Ph.D. Harvard University, Political Science (2005)
M.A. Harvard University, Political Science (2001)
M.A. University of California at Berkeley, Asian Studies (1998)
B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Asian Studies and Japanese (1996)

Daniel P. Aldrich is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Purdue University who has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo’s Law Faculty in Japan, an Advanced Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Program on US-Japan Relations, a Visiting Researcher at Centre Américain, Sciences Po in Paris, France and a Visiting Professor at the Tata Institute for Disaster Management in Mumbai, India. He is a senior associate editor of the journal Asian Politics and Policy and a Mansfield CGP Fellow.

His research interests include post-disaster recovery, the siting of controversial facilities, the interaction between civil society and the state, and the socialization of women and men through experience.

Daniel’s book, Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West, was published by Cornell University Press in 2008 and is being republished (as a 2nd edition paperback) in May 2010 and translated into Japanese by Sekaishisosha Publishers. The book has been reviewed in more than 12 journals and on several blogs, including Nuclear Street, Dispirited Academic and The Journal Governance. It has been mentioned by Greenfieldoptimist and Japan Focus as well.

He has published numerous articles including “Strong Civil Society as a Double-Edged Sword:Siting Trailers in Post-Katrina New Orleans” with Kevin Crook in Political Research Quarterly , “Location, Location, Location: Selecting Sites for Controversial Facilities, ” in Singapore Economic Review, “Mars and Venus at Twilight: A Critical Investigation of Moralism, Age Affects, and Sex Differences,” with Rieko Kage in Political Psychology, “Localities that Can Say No? Autonomy and Dependence in Japanese Local Government,” in Asian Journal of Political Science, and “Siting Schemes: Central Governments, State Learning, and Local Public Bads,” in Social Science Japan. He also has an article entitled “Controversial Facility Siting: State Policy Instruments and Flexibility” in the Journal of Comparative Politics, an article entitled “The 800 Pound Gaijin in the Room” in PS: Political Science and Politics and a book chapter entitled “The Limits of Flexible and Adaptive Institutions: The Japanese Government’s Role in Nuclear Power Plant Siting over the Post War Period,” in Managing Conflict in Facility Siting edited by S. Hayden Lesbirel and Daigee Shaw.