Frances McCall Rosenbluth

Frances Rosenbluth is a comparative political economist with current research interests in war and constitutions, Japanese politics and political economy, and the political economy of gender. She has received research support from the Fulbright Commission, the National Science Foundation, the Council on Foreign Affairs, and the Abe Foundation. Her recent and forthcoming books include The Political Economy of Japan’s Low Fertility (edited, Stanford Press, 2007), Women, Work, and Politics (with Torben Iversen, Yale University Press, 2010), Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Reform (with Michael Thies, Princeton University Press, 2010), and War and State Building in Medieval Japan (co-edited with John Ferejohn, Stanford University Press, 2010). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.