research

I have written on Japanese policy responses to the declining birthrate as part of my doctoral dissertation, "Building Parents of the Next Generation." Japan has attempted to stem a declining fertility rate by combining policies to promote work-life balance for young families with initiatives to prepare young people for parenthood. Their family values initiatives attempt to provide children and youth with the material and psychological wherewithal necessary for marriage and parenthood.  My theoretical approach, grounded in the new institutionalism, explains the divergence of Japanese family policy from international norms using historical and discursive analysis.  I find that Japanese family policymakers are selecting policy options from domestic debates about family and social breakdown seen as endemic to advanced industrial countries, with political actors casting family values initiatives as “normal” state responses to seemingly inevitable processes of national development.  

Published research:

• Liv Coleman, "Japan's Womenomics Diplomacy," in Gill Steel, ed., Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan (2019)
• Liv Coleman,  "Japan's Womenomics Diplomacy: Fighting Stigma and Constructing ODA Leadership on Gender Equality," Japanese Journal of Political Science (2017)
• Liv Coleman, "Will Japan 'Lean In' to Gender Equality?" US-Japan Women's Journal (2016)

Working Paper:

• Liv Coleman, "Putting Parents in Charge: Right-Wing Populist Education Movements in Japan and the United States" (2022)

My research on Internet governance pertains to topics such as managing the growth of the Internet, particularly through development and deployment of Internet protocol version 6 (especially in the Asia-Pacific), diffusion of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), and the social construction of authority for the technical community in global Internet governance.  This builds on earlier research I have done on international policing and global governance.

Published research:

• Liv Coleman, "Next Generation Internet Policy in Japan, China, and India," Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies (2014)  (Op-ed version in the Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy's online Policy Forum, first published in their magazine Advance)
• Liv Coleman, "`We Reject: Kings, Presidents, and Voting: Internet Community Autonomy in Managing the Growth of the Internet," Journal of Information Technology & Politics (2013)
• Michael Barnett and Liv Coleman,  "Designing Police: Interpol and the Study of Change in International Organizations," International Studies Quarterly (2005) 

My research on Florida politics began with my political campaign for the Florida State House in 2018 as a Democratic candidate.  I have written several working papers about right-wing political campaigns in state politics that I have presented for the Southern and Florida Political Science Associations.  I am also starting a new project about the political economy and environmental impact of the phosphate industry in Florida state and international politics.

Published (non-peer-reviewed)

• “A Feminist Runs in Trump Country in the Year of the Woman.” Florida Political Science Association Newsletter, 5, 1 (February 2019), 4-9.

Working Papers

• "Putting Parents in Charge: Right-wing Populist Education Movements in Japan and the United States."
• “Southern Strategy in the Sunshine State: Race-Based Political Appeals in the Rick Scott and Donald Trump Campaigns.” With Alayna Alaras.
• “Think Global, Hack Local: County-Managed Elections and the Fate of American Democracy.”