DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Michael Thies brings a specialist's theoretical knowledge of legislative institutions, electoral systems, and party competition to the study of Japanese politics. He is the author of articles on electoral politics and policy-making in Japan, appearing in such journals as the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Comparative Political Studies. His recent work studies the logic of delegation in coalition formation and the electoral foundations of legislative organization. He offers a popular graduate course on political institutions, delegation, and policy-making, and an introductory undergraduate course in comparative politics.