Professor of Political Science

University of Michigan

202 South Thayer Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608

TEL: (734) 998-7558
FAX: (734) 998-7689
E-MAIL: jccamp@umich.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese (with advance preparation)

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  foreign policy and international relations; health care policy; public policy
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  aging and life cycle; cultural and social change; organizational decision-making; organizations and institutions; social problems and welfare

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Co-Director, Japan Technology Management Program, 1991-present; Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, 1973-present; Staff Associate, Social Science Research Council, 1970-73.

IN JAPAN: 1975-76, 1990-91 - research; 1970-71 - dissertation research; 1965-66 - study; 1959-61 - military.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Explaining Japan's Low-Cost Health Care: Culture, System, Politics (forthcoming); How Policies Change: The Japanese Government and the Aging Society (Princeton University Press, 1992); Contemporary Japanese Budget Politics (University of California Press, 1977); "Policy Conflict and its Resolution in the Governmental System" Conflict in Japan (ed. Rohlen et al.) (University of Hawaii Press, 1984).