Leonard Schoppa

Biographic Data

ID301313
NAMELeonard Schoppa
GIVEN NAMESLeonard
FAMILY NAMESchoppa
SIGNATURESCHOPPA L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Virginia
ORCID0000-0002-4749-0452
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS253
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX6

  • Taking Voice Seriously

    Open AccessLeonard SchoppaARTICLEPerspectives on Politics2022References: 17

    Fifty years after the publication of Exit, Voice, and Loyalty , Albert Hirschman’s work is receiving renewed attention in leading journals, including efforts to develop formal models and new strands of democratic theory that capture his insights. These efforts have led some to conclude that power flows exclusively from an ability to exit at low cost, and that we can only empower the weaker elements in society by giving them more choices—more abil…

  • The Winner of the 2020 ISS-OUP Prize

    Open AccessLeonard Schoppa, Leonard J SchoppaARTICLESocial Science Japan Journal2021

    The editors of Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ) at the Institute of Social Science (ISS) of the University of Tokyo have joined forces with Oxford University Press (OUP) to award the ISS–OUP Prize to the author of the best article published in SSJJ each year. The prize includes ¥25,000 in books and a year’s subscription to SSJJ. With the author’s consent, the winning paper may be translated into Japanese and published in the Institute’s Shakai…

  • The Policy Response to Declining Fertility Rates in Japan: Relying on Logic and Hope Over Evidence

    Open AccessLeonard Schoppa, Leonard J SchoppaARTICLESocial Science Japan Journal2020

    Why are women (and men) in advanced industrialized nations having fewer babies, and is there anything society can do to encourage more procreation? Over the past three decades, governments have become interested in these questions as societies squeezed between an aging baby boomer generation and a shrinking base of taxpayers have searched for ways to ‘cure’ their declining fertility problem. Social science has not identified any consistent policy…

  • Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work by Steven K. Vogel

    Leonard Schoppa, Leonard J SchoppaARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2019

    Reviewed by: Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work by Steven K. Vogel Leonard J. Schoppa (bio) Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work. By Steven K. Vogel. Oxford University Press, New York, 2018. x, 187 pages. $34.95, cloth. Steven Vogel has written an ambitious book that challenges the orthodox view that "regulation" stands in opposition to "markets," by reflecting on economic reforms in Japan and the United States over the 35 y…

  • Policies for an aging/low fertility society

    Leonard SchoppaCHAPTERSpeaking of epidemics in Chinese…2015

  • Residential Mobility and Local Civic Engagement in Japan and the United States: Divergent Paths to School

    Open AccessLeonard SchoppaARTICLEComparative Political Studies2013Cited by: 3References: 24

    What drives differences across countries in levels of civic engagement? Both the United States and Japan have been described as having high levels of civic engagement, but a variety of measures show that the type of involvement that is most common varies. Americans join and contribute to national political groups, but membership in PTAs and volunteer firefighting units is low and declining. Japanese participate at a much lower level in national a…

  • The Evolution of Japan's Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change

    Leonard Schoppa, Leonard J SchoppaBOOKEvolution of Japan's Party System2011

    In August 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won a crushing victory over the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), thus bringing to an end over fifty years of one-party dominance. Around the world, the victory of the DPJ was seen as a radical break with Japan's past. However, this dramatic political shift was not as sudden as it appeared, but rather the culmination of a series of changes first set in motion in the early 1990s.The Evolution of Ja…

  • Exit, voice, and family policy in Japan: Limited changes despite broad recognition of the declining fertility problem

    Open AccessLeonard SchoppaARTICLEJournal of European Social Policy2010Cited by: 6References: 2

    Japanese policymakers have been troubled by the ‘declining fertility problem’ for two decades, ever since a sharp drop in births raised public awareness of the issue in 1990. This article explores why it took a full decade before government officials diagnosed the problem and called for a shift toward gender-egalitarian labour market policies in order to reverse the fertility decline. It also asks why the prescribed changes have yet to be adopted…

  • Japan's Aggressive Legalism: Law and Foreign Trade Politics beyond the WTO

    Leonard Schoppa, L J SCHOPPAARTICLEInternational Relations of the…2009

    Japan has been trying hard, for at least 20 years, to shed its image as a ‘reactive state’. Kent Calder assigned this label to Japanese foreign economic policy in the late 1980s after watching the nation struggle with international pressure to liberalize its market. Japan was not able to act proactively to liberalize on its own, and even when faced with complaints, it delayed action until the gaiatsu built up to the point where it was on the verg…

  • Shoshi Korei Shakai no Mienai Kakusa (Invisible Inequalities in an Aging, Low Fertility Society)

    Leonard Schoppa, L J SCHOPPAARTICLESocial Science Japan Journal2008

    Journal Article Shōshi Kōrei Shakai no Mienai Kakusa (Invisible Inequalities in an Aging, Low Fertility Society) Get access Shōshi Kōrei Shakai no Mienai Kakusa (Invisible Inequalities in an Aging, Low Fertility Society), by Shirahase Sawako. Tokyo: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai, 2005, 224 pp., ¥3,800 (hardcover ISBN 4-13-051121-1) Leonard J. SCHOPPA Leonard J. SCHOPPA University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…

