Associate Professor

Department of Political Science and Nicholas School of the Environment

Duke University
Box 90204
504 Perkins Library
Durham, NC 27706

TEL: (919) 660-4340
FAX: (919) 660-4330
E-MAIL: mamckean@acpub.duke.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese (with advance preparation)

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  government bureaucracy; government-business relations; modernization
• GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
  business and environment; energy/natural resources development; environment and development
• HISTORY
  economic controls in World War II
• LAW
  common property; environmental law
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  energy policy; environmental policy; industrial policy; political culture; political economy; political protest
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  collective behavior; comparative and cross-cultural studies; cultural stereotypes; social movements and collective behavior; US perceptions of Japan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor, Duke University, 1974-81.

IN JAPAN: 1980 - research; 1972 - dissertation research; 1965-66 - study; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"State Strength and the Public Interest," Japan's Negotiated Policy: Pursuing Public and Private Interests Under Conservative Hegemony (ed. Allinson et al.) (Cornell University Press, 1993); Making the Commons Work: Theoretical, Historical, and Contemporary Studies (ed. Bromley et al.) (Institute of Contemporary Studies, 1992); "Success on the Commons: A Comparative Examination of Institutions for Common Property Resource Management," Journal of Theoretical Politics (July, 1992); Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan (University of California Press, 1981).