Fabian Drixler
Biographic Data
| ID | 334950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fabian Drixler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fabian |
| FAMILY NAME | Drixler |
| SIGNATURE | DRIXLER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fictive Politics
No systematic framework exists to analyze the different forms of fictions in politics. We develop the concept of fictive politics to illuminate how actors simulate selective, alternative, or entirely fictional representations of reality while dissimulating incompatible facts. We distinguish three ideal types: deceptions, where audiences are unaware that they are facing a fiction; veiled facts, where audiences suspect a fiction but choose not to p…
Façade Fictions
Around 1900, at least 97 percent of homicide victims in Japan were newborn children. Official statistics obscured this fact by reporting only a handful of infanticides each year, but they also preserved it in the guise of impossibly frequent stillbirths. We argue that this striking failure of law enforcement did not reflect insufficient state capacity. The statistics are best understood as the result of a performance, jointly delivered by subject…
The Politics of Migration in Tokugawa Japan
Between 1790 and 1868, tens of thousands of settlers migrated from Hokuriku to the North Kanto and the Northeast, usually under the active encouragement of local authorities trying to reverse recent population declines. This migration faced formidable obstacles. Governments in Hokuriku often opposed the departure of their subjects, and in the East, many local communities did not want outsiders to settle in their midst. It was primarily networks o…
Hidden in Plain Sight
Around 1900, an extraordinary number of stillbirths appeared in Japan's statistical yearbooks. This article investigates possible biological explanations but concludes that Japan's anomalous stillbirth rates were primarily the result of the deliberate misreporting of infanticides and abortions. On the basis of an international comparison spanning five centuries, it estimates that between 1886 and 1940, Japanese parents filed between 1.7 and 2.8 m…
A lost family-planning regime in eighteenth-century Ceylon
Based on Dutch colonial registers (thombos), this paper reconstructs fertility for two districts in Ceylon, 1756-68. It overcomes challenges in data quality by establishing the outer bounds of plausible estimates in a series of scenarios. Among these, total fertility rates (TFRs) averaged 5.5 in one district, but only 2.7 in the other. These figures exclude the victims of infanticide, a custom noted in European travelogues between about 1660 and …
Conjuring the Ghosts of Missing Children
This article quantifies the frequency of infanticide and abortion in one region of Japan by comparing observed fertility in a sample of 4.9 million person-years (1660–1872) with a Monte Carlo simulation of how many conceptions and births that population should have experienced. The simulation uses empirical values for the determinants of fertility from Eastern Japan itself as well as the best available studies of comparable populations. This proc…
Michelle T. King. Between Birth and Death
This elegantly written, strikingly illustrated book analyzes foreign and domestic perceptions of infanticide in China, with a focus on the years between the First Opium War and the Nanjing Decade. The chapters spiral outward from that intimate moment between birth and death. After a discussion of the choices mothers made amid the expectations of their husbands and elders, Michelle T. King moves to the efforts of local elite men to persuade people…
Hidden in Plain Sight
Around 1900, an extraordinary number of stillbirths appeared in Japan's statistical yearbooks. This article investigates possible biological explanations but concludes that Japan's anomalous stillbirth rates were primarily the result of the deliberate misreporting of infanticides and abortions. On the basis of an international comparison spanning five centuries, it estimates that between 1886 and 1940, Japanese parents filed between 1.7 and 2.8 m…
A lost family-planning regime in eighteenth-century Ceylon
Based on Dutch colonial registers (thombos), this paper reconstructs fertility for two districts in Ceylon, 1756-68. It overcomes challenges in data quality by establishing the outer bounds of plausible estimates in a series of scenarios. Among these, total fertility rates (TFRs) averaged 5.5 in one district, but only 2.7 in the other. These figures exclude the victims of infanticide, a custom noted in European travelogues between about 1660 and …
Conjuring the Ghosts of Missing Children
