Margarita Estévez-Abe

• 2025 Fall
  • PSC 123 Comparative Government and Politics
  • MAX 132 Global Community
• 2025 Spring
  • MAX 132 Global Community
  • PSC 337 Politics and Economy of Japan
• 2024 Fall
  • PSC 123 Comparative Government and Politics
  • MAX 132 Global Community
• 2024 Spring
  • MAX 132 Global Community

"Collaboration with the Collegio Carlo Alberto", Sponsored by Collegio Carlo Alberto.

• Book
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Welfare Capitalism in Postwar Japan." Politics Series, 2008.
• Journal Articles
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "COVID-19 hits care homes: A cross-national study of mortality rates." In This is part of a series of COVID-related work I have done.. Journal of European Social Policy, 2024.
  • Estevez-Abe, M. (Primary Investigator), Lim, T., "Do Men Care about Childcare? Women’s Relative Resources and Men’s Preferences for Work–Family Reconciliation Policies." Social Politics, 2024.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Changing faces of political women in Tokyo." Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2023.
  • Estevez-Abe, M. (Primary Investigator), Caponio, T., "Badante or bride? Patterns of female migration in Italy, Japan, Korea and Spain." International Migration Review, 2022.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., Ranci, C., "COVID-19 and Long-Term Care Policy for Older People in Japan." Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 2021.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., Yang, J. and Choi, Y. ., "Beyond Familialism." In This is part of a special journal issue that I have organized.. Journal of European Social Policy, 2016.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., Naldini, M., "Politics of Defamilialization: A Comparative Study of Italy, Japan, Korea and Spain." Journal of European Social Policy, 2016.
• Book Chapters
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Long-term care systems and their pandemic preparedness: lessons from COVID-19." In Research Handbook on Social Care Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Social Welfare Policy in Japan." In Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics. Oxford University Press, 2022.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., Yang, J. and Faricy, C., "The Electoral Bases of Small Tax States." In The Small Welfare States . Edward Elgar, 2022.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., León, M., "Different Paths to Social Investment? The Politics of Social Investment in North-East Asia and Southern Europe." In The World Politics of Social Investment Volume I: Welfare States in the Knowledge Economy. Garritzmann, J. L., Häusermann, S. and Palier, B. (eds.) Oxford University Press, 2022.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., Yang, J. and Faricy, C., "The electoral bases of small tax states in Japan, South Korea, and the US." In The Small Welfare State. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "The old and new welfare politics in Japan: Persisting obstacles to reform." In Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan. Chiavacci , D., Hommerich, C. (eds.) Routledge, 2017.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Skills strategies for an inclusive society: what can we learn from European experiences?." In Skills Strategies for An Inclusive Society: the Role of the State, the Enterprise and the Worker. Sung, J., Ramos, C. (eds.) Institute of Adult Learning, Ministry of Education, 2014.
• Book Reviews
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Seikan Sukuramu-gata Riidashippu no Hokai by Michio Muramatsu." Social Science Japan Journal, 2012.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Review of the Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Robert Goodin et al." British Journal of Industrial Relation, 2003.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Review of Kigyôka no Ronri to Taisei no Kôzu by Jun Watanabe." Social Science Japan Journal, 2001.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Review of Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife by Robin M. LeBlanc." Women and Politics, 2000.
• Others
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "The Varieties of Capitalism Perspective on Sex Segregation." Rebaisan (a Japanese language political science journal), 2011.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Why Gender Gaps Persist in Japan: A Comparative Examination of Institutional Prerequisites for Gender Equality." Nihon Rodo Kenkyu Zasshi (a Japanese language labor economics/sociology journal), 2011.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Voters Finally in Control: The Changing Japanese Welfare State." Global Asia, 2009.
• Working Papers
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Political Economy of Outsourcing of Domestic Work." Carlo Alberto Working Papers, 2014.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Beyond the Familialist State? Outsourcing Care in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan." Carlo Alberto Working Papers, 2013.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., Hethey, T., "Institutions and Wives' Contribution to Household Income." Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper, 2008.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Japan’s New Extrovert Leaders: How Institutions Change Incentives and Capabilities." Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Working Paper, 2007.
  • Estevez-Abe, M., "Multiple Logics of the Welfare State." The US-Japan Program, 2000.

OSES Online Research Workshop, University of Padua, "Sustainable Population Ageing and Inter-Generational Justice" (November 7, 2025)

Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), "Robots, Migration, and Skills: How Aging Economies Address Labor Shortages" (July 8, 2025)

The US-Japan Program Speaker Series, Harvard University, "Citizenship and Multiculturalism in East Asia: Globalizing the Family in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan" (March 24, 2025)

Guest Speaker Series, Keio High School at New York, "A New Twist in Female Political Representation in Japan: What’s Happening in Tokyo?" (April 6, 2024)

Global Japan Speaker Series, University of Toronto , "A New Twist in Female Political Representation in Japan: What’s Happening in Tokyo?" (March 8, 2024)

Guest Lecture, Princeton University , "Globalizing the Family: Marriage Migration in East Asia" (April 27, 2023 - April 28, 2023)

Transforming Care Annual Conference, Transforming Care Network, "LTC systems and pandemic preparedness: lessons from the COVID-19" (June 25, 2021)

O'Hanley Faculty Fellow (2023)

Bob McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence (July, 2023)