Professor Aldrich's Vita
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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 is currently an Advanced Research Fellow at Harvard University's Program on US-Japan Relations. During the 2007-2008 academic year, he will be a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo's Law Faculty in Japan. Daniel has focused on the ways in which state agencies interact with contentious civil society over the siting of controversial facilities such as nuclear power plants, airports, and dams. His research has been funded by grants from the Abe Foundation, IIE Fulbright Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Reischauer Institute at Harvard University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Harvard's Center for European Studies. He has been a visiting scholar at the Japanese Ministry of Finance, the Institute for Social Science at Tokyo University, Harvard University, and the Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He has spent more than two years conducting fieldwork in Japan and France.

Public Bads and Civic Deficits: Siting Controversial Facilities in Japan and the West , forthcoming Cornell University Press

"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," in Political Psychology (with Rieko Kage),