Steven K. Vogel

Steven K. Vogel is the Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies and a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in the political economy of the advanced industrialized nations, especially Japan. He is the author of Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism and Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries. He has worked as a reporter for the Japan Times and as a freelance journalist in France. He has taught previously at the University of California, Irvine and Harvard University. He has a BA from Princeton University and a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.