Curriculum Vitae
MISA NISHIKAWA
Department of
Political Science
Ph: (765) 285-8150
Fax: (765) 285-5345
E-mail: mnishikawa@bsu.edu
Education
July 2002 Ph.D., Department of Political Science,
August 1996
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of
May 1995 M.A., Survey
Research,
July 1993 B.A.,
Political Science,
Academic Position
August 2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Political
Science, Ball State University
August 2002 Instructor, Department of Political Science,
Main Research and Teaching Interests
Comparative
Politics (Ph.D. examination field) :
Japanese Politics, Democratic Transitions, Political Institutions
American
Politics (Ph.D. examination field) :
Congress, Public Opinion
and Voting Behavior
Methods:
Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Simultaneous Equation Models, Time
Series Analysis, Event History Analysis
Publications (Refereed Articles and Books)
"Duration of Party Control in Parliamentary and Presidential
Governments: A study of Sixty-Five Democracies, 1950-1998" (With Ko
Maeda). Forthcoming. Comparative
Political Studies
Mixed Electoral Systems: Contamination and Its
Consequences. (With Federico Ferrara and Erik Herron) 2005.
"Mixed
Electoral Rules' Impact on Party Systems" (With
"Contamination Effects and the Number
of Parties in Mixed Superposition Electoral Systems" (With
"Political Interest or Interest in
Politics? Gender and Party
Support in Postwar
"Mixed Electoral Systems with Open
List Proportional Representation and Their Impact on Party Systems- The 2001
Japanese Upper House Election. "
Japanese Journal of Electoral Studies. 18:12-25, 2003.
Scholarships and Awards
New Faculty
Research Grant, Ball State University, 2004-2005
The Westview Press Award for the best paper delivered by a
graduate student in the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association 1999 (With
Supplemental Dean's
Award. September 2001.
Dissertation Completion Grant,
Graduate Office Fellowship,
Graduate Assistantship, Department of Political Science,
Work in Progress
"Party
System Institutionalization and Democracy in Asia and
Conference Papers
"Party
System Institutionalization and Democracy in Asia and Africa, " presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association,
"Saninsen ni
Okeru Senryakuteki Tohyo no Bunseki, " presented
at the annual meeting of the Japan Election Studies Association,
"A
Cross-National Evaluation of Mixed Electoral Systems and Their Effect on the
Number of Political Parties, " presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association,
"Japanese Without Faith: Events and Beliefs in the Efficacy
Politics" presented at the gLosing Faith in Politics,h
Conference,
"Political Interest or Interest in
Politics? Gender and Party Support in Postwar
Japan," presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association,
"The Impacts
of New and Old Issues on Electoral Politics in Japan: Issue Effects on Party
Support and Voting Behavior, " presented at the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, September 2-5, 1999.
"Reassessing
Duverger's Law: The Mixed System and Its Impact on
Political Parties, " presented at the Midwest Political Science
Association Conference,
"Assessing Duvergerfs Law Under the Double-Ballot System: A
Comparative Analysis of Japan and
"Applying
Multinomial Logit Models for Studying Party Support
in
"The Decline
in the Japanese Party System: Explaining the Increase in the Number of the
Unaffiliated Voters, " presented at the annual meeting of the Association
for Asian Studies,
"Political
Interests and Party Support: A Reassessment of the Gender Gap in
Teaching/Research Experience
Political Science 626 (Political Theory
and Research Design II) at
Political Science 625 (Political Theory and Research Design I) at
Political Science 210 (Introduction to
Methods of Political Research) at
Political Science 280 (Comparative
Political Systems) at
Political Science 140 (Introduction to
Comparative Politics) at
Guest lecturer for Political Science 160 (Introduction to
International Relations) at
Research
assistant for the project, "Implementation of 30-Year Land Use Rights for
Farmers Under Chinafs 1998
Land Management Law: An Analysis and Recommendations Based on a 17 Province
Survey." Fall
2001. Undergraduate.
Teaching assistant for Political Science 200 (Introduction to Political
Science) at
Teaching assistant
for Political Science 201 (Introduction to Methods of Political Research) at
Teaching
assistant for Political Science 333 (Public Opinion) at
Research Assistant for Professor Dennis Patterson, Department of
Political Science,
Research Assistant, the
1996
Research Assistant for Professor Frances Rosenbluth,
Department of Political Science,
Languages
Japanese (native speaker)
Professional Associations
American Political Science Association
Southwestern Political Science Association
References
Dennis Patterson,
Chair
Department of Political Science Department of Political
113 Holden Hall 206
Baker Hall
depatter@ttacs.ttu.edu mpjones@rice.edu
Scott Gates Brian Silver
Department of
Political Science Department of
Political Science
303 S. Kedzie
Hall 303
S. Kedzie Hall
gatess@msu.edu bsilver@msu.edu
Kenneth Williams
Department of Political Science
303 S. Kedzie
Hall
Willia59@msu.edu