Benjamin Nyblade
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Assistant Professor
Faculty Associate, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions
Faculty Associate, Centre for Japanese Research
Scholar, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Institutions, Organizations and Growth Program
Office: Buchanan C322
Office phone: (604) 822-4559
Email: bnyblade(at)politics.ubc.ca
Website: http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/bnyblade/
Benjamin Nyblade (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego) joined the department as an Assistant Professor in July 2006 after spending two years in the department as a Killam Research Fellow. His primary research topics are in comparative democratic institutions, political parties and elections around the world (with a particular emphasis on Japan and Western Europe). Current research projects investigate the effect of electoral system reform in Japan, the dynamics of coalition government formation and duration in Western Europe, and theories of party competition. Other interests include Japanese foreign policy, empirical political theory and research methodology.
Teaching
2009-10 Teaching - Term 1
POLI 571A: Qualitative Research Methods (Syllabus)
2009-10 Teaching - Term 2
POLI 381: Topics in Quantitative Analysis: Measuring Democracy (Syllabus)
POLI 491: Honours Thesis (Syllabus)
Other Courses Taught in Recent Years
- POLI 322: Japanese Politics and Government
- POLI 380: Quantitative Methods in Political Science
- POLI 464: Japanese Foreign Policy
- POLI 553: Empirical Political Theory
Graduate Supervision
Dr. Nyblade welcomes working with those students interested in political institutions, parties and elections around the world.
Current Ph.D. Supervision
Nathan Allen, "Candidate Selection, the Personal Vote and Ethnic Politics in Indonesia"
Current Ph.D. Committees
Hilary Pearse, "Majoritarian Parties in Multi-Party Parliaments"
Anastasiya Salnykova, "Electoral Politics and Ethnic Identity Polarization in Ukraine"
Netina Tan, "Hegemonic Party Rule in Singapore and Taiwan"
Recent Supervision
Royce Koop, "The Federal Organization of Canada's Liberal Party" 2008 Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Nathan Allen, "Institutional Reform and Party Systems", 2006 M.A. (Supervisor)
Recent Publications
Articles
“Who Cheats? Who Loots? Political Competition and Corruption in Japan, 1947-1993” American Journal of Political Science 52(4), October, 2008. (With Steven R. Reed).
“Electoral Incentives in Mixed Member Systems: Party, Posts and Zombie Politicians in Japan.” American Political Science Review 100(2), May 2006. (With Robert Pekkanen and Ellis S. Krauss).
“ ‘Presidentialization’ in Japan? The Prime Minister, Media and Elections in Japan.” British Journal of Political Science 35(2), April 2005. (With Ellis S. Krauss)
“Japan: The Prime Minister and the Japanese Diet” Journal of Legislative Studies 10(2/3), Summer/Autumn 2004. (With Mikitaka Masuyama)
Book Chapters
“The Empirical Study of Cabinet Governance.” In Strøm, Müller and Bergman, eds., Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. (With Torbjörn Bergman, Elisabeth R. Gerber and Scott Kastner)
“Government Formation and Cabinet Type in Parliamentary Democracies.” In Strøm, Müller and Bergman, eds., Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. (With Paul Mitchell)
“Conclusion: Cabinet Governance in Parliamentary Democracies.” In Strøm, Müller and Bergman, eds., Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. (With Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller and Torbjörn Bergman)
“Coalition Theory and Government Formation.” In Boix and Stokes, eds., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. (With Kaare Strøm)
