Jun Saito

Jun Saito, Ph. D., Yale, 2006, is Assistant Professor of Political Science. He previously taught at Wesleyan University and at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on the institutional determinants of representation and redistribution, in particular how choices of constitutional structures and electoral institutions translate into redistributive consequences. At Yale, he teaches courses on Japanese politics, international relations in East Asia, and comparative political institutions. His coauthored article with Yusaku Horiuchi won the 2004 Alan Rosenthal Award from the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association. He was once a member of the Japanese House of Representatives (2002-2003).

Campus address: 115 Prospect St., Rosenkranz Hall, Room 307
Phone: 432- 1841
Email: jun.saito@yale.edu