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PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania (2023-present)

Gerald L. Curtis Visiting Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Department of Political Science and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (2021-2023)

Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University (2017-2021)

Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University (2013-2017)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University (2012-2013)

EDUCATION

PhD, Political Science, University of California, San Diego (2012)

MA, Political Science, University of California, San Diego (2009)

BA, Political Science, Italian and Special Fields, University of California, Los Angeles (2005)

BOOKS

Pekkanen, Robert J., Steven R. Reed and Daniel M. Smith (eds.). 2023. Japan Decides 2021: The Japanese General Election. Palgrave Macmillan.

Smith, Daniel M. 2018. Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan. Stanford University Press.

Pekkanen, Robert J., Steven R. Reed, Ethan Scheiner and Daniel M. Smith (eds.). 2018. Japan Decides 2017: The Japanese General Election. Palgrave Macmillan.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Harada, Masataka, Gaku Ito, and Daniel M. Smith. 2024. Destruction from Above: Long-Term Legacies of the Tokyo Air Raids. The Journal of Politics, 86(2):782-797. [Replication materials] [Pre-print version]

Goplerud, Max, and Daniel M. Smith. 2023. "Who Answers for the Government? Bureaucrats, Ministers, and Responsible Parties." American Journal of Political Science, 67(4): 963-978. [Replication materials] [Pre-print version]

Eshima, Shusei, and Daniel M. Smith. 2022. "Just a Number? Voter Evaluations of Age in Candidate Choice Experiments." The Journal of Politics, 84(3): 1856-1861.  [Replication materials] [Pre-print version] *Winner of the 2023 Lawrence Longley Award from the Representation and Electoral Systems Section of APSA for the best article published in 2022.

Catalinac, Amy, Charles Crabtree, Christina L. Davis, Shinju Fujihira, Yusaku Horiuchi, Phillip Y. Lipscy, Frances McCall Rosenbluth, and Daniel M. Smith. 2022. “Workshops Without Borders: Building an Online Community of Japan Scholars.” PS: Political Science & Politics, 55(3): 555-557.

Cox, Gary W., Jon H. Fiva, Daniel M. Smith, and Rune J. Sørensen. 2021. "Moral Hazard in Electoral Teams: List Rank and Campaign Effort." Journal of Public Economics, 200: 104457. [Replication materials] [Pre-print version]

Harada, Masataka, and Daniel M. Smith. 2021. "Distributive Politics and Crime." Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 2(4): 453-482. [Replication materials] [Pre-print version] *Winner of the 2022 Kenneth A. Shepsle Prize for best article in the journal published in 2021.

Fiva, Jon H., Askill H. Halse, and Daniel M. Smith. 2021. "Local Representation and Voter Mobilization in Closed-list Proportional Representation Systems." Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 16(2): 185-213. [Replication materials] [Pre-print version]

Folke, Olle, Johanna Rickne, and Daniel M. Smith. 2021. "Gender and Dynastic Political Selection." Comparative Political Studies, 54(2): 339-371. [Replication materials] [Pre-print version]

Cox, Gary W., Jon H. Fiva, and Daniel M. Smith. 2020. "Measuring the Competitiveness of Elections." Political Analysis, 28(2): 168-185. [Replication materials] [Pre-print version]

Horiuchi, Yusaku, Daniel M. Smith, and Teppei Yamamoto. 2020. "Identifying Voter Preferences for Politicians' Personal Attributes: A Conjoint Experiment in Japan." Political Science Research and Methods, 8(1): 75-91. [Replication materials] [Pre-print version]

Cox, Gary W., Jon H. Fiva, and Daniel M. Smith. 2019. "Parties, Legislators, and the Origins of Proportional Representation." Comparative Political Studies, 52(1): 102-133. [Replication materials]

Fiva, Jon H., and Daniel M. Smith. 2018. "Political Dynasties and the Incumbency Advantage in Party-Centered Environments." American Political Science Review, 112(3): 706-712. [Replication materials]

Horiuchi, Yusaku, Daniel M. Smith, and Teppei Yamamoto. 2018. "Measuring Voters' Multidimensional Policy Preferences with Conjoint Analysis: Application to Japan's 2014 Election." Political Analysis, 26(2): 190-209. [Replication materials]

Geys, Benny, and Daniel M. Smith. 2017. "Political Dynasties in Democracies: Causes, Consequences, and Remaining Puzzles." The Economic Journal, 127(605): F446-F454.

