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Research Bio

Steven Vogel is a professor of Political Science and Political Economy.  He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in the political economy of the advanced industrialized nations, especially Japan. He is the author of Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work (2018) and  Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism (2006), and the co-editor (with Naazneen Barma) of The Political Economy Reader: Contending Perspectives and Contemporary Debates (2022).

Research Expertise and Interest

comparative political economy, market governance, regulation, Japanese politics, political science

Teaching

Courses taught during the three most recent terms
2026 Spring
  • Directed Group Study  [POLECON 198]  

  • Directed Advanced Study  [POLSCI 292]  

  • Directed Dissertation Research  [POLSCI 296]  

  • Professional Preparation for Graduate Student Instructors.  [POLSCI 398]  

  • Supervised Research: Social Sciences  [UGIS 192B]  

2025 Fall
  • Contemporary Theories of Political Economy  [POLECON 101]  

  • Directed Group Study  [POLECON 198]  

  • Supervised Independent Study and Research for Undergraduates  [POLSCI 199]  

  • Comparative Political Economy  [POLSCI 209A]  

  • Directed Advanced Study  [POLSCI 292]  

  • Directed Dissertation Research  [POLSCI 296]  

  • Professional Preparation for Graduate Student Instructors.  [POLSCI 398]  

  • Research Skills  [POLSCI 404]  

  • Supervised Research: Social Sciences  [UGIS 192B]  

2025 Summer
  • Special Study in Political Science  [POLSCI 299]  

2025 Spring
  • Directed Group Study  [POLECON 198]  

  • Market Governance in the Digital Age  [POLSCI 138D]  

  • Directed Advanced Study  [POLSCI 292]  

  • Directed Dissertation Research  [POLSCI 296]  

  • Professional Preparation for Graduate Student Instructors.  [POLSCI 398]  

  • Supervised Research: Social Sciences  [UGIS 192B]