Tianjian Shi, Associate Professor, Political Science
| Office Location: | 405 Perkins Library |
| Office Phone: | +1 919 660 4306 |
| Email Address: | ![]() |
| Web Page: |
- Education:
PhD Columbia University 1992 Certificate University of Michigan 1987 M.A. Columbia University 1983 LL.B. Peking University 1982
- Specialties:
- Cultural Studies
- 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.
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- 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.) .
- 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 .
- T. Shi, Chinese Democracy after Tiananmen by Yijiang Ding", The China Review (2002), pp. 132-35 .
- T. Shi, Transition from Communism in China: Institutional and Comparative Analyses, edited by Edwin A. Winckler, The China Journal (2001), pp. 183-84 .
- 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 .
- Recent Grant Support
- Survey of Political Culture and Political Change, Carter Center, 2005/01-2006/12.
- Community Resident Committee Elecftion and Rule of Law in China, Henry Ford Foundation, 2003/09-2006/08.
- Media Effects on Values, CCK Foundation, 2003/07-2006/07.
