Steven Kent Vogel is an American academic, journalist, author and political economist.
[1] Vogel has worked as a reporter for the Japan Times in Tokyo and as a freelance journalist in France.
[1] Vogel's published writings encompass 18 works in 38 publications in 3 languages and 2,034 library holdings.
[3] The 1998 Masayoshi Ōhira Memorial Prize was awarded for his work in Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries.
[citation needed] In 1994, Vogel's dissertation, "The Politics of Regulatory Reform in the Advanced Industrial Countries," won the Lasswell prize, awarded annually by the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in the field of public policy.