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Tianjian Shi, Associate Professor

Tianjian Shi
Contact Info:
Office Location:  405 Perkins Library
Office Phone:  +1 919 660 4306
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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, Cultural Values and Democracy in Mainland China, China Quarterly, vol. 162 (2000), pp. 540-59 (Reprinted in Elections and Democracy in Greater China, edited by Larry Diamond and Ramon H. Myers, Oxford University Press, 2001, 176-196.) .
  2. Tangbiao Xiao, Tianjian Shi with Qiu Xinyou and Yu Wenhua, "Linage and Village Governance in Contemporary China: Multidisciplinary Research", edited by Dangdai Zhongguo, Nongcun Zonzu, Yu Xiangcun Zhili: Kuaxueke de Yanjiu Yu Duihua (2002), Xian, Shanxi: Xian University Press .
  3. T. Shi, Chinese Democracy after Tiananmen by Yijiang Ding", The China Review (2002), pp. 132-35 .
  4. T. Shi, Transition from Communism in China: Institutional and Comparative Analyses, edited by Edwin A. Winckler, The China Journal (2001), pp. 183-84 .
  5. T. Shi, Transitions from State Socialism: Economic and Political Change in Hungary and China by Tong Yanqi, American Political Science Review, vol. 95 no. 1 (2001), pp. 246-247 .