  • Does Lower Fertility Threaten Feminism

    Leonard SchoppaARTICLECurrent History2006

    The ability to opt out of—or at least to postpone well into their 30s—the challenge of working while still having children means few young women today are motivated to demand changes in social policy or even to demand that men do more housework

  • Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan's System of Social Protection

    Lucian W Pye, Leonard Schoppa et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2006Cited by: 14

  • Race to the Bottom? Japanese Multinational Firms and the Future of the Lifetime Employment System

    Open AccessLeonard SchoppaARTICLEJapan focus2006

    In January the leaders of two great automobile companies made separate appearances before the media of their respective countries to demonstrate how Japanese- and American-style capitalism continue to differ.In the United States, Bill Ford, the chairman and chief executive of the automobile company that bears his family name, announced that his firm is embarking on a recovery plan that involves laying off 30,000 workers over the next six years, m…

  • Japan in Crisis (review)

    Leonard Schoppa, Leonard J SchoppaARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2004

    Reviewed by: Japan in Crisis Leonard J. Schoppa (bio) Japan in Crisis. By S. Javed Maswood. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2002. ix, 179 pages. $65.00. If you slept through the 1990s and missed all of the news about Japan's economic problems—the implosion of the bubble economy, the stagnant growth, the political turmoil after the split of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Asian financial crisis, the banking crisis, and the government's attempts …

  • Agricultural Trade: A Glass Half Full

    Open AccessLeonard SchoppaARTICLEInternational Studies Review2004References: 3

    Most scholars and practitioners who write about agricultural trade look at the slow pace of liberalization in this area and see a glass half empty. In the Tokyo Round of the 1970s, which saw great progress in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods, agriculture was treated as a side issue. Europe refused to modify its trade distorting Common Agricultural Policy, and Japan kept in place a large number of quotas on goods ranging from oranges and ric…

  • Social Contracts under Stress: The Middle Classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of the Century

    Sawako Shirahase, Olivier Zunz et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2003

  • Interaction Effects in Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: Theory and Evidence From Germany, Japan, and Italy

    Open AccessKaren Cox, Karen E Cox et al.ARTICLEComparative Political Studies2002Cited by: 127References: 21

    The past decade has witnessed a surprising growth in the popularity of mixed-member electoral systems. Under these systems, voters choose representatives simultaneously under both proportional representation (PR) and single-member district plurality (SMDP) rules. It is widely accepted that SMDP rules tend to winnow competition down toward two large parties, and evidence from mixed systems suggests that this Duvergerian “gravity” reduces the numbe…

  • Japan, the Reluctant Reformer

    Leonard Schoppa, Leonard J SchoppaARTICLEForeign Affairs2001Cited by: 1

    At the end of last year, Japan's citizens, having struggled for years with a bitter recession, were hit with still more bad news: another arbiter of international opinion had forecast their country's imminent decline. In its Global Trends 2015 report, the cia predicted that, in view of China's ongoing rise, Japan will have difficulty maintaining its current position as the world's third largest economy [after the United States and Europe]. Just a…

  • Advice and Consent: The Politics of Consultation in Japan

    Leonard Schoppa, Leonard J Schoppa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2000

    Preface 1. Interest-group politics in Japan: competing interpretations 2. The Shingikai system 3. Shingikai in the spotlight 4. Amending Japan's labor constitution: revision of the labor standards act 5. Regulating the invisible giant: the introduction of financial futures markets 6. The god that fell: reducing the price of rice 7. Comparisons and conclusions

  • The Social Context in Coercive International Bargaining

    Open AccessLeonard Schoppa, Leonard J SchoppaARTICLEInternational Organization1999Cited by: 25References: 12

    Although international relations scholarship emphasizing the role of social constructs such as norms and culture has established a beachhead in the area of security studies, it has yet to take on another bastion of the rational materialist approach: studies of coercive international bargaining. Scholarship in this area, ranging from the work of Thomas Schelling to James Fearon, has long argued that bargaining outcomes reflect the material costs a…

  • Bargaining with Japan: What American Pressure Can and Cannot Do

    Edward J Lincoln, Leonard Schoppa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1998

  • Awards

    Open AccessDavid Morgan, Henry Bellmon et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics1997

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  • Activities and Appointments

    Open AccessGeorge Breslauer, George Hoffman et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics1997

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  • Divided Sun: Miti and the Breakdown of Japanese High-Tech Industrial Policy, 1975-1993. Scott Callon Japan Under Construction: Corruption, Politics, and Public Works. Brian Woodall Restrained Trade: C…

    Leonard SchoppaARTICLEThe Journal of Politics1997

  • Bargaining with Japan: What American Pressure Can and Cannot Do

    Richard N Cooper, Leonard Schoppa et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1997Cited by: 3