Daniel P. Aldrich is an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow at USAID and an Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University (on leave for 2011-2012) who was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo’s Law Faculty in Japan during the 2007-2008 academic year. During 2006-2007, he was an Advanced Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Program on US-Japan Relations. Daniel P. Aldrich received his Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from Harvard University, an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Daniel has focused on the ways in which state agencies interact with contentious civil society over the siting of controversial facilities such as nuclear power plants, airports, and dams. He has published a number of peer-reviewed articles alongside research for general audiences. His research has been funded by grants from the Abe Foundation, IIE Fulbright Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Reischauer Institute at Harvard University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Harvard’s Center for European Studies. He has been a visiting scholar at the Japanese Ministry of Finance, the Institute for Social Science at Tokyo University, Harvard University, the Tata Institute for Social Science in Mumbai and the Institut d’etudes politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He has spent more than three years conducting fieldwork in Japan, India and France.
Fieldwork
The 800-Pound Gaijin in the Room: Strategies and Tactics for Conducting Fieldwork in Japan and Abroad, PS : Political Science and Politics (2009)
Most graduate school training for United States-based political scientists focuses on details ranging from properly...
Controversial Facilities
Hatoko Comes Home: Civil Society and Nuclear Power in Japan (with Martin Dusinberre), Journal of Asian Studies (2011)
This article seeks to explain how, given Japan’s “nuclear allergy” following World War II, a...
Strong Civil Society as a Double-Edged Sword: Siting Trailers in Post-Katrina New Orleans (with Kevin Crook), Political Research Quarterly (2008)
To meet the dire need for housing created by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in...
Location, Location, Location: Selecting Sites for Controversial Facilities, Singapore Economic Review (2008)
While a large literature exists on the siting of controversial facilities, few theories about spatial...
Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West (2008)
One of the most vexing problems for governments is building controversial facilities that serve the...
Civil Society - State Relations
Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West (2008)
One of the most vexing problems for governments is building controversial facilities that serve the...
Sex Differences in Judgment
Japanese Liberal Democratic Party Support and the Gender Gap: A New Approach, British Journal of Political Science (2011)
Scholars have argued that there is a broad gender gap in support for the long-ruling...
Mars and Venus at Twilight: A Critical Investigation of Moralism, Age Effects, and Sex Differences (with Rieko Kage), Political Psychology (2003)
Analysts have long sought to understand whether women and men have different ethical orientations. Some...
Disaster Recovery
Post-Crisis Japanese Nuclear Policy: From Top-down Directives to Bottom-up Activism, Asia Pacific Issues (2012)
Over the past fifty years, Japan has developed one of the most advanced commercial nuclear...
The Externalities of Strong Social Capital: Post-Tsunami Recovery in Southeast India, Journal of Civil Society (2011)
Much research has implied that social capital functions as an unqualified “public good,” enhancing governance,...
Between Market and State: Directions in Social Science Research on Disaster, Perspectives on Politics (2010)
In this extended review, I discuss three recent books on disaster: Governing after Crisis: The...
The Power of People: Social Capital’s Role in Recovery from the 1995 Kobe Earthquake, Natural Hazards (2010)
Despite the regularity of disasters, social science has only begun to generate replicable knowledge about...
Fixing Recovery: Social Capital in Post-Crisis Resilience, Journal of Homeland Security (2010)
Disasters remain among the most critical events which impact residents and their neighborhoods; they have...