Lecture 17: Why the World Should Take China‘s Anticorruption Seriouly

2015/1/27 16:43:49

Lecture 17: Why the World Should Take China‘s Anticorruption Seriouly                       Jan . 27 . 2015

Title: WHY THE WORLD SHOULD TAKE CHINA’S CURRENT ANTICORRUPTION CAMPAIGN SERIOUSLY

Guest Speaker：Professor Melanie Manion

Time: 15:30 - 17:00, Jan. 5

Venue: Room 3005, Xin Jian BLD

Brief Introduction：

Melanie Manion is Vilas-Jordan Distinguished Achievement Professor, with a joint appointment in political science and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to her current appointment, she was an associate professor of political science at the University of Rochester. She studied philosophy and political economy at Peking University in the late 1970s, was trained in Far Eastern studies at McGill University and the University of London, and earned her doctorate in political science at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on institutions, including informal institutions, and institutionalization in Chinese politics. Her publications include work on the Chinese bureaucracy, grassroots democratization, and the political economy of corruption and good governance. Her current research examines the ongoing transformation from descriptive to substantive representation in Chinese local congresses。

Her publications include Retirement of Revolutionaries in China (Princeton University Press, 1993), Corruption by Design (Harvard University Press, 2004), Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies (co-edited, Cambridge University Press, 2010), and articles in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and China Quarterly.