Diverging Globalizations: National and Sectoral Pathways to Development in China and India
Roselyn Hsueh, Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University
China and India are two large, developing countries that have globalized and undergone tremendous development in the last several decades. Yet, they have taken separate paths toward globalization. Dr. Hsueh…
The Return of Ideology: The Search for Regime Identities in Post-Communist China and Russia
Cheng Chen, Associate Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, SUNY
This study examines post-communist Chinese regime’s ideology-building project in comparison with that in Russia, as evidenced by their respective identity and cultural politics as well as developmental strategies. …
How Far is China from the Rule of Law?
He Haibo, Professor of Law, Tsnghua University School of Law
He Haibo is Professor of Law at Tsinghua University School of Law. He is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School’s Program on East Asian Legal Studies. Professor Jacques deLisle will serve as…
Shocks, Skills, and Political Instability in Authoritarian Regimes: A Theoretical Analysis and Application in Maoist China
Victor Shih, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UCSD; Pengfei Zhang, School of Economics, Peking University; Mingxing Liu, Institute of Education Finance Research, Peking University
Non-democracies are seen as inherently unstable because of the high frequency of irregular and often violent leadership turnovers. We investigate the underlying logic of stability and instability in authoritarian…
From Economic to Social Media Experiments: The Tensions of Fragmented Authoritarianism
Maria Repnikova, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University; Kecheng Fang, Ph.D. candidate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
This study examines the latest media experiment under President Xi that aims at revitalizing the Internet by creating new party-funded digital media outlets nationally. Specifically, the paper analyses the model of…
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China-Taiwan Relations in the Tsai Ing-wen Era
Chas Freeman, Career US Diplomat; Richard Bush, Senior Fellow, Brooking Institution; Shelley Rigger, Professor of Political Science, Davidson College; Jacques deLisle, Professor of Law, Univ. of Pennsylvania
In 2016 Tsai Ing-wen, candidate from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), was elected President of Taiwan. Following eight years under a Kuomintang (KMT) president who had actively promoted closer relations…
Making Bureaucracy Work: Patronage Networks and Government Performance in China
Junyan Jiang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Contemporary China
What makes a bureaucracy effective? Conventional theories of bureaucratic effectiveness draw a sharp distinction between high-performing Weberian and low-performing patrimonial administrations, yet this dichotomy…
Public Debt and Private Investment in China
Yi Huang, Assistant Professor of Economics, The Graduate Institute of Geneva
High levels of public debt are correlated with lower economic growth across countries, but questions remain about whether this relationship is causal. Using Chinese data, this paper explores whether increasing public…
Judicial Reform in China: Notes from the Field
Neysun Mahboubi, Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Contemporary China
Just last week, the Chief Justice of China's Supreme People's Court, Zhou Qiang, drew widespread attention for denouncing Western "independence of the judiciary" in a speech to provincial judges. Over the past two…
The United States and China in a Changing World
2016-2017 CSCC Annual Public Lecture
J. Stapleton Roy, Former U.S. Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of State
Both the world and the United States role in it have changed profoundly over the last twenty-five years. US thinking about its global role has not kept pace with these changes. Our lack of strategic vision is…
