Frances Rosenbluth
Biographic Data
| ID | 994102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances Rosenbluth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenbluth |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENBLUTH F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1009 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Voter responses to female candidates' voice pitch: Experimental evidence from Japan
Politicians' voice pitch is known to affect voters' evaluation of the candidates in the US. But to what extent is this true outside of the American context? To address this question, we conducted an original survey experiment in Japan. Our findings are threefold. First, in contrast to previous studies, voters in Japan do not systematically prefer lower-pitched over higher-pitched female politicians. Second, our findings suggest heterogeneity in t…
Hawkish Partisans: How Political Parties Shape Nationalist Conflicts in China and Japan
It is well known that regime types affect international conflicts. This article explores political parties as a mechanism through which they do so. Political parties operate in fundamentally different ways in democracies vs. non-democracies, which has consequences for foreign policy. Core supporters of a party in a democracy, if they are hawkish, may be more successful at demanding hawkish behavior from their party representatives than would be t…
Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan
Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself
Are You My Mentor? A Field Experiment on Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Self-Starters
Do public officials respond unequally to requests for career advice? Through a correspondence experiment with 8,189 officials, we examine whether (hypothetical) male and female students who express interest in political careers receive differential responses from public officials. We report three striking findings. First, emails sent by female students were more likely to receive a response than those sent by male students, especially when the of…
The Ties That Double Bind: Social Roles and Women's Underrepresentation in Politics
This paper theorizes three forms of bias that might limit women's representation: outright hostility, double standards, and a double bind whereby desired traits present bigger burdens for women than men. We examine these forms of bias using conjoint experiments derived from several original surveys-a population survey of American voters and two rounds of surveys of American public officials. We find no evidence of outright discrimination or of do…
Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height Inequality
Human osteological data provide a rich, still-to-be-mined source of information about the distribution of nutrition and, by extension, the distribution of political power and economic wealth in societies of long ago. On the basis of data we have collected and analyzed on societies ranging from foraging communities to the ancient Egyptian and modern European monarchies, we find that the shift from hunting and gathering to complex fishing technique…
Regimes and the Rule of Law: Judicial Independence in Comparative Perspective
According to popular wisdom, judicial independence and the rule of law are essential features of modern democracy. Drawing on the growing comparative literature on courts, we unpack this claim by focusing on two broad questions: How does the type of political regime affect judicial independence? Are independent courts, in fact, always essential for establishing the rule of law? In highlighting the role of institutional fragmentation and public op…
Work and Power: The Connection Between Female Labor Force Participation and Female Political Representation
Low levels of female labor force participation contribute to female underrepresentation in democratic polities, both by reinforcing traditional voter attitudes toward women (a demand-side feature) and by constraining the supply of women with professional experience and resources who are capable of mounting credible electoral campaigns. Female labor force participation, however, is only part of the story. Comparative analysis suggests that elector…
Gender and Development: The Japanese Experience in Comparative Perspective
America's Policy toward East Asia: How It Looks from Japan
Despite the unpopularity in Japan of American military unilateralism, Japan has continued to support U.S. actions abroad in order to bolster the bilateral security alliance. Public support in Japan for an active foreign policy reflects realist thinking there about new international threats, as well as changes in domestic politics that shape the public's response to those threats
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Political Economy of Gender: Explaining Cross‐National Variation in the Gender Division of Labor and the Gender Voting Gap
Mainstream political economy has tended to treat the family as a unit when examining the distributional consequences of labor market institutions and of public policy. In a world with high divorce rates, we argue that this simplification is more likely to obscure than to instruct. We find that labor market opportunities for women, which vary systematically with the position of countries in the international division of labor and with the structur…
Welfare Works: Explaining Female Legislative Representation
