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Tianjian Shi, Associate Professor

Tianjian Shi
Contact Info:
Office Location:  405 Perkins Library
Office Phone:  (919) 660-4306
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Teaching (Fall 2009):

Teaching (Spring 2010):

Education:

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

Comparative Politics
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.

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. 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 .
  2. T. Shi, Avoiding Mutual Misunderstanding: Sino-U.S. Relations and the New Administration (January, 2009), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace .
  3. Jie Lu and T. Shi, Rural Elections in China: Mobilization or Learning?, Comparative Politics (Accepted, 2009) .
  4. T. Shi and Diqing Lou, Subjective Evaluation of Changes in Civil Liberties and Political Rights in China, Journal of Contemporary China (Accepted, 2009) .
  5. T. Shi, China: Democratic Values Supporting an Authoritarian System, in How East Asians View Democracy, edited by Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, Andrew Nathan, and Doh Chull Chin (August, 2008), pp. 209-37, Columbia University .