Fiva, Jon H., and Daniel M. Smith. 2017. "Norwegian Parliamentary Elections, 1906-2013: Representation and Turnout Across Four Electoral Systems." West European Politics, 40(6): 1373-1391. [Replication materials]

Smith, Daniel M., and Shane Martin. 2017. "Political Dynasties and the Selection of Cabinet Ministers." Legislative Studies Quarterly, 42(1): 131-165. [Replication materials]

Fiva, Jon H., and Daniel M. Smith. 2017. "Local Candidates and Voter Mobilization: Evidence from Historical Two-Round Elections in Norway." Electoral Studies, 45: 130-140. [Replication materials]

Cox, Gary W., Jon H. Fiva, and Daniel M. Smith. 2016. "The Contraction Effect: How Proportional Representation Affects Mobilization and Turnout." The Journal of Politics, 78(4): 1249-1263. [Replication materials]

Smith, Daniel M., and Hidenori Tsutsumi. 2016. "Candidate Selection Methods and Policy Cohesion in Parties: The Impact of Open Recruitment in Japan." Party Politics, 22(3): 339-353.

Harada, Masataka, and Daniel M. Smith. 2014. "You Have to Pay to Play: Candidate and Party Responses to the High Cost of Elections in Japan." Electoral Studies, 36: 51-64.

Strøm, Kaare, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Daniel Markham Smith. 2010. "Parliamentary Control of Coalition Governments." Annual Review of Political Science, 13: 517-535.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

van Coppenolle, Brenda, and Daniel M. Smith. 2024. “Dynasties in Historical Political Economy.” In Jeffery A. Jenkins and Jared Rubin (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy, pp. 185-208. Oxford University Press. [Pre-print version]

Smith, Daniel M., Robert J. Pekkanen, and Steven R. Reed. 2023. “Conclusion: Voters Choose Competence in Japan’s Coronavirus Election.” In Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, and Daniel M. Smith (eds.), Japan Decides 2021: The Japanese General Election, pp. 387-396. Palgrave Macmillan.

Pekkanen, Robert J., Steven R. Reed, and Daniel M. Smith. 2023. “Introduction: Japan’s Coronavirus Election.” In Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, and Daniel M. Smith (eds.), Japan Decides 2021: The Japanese General Election, pp. 1-11. Palgrave Macmillan.

Smith, Daniel M. 2021. "Japan: Committee-Centered Oversight in a Dominant-Party System." In Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus, and Jorge M. Fernandes (eds.), The Politics of Legislative Debates, pp. 528-552. Oxford University Press.

Scheiner, Ethan, Daniel M. Smith, and Michael F. Thies. 2018. "The 2017 Election Results: An Earthquake, a Typhoon, and Another Landslide." In Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, Ethan Scheiner and Daniel M. Smith (eds.), Japan Decides 2017: The Japanese General Election, pp. 29-50. Palgrave Macmillan.

Pekkanen, Robert J., Steven R. Reed, Ethan Scheiner, and Daniel M. Smith. 2018. "Introduction: Abe on a Roll at the Polls." In Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, Ethan Scheiner and Daniel M. Smith (eds.), Japan Decides 2017: The Japanese General Election, pp. 3-14. Palgrave Macmillan.

Smith, Daniel M. 2018. "Electoral Systems and Voter Turnout." In Erik S. Herron, Robert J. Pekkanen, and Matthew S. Shugart (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems, pp. 193-212. Oxford University Press.

Smith, Daniel M. 2016. "Candidates in the 2014 Election: Better Coordination and Higher Candidate Quality." In Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, and Ethan Scheiner (eds.), Japan Decides 2014: The Japanese General Election, pp. 118-133. Palgrave Macmillan.

Scheiner, Ethan, Daniel M. Smith, and Michael F. Thies. 2016. "The 2014 Japanese Election Results: The Opposition Cooperates, but Fails to Inspire." In Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, and Ethan Scheiner (eds.), Japan Decides 2014: The Japanese General Election, pp. 22-38. Palgrave Macmillan.

Pekkanen, Robert J., Steven R. Reed, and Daniel M. Smith. 2016. "Japanese Politics Between the 2012 and 2014 Elections." In Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, and Ethan Scheiner (eds.), Japan Decides 2014: The Japanese General Election, pp. 9-21. Palgrave Macmillan.

Smith, Daniel M. 2014. "Party Ideals and Practical Constraints in Kōmeitō Candidate Nominations." In George Ehrhardt, Axel Klein, Levi McLaughlin, and Steven R. Reed (eds.), Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan, pp. 139-162. The Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Smith, Daniel M., Robert J. Pekkanen, and Ellis S. Krauss. 2013. "Building a Party: Candidate Recruitment in the Democratic Party of Japan, 1996-2012." In Kenji E. Kushida and Phillip Y. Lipscy (eds.), Japan under the DPJ: The Politics of Transition and Governance, pp. 157-190. The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University.

Smith, Daniel M. 2013. "Candidate Recruitment for the 2012 Election: New Parties, New Methods…Same Old Pool of Candidates?" In Robert Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, and Ethan Scheiner (eds.), Japan Decides 2012: The Japanese General Election, pp. 101-122. Palgrave Macmillan.

Reed, Steven R., Ethan Scheiner, Daniel M. Smith, and Michael Thies. 2013. "The 2012 Election Results: The LDP Wins Big by Default." In Robert Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, and Ethan Scheiner (eds.), Japan Decides 2012: The Japanese General Election, pp. 34-46. Palgrave Macmillan.