Nicholas A.R. Fraser is an Associate at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy as well as the Centre for the Study of Global Japan. His research applies a variety of methods to ongoing debates in comparative politics such as what shapes policy outcomes, institutional change, and to what extent ideas influence politics. He uses a variety of research methods including qualitative (archival studies, interviews) and quantitative (multi-level and time-series analysis; surveys; experiments; text-as-data).

Fraser’s main area of expertise is in what factors shape the design and implementation of immigration policy, but he is also interested in how interest groups, bureaucratic agencies and courts influence policy as well as the politics of identity and human rights protection. For more details on his teaching experience and research projects please see the Research and CV pages on his website.

Fraser holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto. Before coming to Toronto, he worked as an intern for Japan Association for Refugees and completed a Master’s degree at Waseda University under the Monbukagakusho Scholarship offered by the Japanese government.