James W. White, Professor of Political Science, received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1964 and his M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1969) from Stanford University. His areas of special interest are comparative politics and collective behavior, with a strong emphasis on East Asia, especially Japanese politics. He is author of Sokagakkai and Mass Society (1970), Migration in Metropolitan Japan: Social Change and Political Behavior (1982), and Ikki: Social Conflict and Political Protest in Early Modern Japan (1995); coeditor of Social Change and Community Politics in Urban Japan (1976); translator of The Government and Politics of Japan (1994); and a contributor to The American Political Science Review and World Politics, inter al. He is presently engaged in a comparative study of the policy process in Tokyo and Paris.