Publications

2026 Getting to Know Her: Information and Gender Bias in Preferential Voting Systems Daniel M. Smith · Electoral Studies 5 2026 Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems Daniel M. Smith · American Political Science Review 12 2025 Conclusion: The LDP Loses Trust and the Illusion of Invincibility Daniel M. Smith · Japan Decides 2024 0 2025 Introduction: LDP Dominance on the Edge Daniel M. Smith · Japan Decides 2024 0 2025 Japan Decides 2024: The Japanese General Election Daniel M. Smith · Palgrave Macmillan 1 2025 Using Cell-phone Mobility Data to Study Voter Turnout Daniel M. Smith · Political Behavior 6 2025 Winning Elections with Unpopular Policies: Valence Advantage and Single-Party Dominance in Japan. Daniel M. Smith · Quarterly Journal of Political Science 19 2024 Destruction from Above: Long-Term Legacies of the Tokyo Air Raids Daniel M. Smith · The Journal of Politics 35 2024 Dynasties in Historical Political Economy Daniel M. Smith · The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy 10 2024 Legacies of Wartime Destruction: Lessons from the Tokyo Firebombing Daniel M. Smith · Broadstreet — 2023 Conclusion: Voters Choose Competence in Japan’s Coronavirus Election Daniel M. Smith · Japan Decides 2021 2 2023 Introduction: Japan’s Coronavirus Election Daniel M. Smith · Japan Decides 2021 0 2023 Japan Decides 2021: The Japanese General Election Daniel M. Smith · Palgrave Macmillan 75 2023 Kishida’s Policy Goals and Party Politics in 2023 Daniel M. Smith · Japan Political Pulse at Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA — 2023 Who Answers for the Government? Bureaucrats, Ministers, and Responsible Parties Daniel M. Smith · American Journal of Political Science 16 2022 Abe’s Assassination and Implications for Constitutional Revision Daniel M. Smith · Japan Political Pulse at Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA — 2022 Just a Number? Voter Evaluations of Age in Candidate Choice Experiments Daniel M. Smith · The Journal of Politics 78 2022 What Shinzo Abe’s assassination means for Japanese politics Daniel M. Smith · The Monkey Cage at The Washington Post — 2022 Workshops Without Borders: Building an Online Community of Japan Scholars. Daniel M. Smith · PS: Political Science & Politics 3 2021 Distributive Politics and Crime Daniel M. Smith · Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 4 2021 Gender and Dynastic Political Selection Daniel M. Smith · Comparative Political Studies · needs review 103 2021 Heavyweights Jostle to Lead LDP into a Suga-Free Diet Election Daniel M. Smith · Japan Political Pulse at Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA — 2021 Historical Patterns in Political Dynasties Daniel M. Smith · Broadstreet — 2021 Japan: Committee-Centered Oversight in a Dominant-Party System Daniel M. Smith · The Politics of Legislative Debates 10 2021 Japan’s new prime minister is a third-generation politician. That’s more common than you might think Daniel M. Smith · The Monkey Cage at The Washington Post — 2021 Local Representation and Voter Mobilization in Closed-list Proportional Representation Systems Daniel M. Smith · Quarterly Journal of Political Science 48 2021 Moral Hazard in Electoral Teams: List Rank and Campaign Effort Daniel M. Smith · Journal of Public Economics 51 2021 Nobody can go to the Tokyo Olympics. So why is the government going ahead with them? Daniel M. Smith · The Monkey Cage at The Washington Post 3 2021 RESOLVED: The Lower House Election Is a Warning Sign for the LDP (Yes) Daniel M. Smith · Debating Japan 4(6) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies — 2021 The 2021 Election and Democratic Representation in Japan Daniel M. Smith · Japan Political Pulse at Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA — 2021 The 2021 General Election Campaign Kicks Off Daniel M. Smith · Japan Political Pulse at Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA — 2020 Identifying Voter Preferences for Politicians’ Personal Attributes: A Conjoint Experiment in Japan Daniel M. Smith · Political Science Research and Methods 164 2020 Japan Decides 2017: The Japanese General Election. Edited by Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, Ethan Scheiner, and Daniel M. Smith. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan … Daniel M. Smith · Pacific Affairs · Scholar only — 2020 Measuring the Competitiveness of Elections Daniel M. Smith · Political Analysis 86 2019 Parties, Legislators, and the Origins of Proportional Representation Daniel M. Smith · Comparative Political Studies 85 2018 Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan Daniel M. Smith · Stanford University Press 192 2018 Electoral Systems and Voter Turnout Daniel M. Smith · The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems 37 2018 Introduction: Abe on a Roll at the Polls Daniel M. Smith · Japan Decides 2017 1 2018 Japan Decides 2017: The Japanese General Election Daniel M. Smith · Palgrave Macmillan 0 2018 Measuring Voters’ Multidimensional Policy Preferences with Conjoint Analysis: Application to Japan’s 2014 Election Daniel M. Smith · Political Analysis 171 2018 Political Dynasties and the Incumbency Advantage in Party- Centered Environments Daniel M. Smith · American Political Science Review 174 2018 Reed-Smith-JHRED-CANDIDATES. dta Daniel M. Smith · Scholar only — 2018 The 2017 Election Results: An Earthquake, a Typhoon, and Another Landslide Daniel M. Smith · Japan Decides 2017 17 2017 Could Japan’s opposition have done any better in the 2017 election? Daniel M. Smith · East Asia Forum — 2017 Local Candidates and Voter Mobilization: Evidence from Historical Two-Round Elections in Norway Daniel M. Smith · Electoral Studies 66 2017 Norwegian Parliamentary Elections, 1906-2013: Representation and Turnout Across Four Electoral Systems Daniel M. Smith · West European Politics 40 2017 Political Dynasties and the Selection of Cabinet Ministers Daniel M. Smith · Legislative Studies Quarterly 106 2017 Political Dynasties in Democracies: Causes, Consequences, and Remaining Puzzles Daniel M. Smith · The Economic Journal 108 2017 Tōchi no Jōken: Minshutō ni Miru Seiken Unei to Tōnai Tōchi [Party Government and Party Governance: The Case of the Democratic Party of Japan], edited by Maeda Yukio and Tsutsumi Hidenori Daniel M. Smith · Social Science Japan Journal 1 2016 Candidate Selection Methods and Policy Cohesion in Parties: The Impact of Open Recruitment in Japan Daniel M. Smith · Party Politics 51