This study aims to advance our understanding of why women are underrepresented in legislatures around the world, and what accounts for the wide variation over time and across countries. Scholars generally agree on many of the favorable conditions for women to enter parliament, including, inter alia, proportional representation, leftism in government, and female employment. However, the mechanisms that link women's seat shares to the supposed expl…
Short versus Long Coalitions: Electoral Accountability and the Size of the Public Sector
This article examines the policy consequences of the number of parties in government. We argue that parties externalize costs not borne by their support groups. Larger parties thus internalize more costs than small parties because they represent more groups. This argument implies that the public sector should be larger the more parties there are in the government coalition. We test this prediction using yearly time‐series cross‐sectional data fro…
The 2003 Apsa-JPSA Exchange
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Politics of Gender Equality: Explaining Variation in Fertility Levels in Rich Democracies
A consensus has emerged that gender-friendly policies can promote higher fertility in rich democracies (Esping-Andersen 1999). This paper supplies a political explanation for why these fertility-enabling policies diverge across countries. Using Sweden and Germany as our primary case studies, we argue that the strength of the left party's hold on government, rather than economic or social factors, underpins the expansion of the public sector that …
The Domestic Politics of Banking Regulation
This article seeks to ground financial regulatory choices in domestic politics. Based on evidence from twenty-two industrialized countries, we argue that electoral rules—specifically, the extent to which they are centrifugal or centripetal—have a significant effect on whether the banks or their consumers pay for the security of the banking system. Moreover, despite the homogenizing effects of global financial integration, the political dynamics g…
Child Care Policy at the Crossroads: Gender and Welfare State Restructuring
The Electoral Foundations of Japan's Banking Regulation
This article locates Japan's financial policies in the context of electoral incentives. The collapse of Japan's economic bubble in 1990 exposed the rot in the banking system, hidden for decades by a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government intent on maintaining favor with local support groups and protecting inefficient small banks. In a move wholly uncharacteristic of Japan's postwar politics, the LDP ultimately forced the banks to absorb huge l…
Factional Competition for the Party Endorsement: The Case of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party
This Note explores the candidate-endorsement process in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan during its period of hegemony (1955–90). Even in parties without an enduring factional structure such as the LDP, nominations are often troublesome – witness, for example, the reselection controversy in Britain's Labour party at the end of the 1970s or the perennially damaging fights in American primary elections. Moreover, it is easy to understand…
Anatomy of a split: The Liberal Democrats of Japan
This essay investigates the historic split of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party in the summer of 1993, when a substantial minority of LDP members defected to the newly-formed centrist parties Shinto Sakigake and Shinseito. Our primary theoretical inspiration in interpreting this split is drawn from the extensive literature on the stability of European coalition governments. We use this literature to inform both a narrative history of factional str…
Reducing nomination errors: Factional competition and party strategy in Japan
The Electoral Fortunes of Legislative Factions in Japan
The legislative factions of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan are so autonomous that the LDP is typically viewed as a coalition of factions, rather than a unitary party. We focus on the electoral role of these factions, finding that the five main factions differed substantially in electoral success in the 1960-79 period, but have been so closely tied together in the 1980s that differences in their electoral fates are statistically indiscernib…
The Ties That Double Bind: Social Roles and Women's Underrepresentation in Politics
This paper theorizes three forms of bias that might limit women's representation: outright hostility, double standards, and a double bind whereby desired traits present bigger burdens for women than men. We examine these forms of bias using conjoint experiments derived from several original surveys-a population survey of American voters and two rounds of surveys of American public officials. We find no evidence of outright discrimination or of do…
The Political Economy of Gender: Explaining Cross‐National Variation in the Gender Division of Labor and the Gender Voting Gap
Mainstream political economy has tended to treat the family as a unit when examining the distributional consequences of labor market institutions and of public policy. In a world with high divorce rates, we argue that this simplification is more likely to obscure than to instruct. We find that labor market opportunities for women, which vary systematically with the position of countries in the international division of labor and with the structur…
Short versus Long Coalitions: Electoral Accountability and the Size of the Public Sector
This article examines the policy consequences of the number of parties in government. We argue that parties externalize costs not borne by their support groups. Larger parties thus internalize more costs than small parties because they represent more groups. This argument implies that the public sector should be larger the more parties there are in the government coalition. We test this prediction using yearly time‐series cross‐sectional data fro…
