Biography:
Dr Nao Kodate joined PSSQ as a Research Associate for the Risk Programme in April 2008. He holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the London School of Economics (LSE). His doctoral thesis investigates the mechanisms of policy change in the hospital sector in three countries (England, Sweden and Japan).
Before joining the Department he was a researcher at the Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo (European Politics), and has taught Comparative Public Administration and other subjects at LSE and the University of Potsdam. His research interests include comparative public policy (health reforms in advanced industrial economies); risk and regulation in the hospital sector, politics of the welfare state; impact of party politics on social policy in Europe and Japan.
Publications:
Kodate, N. 2005. Review Article on Greer, S. “Territorial Politics and Health Policy” West European Politics (Vol. 28, No. 5).
Kodate, N. 2006. 'Transformation of the British healthcare state and multi-level governance' (Japanese), Miyamoto, T. (ed.) Comparative welfare politics: Actors and strategies in the era of institutional changes, Tokyo: Waseda University Press.
Kodate, N. 2007 'Product innovation or customer satisfaction?: Hospital performance measurements and common challenges', Risk & Regulation Magazine (no.14, Winter).
Kodate, N. ‘Patient satisfaction or medical innovation? Politics of quality assurance system-building in the hospital sector in England, Japan and Sweden, 1995-2005’, ECPR Joint Sessions, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Rennes, April 2008. Conference paper.
Kodate, N. ‘Malpractice incidents and disrupted institutions in England and Japan: A new dawn of risk management in the hospital sector?’, ECPR Graduate Conference, Universitat Autonòma Barcelona, August 2008. Conference paper.
Dodds, A. & Kodate, N. ‘Accountability, organizational learning, and risks to patient safety in England: conflict or compromise?’, the Public Administration Committee Conference 2008, University of York, September 2008. Conference paper.
Kodate, N. & Kodate, K. ‘Different welfare regimes, same policy goals? Comparing government policy towards women in science and public perceptions vis-à-vis women’s universities in Britain and Japan’, the Politics of Knowing Conference: Research, institutions and gender in the making (EU-FP6 funded project), Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences in Czech Republic, November 2008. Conference paper.
Kodate, N. ‘Global security and/or safeguarding the national interest? Epidemics and discourses surrounding the United States in the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan’, “Managing the MedUSA” Conference (Comparing Approaches to Global Governance Issues in U.S.-Japan, U.S.-U.K. and U.S.-German relations), Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin, December 2008. Conference paper.