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Tianjian Shi, Associate Professor, Political Science

Contact Info:

Education:

PhD	Columbia University	1992
Certificate	University of Michigan	1987
M.A.	Columbia University	1983
LL.B.	Peking University	1982

Specialties:

Comparative Politics
Cultural Studies
Security, Peace, & Conflict
Political Institutions
Behavior & Identities

Research Interests: Asian Security Issues and Political Participation

Associate Professor of Political Science, specializes in comparative politics with an emphasis on political culture and political participation in Chines politics. He is the author of Political Participation in Beijing (Harvard University Press, 1997). His research has appeared in World Politics, Daedalus and Asian Survey. His current research, funded by the National Science Foundation and Henry Luce Foundation, focuses on political culture and political participation in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The research surveyed political behavior of people living in the same cultural area but different regimes. He will use the data gathered from these areas to examine the relative weight of cultural and institutional factors in explaining people's political behavior.

Keywords:

Asia • China • Hong Kong • Taiwan • Political Science

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. T. Shi, The Logic of Politics in Mainland China and Taiwan: A Cultural Basis of Attitudes and Behavior, in Cambridge University Press (2011)
2. T. Shi and Jie Lu, The Meaning of Democracy: The Shadow of Confucianism, Journal of Democracy, vol. 21 no. 4 (October, 2010), pp. 123-29  [abs]
3. T. Shi and Diqing Lou, Subjective Evaluation of Changes in Civil Liberties and Political Rights in China, Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 19 no. 63 (January, 2010), pp. 175-99 [asp]  [abs]
4. with Jie Lu and T. Shi, Rural Elections in China: Mobilization or Learning?, Comparative Politics, vol. 42 no. 1 (October, 2009), pp. 103-20  [abs]
5. T. Shi, Is There an Asian Value? Popular Understanding of Democracy in Asia, in China's Reform at 30: Challenges and Prospects, edited by Dali Yang and Iitao Zhao (February, 2009), World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, ISBN 9812834249