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