Work and Power: The Connection Between Female Labor Force Participation and Female Political Representation
Low levels of female labor force participation contribute to female underrepresentation in democratic polities, both by reinforcing traditional voter attitudes toward women (a demand-side feature) and by constraining the supply of women with professional experience and resources who are capable of mounting credible electoral campaigns. Female labor force participation, however, is only part of the story. Comparative analysis suggests that elector…
Regimes and the Rule of Law: Judicial Independence in Comparative Perspective
According to popular wisdom, judicial independence and the rule of law are essential features of modern democracy. Drawing on the growing comparative literature on courts, we unpack this claim by focusing on two broad questions: How does the type of political regime affect judicial independence? Are independent courts, in fact, always essential for establishing the rule of law? In highlighting the role of institutional fragmentation and public op…
Welfare Works: Explaining Female Legislative Representation
This study aims to advance our understanding of why women are underrepresented in legislatures around the world, and what accounts for the wide variation over time and across countries. Scholars generally agree on many of the favorable conditions for women to enter parliament, including, inter alia, proportional representation, leftism in government, and female employment. However, the mechanisms that link women's seat shares to the supposed expl…
Are You My Mentor? A Field Experiment on Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Self-Starters
Do public officials respond unequally to requests for career advice? Through a correspondence experiment with 8,189 officials, we examine whether (hypothetical) male and female students who express interest in political careers receive differential responses from public officials. We report three striking findings. First, emails sent by female students were more likely to receive a response than those sent by male students, especially when the of…
The Electoral Fortunes of Legislative Factions in Japan
The legislative factions of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan are so autonomous that the LDP is typically viewed as a coalition of factions, rather than a unitary party. We focus on the electoral role of these factions, finding that the five main factions differed substantially in electoral success in the 1960-79 period, but have been so closely tied together in the 1980s that differences in their electoral fates are statistically indiscernib…
Child Care Policy at the Crossroads: Gender and Welfare State Restructuring
Reducing nomination errors: Factional competition and party strategy in Japan
The Domestic Politics of Banking Regulation
This article seeks to ground financial regulatory choices in domestic politics. Based on evidence from twenty-two industrialized countries, we argue that electoral rules—specifically, the extent to which they are centrifugal or centripetal—have a significant effect on whether the banks or their consumers pay for the security of the banking system. Moreover, despite the homogenizing effects of global financial integration, the political dynamics g…
Factional Competition for the Party Endorsement: The Case of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party
This Note explores the candidate-endorsement process in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan during its period of hegemony (1955–90). Even in parties without an enduring factional structure such as the LDP, nominations are often troublesome – witness, for example, the reselection controversy in Britain's Labour party at the end of the 1970s or the perennially damaging fights in American primary elections. Moreover, it is easy to understand…
Anatomy of a split: The Liberal Democrats of Japan
This essay investigates the historic split of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party in the summer of 1993, when a substantial minority of LDP members defected to the newly-formed centrist parties Shinto Sakigake and Shinseito. Our primary theoretical inspiration in interpreting this split is drawn from the extensive literature on the stability of European coalition governments. We use this literature to inform both a narrative history of factional str…
Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height Inequality
Human osteological data provide a rich, still-to-be-mined source of information about the distribution of nutrition and, by extension, the distribution of political power and economic wealth in societies of long ago. On the basis of data we have collected and analyzed on societies ranging from foraging communities to the ancient Egyptian and modern European monarchies, we find that the shift from hunting and gathering to complex fishing technique…
Hawkish Partisans: How Political Parties Shape Nationalist Conflicts in China and Japan
It is well known that regime types affect international conflicts. This article explores political parties as a mechanism through which they do so. Political parties operate in fundamentally different ways in democracies vs. non-democracies, which has consequences for foreign policy. Core supporters of a party in a democracy, if they are hawkish, may be more successful at demanding hawkish behavior from their party representatives than would be t…
Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself
The Electoral Foundations of Japan's Banking Regulation
This article locates Japan's financial policies in the context of electoral incentives. The collapse of Japan's economic bubble in 1990 exposed the rot in the banking system, hidden for decades by a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government intent on maintaining favor with local support groups and protecting inefficient small banks. In a move wholly uncharacteristic of Japan's postwar politics, the LDP ultimately forced the banks to absorb huge l…
Voter responses to female candidates' voice pitch: Experimental evidence from Japan
Politicians' voice pitch is known to affect voters' evaluation of the candidates in the US. But to what extent is this true outside of the American context? To address this question, we conducted an original survey experiment in Japan. Our findings are threefold. First, in contrast to previous studies, voters in Japan do not systematically prefer lower-pitched over higher-pitched female politicians. Second, our findings suggest heterogeneity in t…
The Politics of Gender Equality: Explaining Variation in Fertility Levels in Rich Democracies
A consensus has emerged that gender-friendly policies can promote higher fertility in rich democracies (Esping-Andersen 1999). This paper supplies a political explanation for why these fertility-enabling policies diverge across countries. Using Sweden and Germany as our primary case studies, we argue that the strength of the left party's hold on government, rather than economic or social factors, underpins the expansion of the public sector that …
The Electoral Fortunes of Legislative Factions in Japan
The legislative factions of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan are so autonomous that the LDP is typically viewed as a coalition of factions, rather than a unitary party. We focus on the electoral role of these factions, finding that the five main factions differed substantially in electoral success in the 1960-79 period, but have been so closely tied together in the 1980s that differences in their electoral fates are statistically indiscernib…
Reducing nomination errors: Factional competition and party strategy in Japan
Anatomy of a split: The Liberal Democrats of Japan
This essay investigates the historic split of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party in the summer of 1993, when a substantial minority of LDP members defected to the newly-formed centrist parties Shinto Sakigake and Shinseito. Our primary theoretical inspiration in interpreting this split is drawn from the extensive literature on the stability of European coalition governments. We use this literature to inform both a narrative history of factional str…
Factional Competition for the Party Endorsement: The Case of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party
This Note explores the candidate-endorsement process in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan during its period of hegemony (1955–90). Even in parties without an enduring factional structure such as the LDP, nominations are often troublesome – witness, for example, the reselection controversy in Britain's Labour party at the end of the 1970s or the perennially damaging fights in American primary elections. Moreover, it is easy to understand…
The Electoral Foundations of Japan's Banking Regulation
This article locates Japan's financial policies in the context of electoral incentives. The collapse of Japan's economic bubble in 1990 exposed the rot in the banking system, hidden for decades by a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government intent on maintaining favor with local support groups and protecting inefficient small banks. In a move wholly uncharacteristic of Japan's postwar politics, the LDP ultimately forced the banks to absorb huge l…
Child Care Policy at the Crossroads: Gender and Welfare State Restructuring
The Domestic Politics of Banking Regulation
This article seeks to ground financial regulatory choices in domestic politics. Based on evidence from twenty-two industrialized countries, we argue that electoral rules—specifically, the extent to which they are centrifugal or centripetal—have a significant effect on whether the banks or their consumers pay for the security of the banking system. Moreover, despite the homogenizing effects of global financial integration, the political dynamics g…
The 2003 Apsa-JPSA Exchange
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Politics of Gender Equality: Explaining Variation in Fertility Levels in Rich Democracies
A consensus has emerged that gender-friendly policies can promote higher fertility in rich democracies (Esping-Andersen 1999). This paper supplies a political explanation for why these fertility-enabling policies diverge across countries. Using Sweden and Germany as our primary case studies, we argue that the strength of the left party's hold on government, rather than economic or social factors, underpins the expansion of the public sector that …
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Political Economy of Gender: Explaining Cross‐National Variation in the Gender Division of Labor and the Gender Voting Gap
Mainstream political economy has tended to treat the family as a unit when examining the distributional consequences of labor market institutions and of public policy. In a world with high divorce rates, we argue that this simplification is more likely to obscure than to instruct. We find that labor market opportunities for women, which vary systematically with the position of countries in the international division of labor and with the structur…
