I imagine that some of my readers may be in Boston for this year's APSA annual meeting.I'm planning on attending, and will be at a number of Asia-related panels (and possibly blog about what I hear).If you'll be at APSA, feel free to drop me a line (observingjapan@gmail.com).UPDATE: Blogging will depend on whether panels are …
Tag: political science
Voters are a foreign country
At The Monkey Cage, a group blog authored by four political science professors at George Washington University, John Sides dissects surveys that attempt to illustrate just how much (or little) Americans know about politics.He points to a study that shows that respondents who were given more time to respond and/or a financial reward for correct …
Carl Schmitt on the US-Japan alliance
Well, not exactly, but I found this passage in "The Concept of The Political" interesting in light of Japan's schizophrenic relationship with the US....It would be a mistake to believe that a nation could eliminate the distinction of friend and enemy by declaring its friendship for the entire world or by voluntarily disarming itself. The …
Constructing modern Japan
Every social scientist must struggle with the question of human agency. Are human societies the product of grand social forces or are they the product of the decisions of individuals — Carlyle's heroes?The question is particularly important for Japan, which was pushed on to a drastically different path in the late nineteenth century when confronted …
Tobias S. Harris 