#  Daniel Smith (Harvard), Open Recruitment in Japan's Political Parties 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 19, 2013** 

 12:30PM - 02:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 2nd Floor, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA**  



 

 



 

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**[Daniel Smith](http://www.gov.harvard.edu/about-department/faculty-staff-directory/daniel-smith)**  
Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University  
  
**[Poster](http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/files/us-japan/files/13_11_19.smith_.pdf)**Moderator: **[Susan Pharr](http://www.gov.harvard.edu/people/faculty/susan-pharr)**   
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics

(Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies)

Professor Smith’s research focuses primarily on political parties, candidate selection, elections and electoral systems, and coalition government, particularly in Japan. His articles have appeared in *Annual Review of Political Science* and in *Japan Decides 2012: The Japanese General Election* (Robert Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, and Ethan Scheiner eds., Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) and *Japan Under the DPJ: The Politics of Transition and Governance* (The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford, 2013). He has conducted research in Japan as a Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) research scholar at Chuo University, and as a Fulbright research fellow at the University of Tokyo. Prior to joining the Department of Government, Professor Smith was a postdoctoral fellow at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University.



 

 



 

 

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