Leonard J. Schoppa is Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Education Reform in Japan: A Case of Immobilist Politics and Bargaining with Japan: What American Pressure Can and Cannot Do.
"For those interested in Japan's current social agenda, Leonard Schoppa's book offers a masterful view. Schoppa sets the record straight on recent social trends and government policies, and he provides a sophisticated analysis of how the two interact."-Steven K. Vogel, Journal of Japanese Studies "This creative and important book addresses the most profound conundrum posed by Japanese politics in the past few decades: Given economic collapse and the failure of reform, why aren't the Japanese up in arms? The writing is lively, the research thorough, the argumentation consistently helpful. Leonard J. Schoppa's take on the relationship between exit and voice will interest comparativists and political economists, and his special attention to the plight of women in the Japanese labor market will attract readers in gender studies. Race for the Exits also has much to say to those interested in how public policy can address market failures."-Frances Rosenbluth, Yale University "Leonard J. Schoppa deftly analyzes Japan's economic and policy malaise of the early twenty-first century by probing how individuals and firms have pursued private solutions to problems that might better be solved by institutional reforms. This is a deeply perceptive, well-informed account of what has gone wrong in the past decade and why women in particular are opting out of a system that no longer works for them."-Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University "Leonard J. Schoppa offers a close analysis of reforms to liberalize the Japanese market and policies aimed at supporting working mothers so they can raise children and continue in lifelong careers. His combination of the two topics-using the notion that Japan has long had a set of policies that supported economic growth and social protection but that those policies are breaking down-is quite impressive."-Patricia A. Boling, Purdue University
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