Steven Kent Vogel is an American academic, journalist, author and political economist. He specializes in industrial policy, Japan, and comparative political economy. [1] He is Director of the Political Economy Program, the Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies, and a Professor of Political Science and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. [2] His father was the late Ezra Vogel. His mother was the late Suzanne Hall Vogel.
Vogel has a B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. [1]
Vogel has worked as a reporter for the Japan Times in Tokyo and as a freelance journalist in France. [1]
In addition to his faculty experience at Berkeley, Vogel has taught at the University of California, Irvine and Harvard University. [1]
Vogel's research and writing have focused on comparative political economy and Japanese politics, industrial policy, trade and defense policy. His interests include the political economies of the advanced industrialized nations, especially Japan. [1]
Vogel's published writings encompass 18 works in 38 publications in 3 languages and 2,034 library holdings. [3]
The 1998 Masayoshi Ōhira Memorial Prize was awarded for his work in Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries.[ citation needed ]
In 1994, Vogel's dissertation, "The Politics of Regulatory Reform in the Advanced Industrial Countries," won the Lasswell prize, awarded annually by the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in the field of public policy. It is co-sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization and the APSA Public Policy Section. [4]
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