We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China's Communist State, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Daniel Koss, an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science of Academia Sinica, Taipei, who earned his PhD in Government … [Read more...]
Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist State
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Daniel Koss (Cambridge University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In most non-democratic countries, today governing forty-four percent of the world population, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain … [Read more...]
Sheena Greitens’ Study of the WEAI “Dictators and Their Secret Police” Wins APSA and ISA Best Book Awards
We congratulate Sheena Chestnut Greitens, assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri, whose Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence was named the co-winner of the 2017 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) Section on Comparative … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Diana Fu’s “Mobilizing Without the Masses”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Diana Fu, an assistant professor of Asian politics at the University of Toronto. Mobilizing Without the Masses was awarded the 2018 Gregory … [Read more...]
Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Diana Fu (Cambridge University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Winner, 2018 Gregory Luebbert Prize for the best book on Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association (APSA) When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take the streets, what do they do? … [Read more...]
