japan Foundation, 1985-1987. Member, Committee on Governmental Relations, Association for Asian Studies, 1984-86. Associate Editor, Journal of Asian Studies, 1983-85. Member, Joint Committee on Japanese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, 1980-1985. Member, Selection Committee, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Study, Stanford University, 1980. Member, Northeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, 1976-79.
BOOKS The State of Civil Society in Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003 (co-editor with Frank J. Schwartz). Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000 (co-editor with Robert D. Putnam). Research volume resulting from a conference sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. 362 pp. Media and Politics in Japan. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, March l996 (co-editor with Ellis S. Krauss). Research volume sponsored by the Social Science Research Council. 430 pp. Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990. 266 pp. (Selected by the Press as a Lilienthal Book.) (Paperback edition, October 1992.) Nihon no josei katsudo-ka (Political Women in Japan). Translated by Emiko Kaya. Tokyo: Keiso shobo, September 1989. (Japanese translation of book published by University of California Press in 1981.) Political Women in Japan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981. 239 pp. (Paperback edition, 1982).
"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, MA: 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.
General Discussant, Workshop on "Civil Society and Political Change in Asia," East-West Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, October 24-28, 2002. General Discussant, Workshop on "Civil Society and Political Change in Asia," East-West Center, Honolulu, March 16-19, 2002. Paper, Workshop on "Party Reform in One-Party Systems," organized by the Carnegie Endowment, Central Party School of the Communist Party, Beijing, China, December 17, 2001. Presentation, "Is a 'Global Civilization' Emerging?" Session with former Vice President Al Gore, Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, October 5, 2001. Presentation on "IT and Civil Society in Asia," Conference on "IT and Change in Asia," organized by the National University of Singapore and the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, August 27-30, 2001. Organizer, with Jeffry Frieden, Robert D. Putnam, and Devesh Kapur, Weatherhead Center for International AffairsConference on "Citizen and State in an Age of Globalization," Talloires, France, June 22-24, 2001. Keynote Speaker and organizer, with Takashi Inoguchi, Colloquium and Workshop on "Civil Society and Social Capital," Tokyo, June 11-13, 2001. Presentation, ARCO Forum Panel on "Japan: Is the Sun Setting?" Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 3, 2001. Presentation, Conference on "Democratic and Political Change in Mongolia," organized by The Asia Foundation, Ulanbaatar, Mongolia, September 2000. Paper, "Democratic Discontent in Japan and America" (with Russell Dalton), Conference on "Losing Faith in Politics," organized by John Creighton Campbell and sponsored by the Center for Global Partnership, Quebec City, August 2000. Lecture, "Political Ethics and Foreign Policy," 50th Anniversary Lecture Series, Department of International Relations, Australian National University, Canberra, September 16, 1999. Lecture, "Global Perspectives on Leadership," United Nations University/ Institute for Leadership, Amman, Jordan, April 1999. Paper, "Are Citizens Cynical or Lax? Corruption Tolerance and One-Party Dominance," Conference on Political Parties and Corruption, Schuman Center, European University, Florence, March 1999. Presentation on "The Monica Factor in US-Japan Relations," International Institute of Economic Studies, Tokyo, January 28, 1999. Presentation, "Charles Longfellow in the Meiji Restoration," Longfellow House Celebration, Cambridge, MA, October 4, 1998. Presentation, Panel on "Social and Political Aspects of the Asian Financial Crisis," Symposium for Foundation Presidents, organized by The Asia Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York, October 19, 1998. Paper, "Empty Pockets, Empty Lives, or Political Misconduct? Explaining Public Distrust in Japan," Panel on "The Japanese Electorate and Political Change," chaired by Bradley Richardson, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, September 5, 1998. Paper, "Officials' Misconduct and Public Distrust: Japan and the Trilateral Democracies," conference on "Public Trust and Governance in the Trilateral Democracies," Rockefeller Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, June 29- July 3, 1998. Presenter, Panel on the "Asian Financial Crisis," organized by Marvin Kalb, Washington, D.C., February 12, 1998. Presentation, "On the Politics of Women's Rights During the Occupation of Japan," Plenary Session, Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 15, 1997. Presentation, "Political Ethics, Public Trust, and Videocracy in Japan," Shorenstein Center for Press and Politics, Harvard University, February 24, 1997. Presentation, Panel on "Political Transitions in Italy," Center for European Studies, Harvard University, February 7-8, 1997. Chair and organizer, Plenary Session on "Women Political Leaders in Asia," International Studies Association-Japan Political Science Association Joint Symposium, Makiharu, Japan, September 21, 1996. Paper, "Japan's Leadership: Shaping A New Asia," for panel at the International Studies Association Meeting, Makiharu, Japan, September 20, 1996. Presentation, "Political Ethics and Public Trust," Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., May 2, l996. Presentation, "Political Ethics in Comparative Perspective," Ph.D. Kenkyuukai, International House of Japan, Tokyo, April 1, 1996. Briefing Session on Japanese Politics for President Bill Clinton, White House, Washington, D.C., July 1, l993 (One of three briefers in a session with the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, National Security Adviser, and White House staff preparatory to the President's first trip to Japan since holding office). Co-organizer (with Jeffrey Sachs) and presenter, Conference on "The Relevance of the Japanese Economic Model for Russia," organized by Harvard University and Asahi Newspaper, Moscow, June 4-5, 1992. Other presentations and lectures at University of Michigan, Yale University, University of California?Berkeley, University of Chicago, DePauw College, Colgate College, Duke University, Columbia University, Cornell University, University of Hawaii, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, University of British Columbia, Monash University, University of New South Wales, University of Tokyo, Meiji University, Keio University, Moscow State University, Chuo University, University of Delhi, East?West Center, Tsukuba University, University of California?San Diego, University of Washington, St. Antony's College, Oxford, and elsewhere.
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