Fellows

Junko Kato (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tokyo. She has conducted research in comparative politics on taxation and the welfare state, party coalitions and government formation, and neuro-cognitive analyses of political behavior. She has authored articles in numerous journals, including the American Political Science Review and the British Journal of Political Science.  She has authored two books: The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality (Princeton University Press, 1994) and Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State (Cambridge University Press, 2003) in addition to numerous book chapters. She has been a member of the Editorial Board of

Mark Tilton (Ph.D., UC Berkeley), Associate Professor of Political Science, Purdue University; Researcher, Purdue Climate Change Research Center. Among his publications are Restrained Trade: Cartels in Japan’s Basic Materials Industries, “Seeds of an Asian E.U.?  Regionalism as a Hedge against the U.S. on Telecommunications Technology in Japan and Germany” and “German-Japanese Climate Change Relations.”  He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Hamburg University, the Berlin Social Science Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, George Washington University, and Northwestern University.  He is currently working on renewable energy policy in Japan, France, Germany and the United States.