Ethan Scheiner is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science at Duke University in 2001. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Keio University (Mita) in Tokyo, Japan, an Advanced Research (postdoctoral) Fellow in the Program on US- Japan Relations at Harvard University (2001 2), and a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Institute for International Studies (2002 4). His work examines parties and elections within both Japan-specific and explicitly comparative contexts. He has published articles on pol...