This article quantifies the frequency of infanticide and abortion in one region of Japan by comparing observed fertility in a sample of 4.9 million person-years (1660–1872) with a Monte Carlo simulation of how many conceptions and births that population should have experienced. The simulation uses empirical values for the determinants of fertility from Eastern Japan itself as well as the best available studies of comparable populations. This proc…
Façade Fictions
Around 1900, at least 97 percent of homicide victims in Japan were newborn children. Official statistics obscured this fact by reporting only a handful of infanticides each year, but they also preserved it in the guise of impossibly frequent stillbirths. We argue that this striking failure of law enforcement did not reflect insufficient state capacity. The statistics are best understood as the result of a performance, jointly delivered by subject…
The Politics of Migration in Tokugawa Japan
Between 1790 and 1868, tens of thousands of settlers migrated from Hokuriku to the North Kanto and the Northeast, usually under the active encouragement of local authorities trying to reverse recent population declines. This migration faced formidable obstacles. Governments in Hokuriku often opposed the departure of their subjects, and in the East, many local communities did not want outsiders to settle in their midst. It was primarily networks o…
Conjuring the Ghosts of Missing Children
This article quantifies the frequency of infanticide and abortion in one region of Japan by comparing observed fertility in a sample of 4.9 million person-years (1660–1872) with a Monte Carlo simulation of how many conceptions and births that population should have experienced. The simulation uses empirical values for the determinants of fertility from Eastern Japan itself as well as the best available studies of comparable populations. This proc…
Michelle T. King. Between Birth and Death
This elegantly written, strikingly illustrated book analyzes foreign and domestic perceptions of infanticide in China, with a focus on the years between the First Opium War and the Nanjing Decade. The chapters spiral outward from that intimate moment between birth and death. After a discussion of the choices mothers made amid the expectations of their husbands and elders, Michelle T. King moves to the efforts of local elite men to persuade people…
The Politics of Migration in Tokugawa Japan
Between 1790 and 1868, tens of thousands of settlers migrated from Hokuriku to the North Kanto and the Northeast, usually under the active encouragement of local authorities trying to reverse recent population declines. This migration faced formidable obstacles. Governments in Hokuriku often opposed the departure of their subjects, and in the East, many local communities did not want outsiders to settle in their midst. It was primarily networks o…
Hidden in Plain Sight
Around 1900, an extraordinary number of stillbirths appeared in Japan's statistical yearbooks. This article investigates possible biological explanations but concludes that Japan's anomalous stillbirth rates were primarily the result of the deliberate misreporting of infanticides and abortions. On the basis of an international comparison spanning five centuries, it estimates that between 1886 and 1940, Japanese parents filed between 1.7 and 2.8 m…
A lost family-planning regime in eighteenth-century Ceylon
Based on Dutch colonial registers (thombos), this paper reconstructs fertility for two districts in Ceylon, 1756-68. It overcomes challenges in data quality by establishing the outer bounds of plausible estimates in a series of scenarios. Among these, total fertility rates (TFRs) averaged 5.5 in one district, but only 2.7 in the other. These figures exclude the victims of infanticide, a custom noted in European travelogues between about 1660 and …
Façade Fictions
Around 1900, at least 97 percent of homicide victims in Japan were newborn children. Official statistics obscured this fact by reporting only a handful of infanticides each year, but they also preserved it in the guise of impossibly frequent stillbirths. We argue that this striking failure of law enforcement did not reflect insufficient state capacity. The statistics are best understood as the result of a performance, jointly delivered by subject…
Fictive Politics
No systematic framework exists to analyze the different forms of fictions in politics. We develop the concept of fictive politics to illuminate how actors simulate selective, alternative, or entirely fictional representations of reality while dissimulating incompatible facts. We distinguish three ideal types: deceptions, where audiences are unaware that they are facing a fiction; veiled facts, where audiences suspect a fiction but choose not to p…
Sociology (6 works) · Demography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Politics (3 works)