Curriculum vitae

Curriculum Vitae

November 30, 2004

MISA NISHIKAWA

Department of Political Science

Ball State University

Muncie, IN 47306

Ph: (765) 285-8150

Fax: (765) 285-5345

E-mail: mnishikawa@bsu.edu

Education

July 2002 Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Michigan State University

August 1996 Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of

Michigan

May 1995 M.A., Survey Research, University of Connecticut

July 1993 B.A., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

Academic Position

August 2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Ball State University

August 2002 Instructor, Department of Political Science, Ball State University

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. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press (St. Martin’s Press)

"Mixed Electoral Rules' Impact on Party Systems" (With Erik Herron). Electoral Studies 23 753-768.

"Contamination Effects and the Number of Parties in Mixed Superposition Electoral Systems" (With Erik Herron). Electoral Studies. 20: 63-86, 2001.

"Political Interest or Interest in Politics? Gender and Party Support in Postwar Japan. " (With Dennis Patterson). Women and Politics. 24: 1-34, 2002.

"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 Erik Herron). February 2000.

Supplemental Dean's Award. September 2001.

Dissertation Completion Grant, Michigan State University. Summer 2000.

Graduate Office Fellowship, Michigan State University. Fall 1997 through present.

Graduate Assistantship, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut. Fall 1993 through Spring 1996.

Work in Progress

"Party System Institutionalization and Democracy in Asia and Africa, " (With Gina Lambright and Michelle Kuenzi)

Conference Papers

"Party System Institutionalization and Democracy in Asia and Africa, " presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August 29-September 1, 2002. (With Gina Lambright and Michelle Kuenzi)

"Saninsen ni Okeru Senryakuteki Tohyo no Bunseki, " presented at the annual meeting of the Japan Election Studies Association, Tokyo, Japan, May 18-19, 2002.

"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, Chicago, Illinois, April 19-22, 2000. (With Erik Herron)

"Japanese Without Faith: Events and Beliefs in the Efficacy Politics" presented at the “Losing Faith in Politics,” Conference, Quebec City, Canada, August, 5-7, 2000. (With Dennis Patterson)

"Political Interest or Interest in Politics? Gender and Party Support in Postwar Japan," presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 27-30, 2000. (With Dennis Patterson)

"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, Chicago, Illinois, April 15-17, 1999. (With Erik Herron)

"Assessing Duverger’s Law Under the Double-Ballot System: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and Russia, " presented at the Michigan Conference of Political Scientists, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 1998. (With Erik Herron)

"Applying Multinomial Logit Models for Studying Party Support in Japan, " presented at the regional conference of World Association for Public Opinion Research, Tokyo Japan, November 1996.

"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, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1996.

"Political Interests and Party Support: A Reassessment of the Gender Gap in Japan," presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, March 24-27, 1994.

Teaching/Research Experience

Political Science 626 (Political Theory and Research Design II) at Ball State University. Spring 2003. Graduate

Political Science 625 (Political Theory and Research Design I) at Ball State University. Fall 2002, Fall 2003. Graduate.

Political Science 210 (Introduction to Methods of Political Research) at Ball State University. Fall 2002. Undergraduate.

Political Science 280 (Comparative Political Systems) at Ball State University. Fall 2002. Undergraduate.

Political Science 140 (Introduction to Comparative Politics) at Michigan State University. Spring 2002. Undergraduate.

Guest lecturer for Political Science 160 (Introduction to International Relations) at Michigan State University. Fall 2001. Undergraduate.

Research assistant for the project, "Implementation of 30-Year Land Use Rights for Farmers Under China’s 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 Michigan State University (Responsibilities include grading, class lectures and discussions for a section with thirty students). Fall 2001. Undergraduate.

Teaching assistant for Political Science 201 (Introduction to Methods of Political Research) at Michigan State University (Responsibilities include grading, class lectures and discussions for a section with thirty students). Fall 1999 through Spring 2001. Undergraduate.

Teaching assistant for Political Science 333 (Public Opinion) at Michigan State University (Responsibilities include giving lectures to a class with seventy-five students.). Spring 1999. Undergraduate.

Research Assistant for Professor Dennis Patterson, Department of Political Science, Michigan State University. Fall 1996 through Spring 1999.

Research Assistant, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Fall 1993 through Spring

1996

Research Assistant for Professor Frances Rosenbluth, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles. Fall 1992, Spring 1993

Languages

Japanese (native speaker)

Professional Associations

American Political Science Association

Midwest Political Science Association

Southwestern Political Science Association

Japan Electoral Studies Association

References

Dennis Patterson, Chair Mark P. Jones

Department of Political Science Department of Political Science
Texas Tech University Rice University

113 Holden Hall 206 Baker Hall
Lubbock, Texas 79409-1015 Huston, Texas 77251

depatter@ttacs.ttu.edu mpjones@rice.edu

Scott Gates Brian Silver

Department of Political Science Department of Political Science

Michigan State University Michigan State University

303 S. Kedzie Hall 303 S. Kedzie Hall

East Lansing, MI 48824 East Lansing, MI 48824

gatess@msu.edu bsilver@msu.edu

Kenneth Williams