Welfare Works: Explaining Female Legislative Representation
This study aims to advance our understanding of why women are underrepresented in legislatures around the world, and what accounts for the wide variation over time and across countries. Scholars generally agree on many of the favorable conditions for women to enter parliament, including, inter alia, proportional representation, leftism in government, and female employment. However, the mechanisms that link women's seat shares to the supposed expl…
Short versus Long Coalitions: Electoral Accountability and the Size of the Public Sector
This article examines the policy consequences of the number of parties in government. We argue that parties externalize costs not borne by their support groups. Larger parties thus internalize more costs than small parties because they represent more groups. This argument implies that the public sector should be larger the more parties there are in the government coalition. We test this prediction using yearly time‐series cross‐sectional data fro…
Gender and Development: The Japanese Experience in Comparative Perspective
America's Policy toward East Asia: How It Looks from Japan
Despite the unpopularity in Japan of American military unilateralism, Japan has continued to support U.S. actions abroad in order to bolster the bilateral security alliance. Public support in Japan for an active foreign policy reflects realist thinking there about new international threats, as well as changes in domestic politics that shape the public's response to those threats
Work and Power: The Connection Between Female Labor Force Participation and Female Political Representation
Low levels of female labor force participation contribute to female underrepresentation in democratic polities, both by reinforcing traditional voter attitudes toward women (a demand-side feature) and by constraining the supply of women with professional experience and resources who are capable of mounting credible electoral campaigns. Female labor force participation, however, is only part of the story. Comparative analysis suggests that elector…
Regimes and the Rule of Law: Judicial Independence in Comparative Perspective
According to popular wisdom, judicial independence and the rule of law are essential features of modern democracy. Drawing on the growing comparative literature on courts, we unpack this claim by focusing on two broad questions: How does the type of political regime affect judicial independence? Are independent courts, in fact, always essential for establishing the rule of law? In highlighting the role of institutional fragmentation and public op…
Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height Inequality
Human osteological data provide a rich, still-to-be-mined source of information about the distribution of nutrition and, by extension, the distribution of political power and economic wealth in societies of long ago. On the basis of data we have collected and analyzed on societies ranging from foraging communities to the ancient Egyptian and modern European monarchies, we find that the shift from hunting and gathering to complex fishing technique…
Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself
Are You My Mentor? A Field Experiment on Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Self-Starters
Do public officials respond unequally to requests for career advice? Through a correspondence experiment with 8,189 officials, we examine whether (hypothetical) male and female students who express interest in political careers receive differential responses from public officials. We report three striking findings. First, emails sent by female students were more likely to receive a response than those sent by male students, especially when the of…
The Ties That Double Bind: Social Roles and Women's Underrepresentation in Politics
This paper theorizes three forms of bias that might limit women's representation: outright hostility, double standards, and a double bind whereby desired traits present bigger burdens for women than men. We examine these forms of bias using conjoint experiments derived from several original surveys-a population survey of American voters and two rounds of surveys of American public officials. We find no evidence of outright discrimination or of do…
Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan
Hawkish Partisans: How Political Parties Shape Nationalist Conflicts in China and Japan
It is well known that regime types affect international conflicts. This article explores political parties as a mechanism through which they do so. Political parties operate in fundamentally different ways in democracies vs. non-democracies, which has consequences for foreign policy. Core supporters of a party in a democracy, if they are hawkish, may be more successful at demanding hawkish behavior from their party representatives than would be t…
Voter responses to female candidates' voice pitch: Experimental evidence from Japan
Politicians' voice pitch is known to affect voters' evaluation of the candidates in the US. But to what extent is this true outside of the American context? To address this question, we conducted an original survey experiment in Japan. Our findings are threefold. First, in contrast to previous studies, voters in Japan do not systematically prefer lower-pitched over higher-pitched female politicians. Second, our findings suggest heterogeneity in t…
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