Political Science

Assistant Professor

Phone:    (310) 338-2807
Email:     gene.park@lmu.edu

Spring 2012 Course Schedule:
POLS 465 World Political Economy
Tuesday and Thursday 1:35-2:50pm
POLS 596 SS: Rivalry and Cooperation in Asia
Tuesday 4:30-7:00pm

Spring 2012 Office Hours
Tuesday & Wednesday 3:00-4:00pm
Thursday 10:00am-12:00 noon

Dr. Gene Park specializes in comparative politics, international relations, and political economy. He has written extensively on the politics of public finance in Japan including a book entitled Spending without Taxation: FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan (Stanford University Press, 2011). He is currently working on a comparative study of taxation. Prior to arriving at LMU, he taught at Baruch College, City University of New York. Professor Park has been a Japan Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a Shorenstein Fellow at Stanford University’s Asia Pacific Research Center (APARC). He also spent two years as a visiting scholar at the Japanese Ministry of Finance’s Policy Research Institute. Dr. Park received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Institute of International Education fellowship. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Swarthmore College and a Masters of City and Regional Planning from Berkeley.