BRUCE J. DICKSON Department of Political Science George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052 202-994-4186; fax: 202-994-7743 e-mail: bdickson@gwu.edu Current Position George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1993-. Chair, Political Science Department, 2016-present. Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, 2005-present. Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, 1999-2005. Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, 1993-99. Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, 2004-2006. Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, 1998-2001, 2014-2016. Associate Editor, Problems of Post-Communism, 1996-2006. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1986-1994. Ph.D. in Political Science, April 1994. Education University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1980-1982. M.A. in Asian Studies granted by the Center for Chinese Studies, August 1982. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1976-1980. Double major in Political Science and English Literature. B.A. with Distinction, May 1980. Books The Dictator s Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party s Strategy for Survival (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016). Allies of the State: Democratic Support and Regime Support among China s Private Entrepreneurs (Harvard University Press, 2010), co-author with Jie Chen. Wealth into Power: The Communist Party s Embrace of China s Private Sector (New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change (New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 2003); also translated into Chinese and Russian. 1
China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future, co-editor with Thomas Buoye, Kirk Denton, Barry Naughton, and Martin K. Whyte (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, 2002). Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy: Democratic Consolidation and External Relations, co-editor with Chien-min Chao (M.E. Sharpe, 2002). Remaking the Chinese State: Strategies, Society and Security, co-editor with Chien-min Chao (New York and London: Routledge, 2001). Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist Parties (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). A Research Guide to Central Party and Government Meetings in China, 1949-1986 (White Plains, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1989), revised edition. Coauthor with Kenneth Lieberthal. Economic Relations in the Asian-Pacific Region, co-editor with Harry Harding (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1987). The Emerging Pacific Community: A Regional Perspective, co-editor with Robert Downen (Boulder, Co.: Westview, 1984). Journal Articles Public Goods and Regime Support in Urban China, China Quarterly, forthcoming (co-author with Pierre Landry, Mingming Shen, and Jie Yan). Generating Regime Support in Contemporary China: Legitimation and the Local Legitimacy Deficit, Modern China, forthcoming (with Mingming Shen and Jie Yan). Victims and Patriots: Disaggregating Nationalism in Urban China, Journal of Contemporary China, forthcoming (co-author with Jackson Woods). Who Wants to Be a Communist? Career Incentives and Mobilized Loyalty in Contemporary China, China Quarterly, no. 217 (March 2014), pp. 42-68. Revising Reform: China s New Leaders and the Challenge of Governance, China: An International Journal, vol. 10, no. 2 (August 2012), pp. 34-51. Updating the China Model, Washington Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4 (September 2011), pp. 39-58. No Jasmine for China, Current History, vol. 110, no. 737 (September 2011), pp. 211-216. Allies of the State: Democratic Support and Regime Support among China s Private Entrepreneurs, China Quarterly, no. 196 (December 2008), pp. 780-804 (co-author with Jie 2
Chen). Integrating Wealth and Power in China: The Communist Party s Embrace of the Private Sector, China Quarterly, no. 192 (December 2007), pp. 827-854. The Future of China s Party-State: The Party Is Far from Over, Current History, vol. 107, no. 701 (September 2007), pp. 243-245. Beijing s Ambivalent Reformers, Current History, vol. 103, no. 674 (September 2004), pp. 249-255. Red Detachment of Capitalists, China Economic Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 3 (2003), pp. 42-47. Who Does the Party Represent? From Three Revolutionary Classes to Three Represents, American Asian Review, vol. 21, no. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 1-24. Threats to Party Supremacy, Journal of Democracy, vol. 14, no. 1 (January 2003), pp. 27-35. New Presidents Adjust Old Policies: US-Taiwan Relations under Chen and Bush, Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 11, no. 33 (November 2002), pp. 645-56. Cooptation and Corporatism in China: The Logic of Party Adaptation, Political Science Quarterly, vol. 115, no. 4 (Winter 2000-2001), pp. 517-540 (reprinted in Lowell Dittmer and Guoli Liu, eds., China's Deep Reform: Domestic Politics in Transition [Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006]; and Yongnian Zheng, Yiyi Lu, and Lynn White III, eds., The Politics of Modern China: Critical Concepts [Routledge, forthcoming]). Membership Has Its Privileges: The Socioeconomic Characteristics of Communist Party Members in Urban China, Comparative Political Studies, vol. 33, no. 1 (February 2000), pp. 87-112 (co-author with Maria Rost Rublee). China s Democratization and the Taiwan Experience, Asian Survey, vol. 38, no. 4 (April 1998), pp. 349-64. The Lessons of Defeat: The Reorganization of the Kuomintang on Taiwan, 1950-52, China Quarterly, no. 133 (March 1993). What Explains Chinese Political Behavior? The Debate over Structure and Culture, (review essay) Comparative Politics, vol. 25, no. 1 (October 1992). Conflict and Non-Compliance in Chinese Politics: Party Rectification, 1983-87, Pacific Affairs, vol. 63, no. 2 (Summer 1990). Other Publications 3
Sustaining Party Rule in China: Coercion, Co-optation and their Consequences, in Nathan J. Brown, ed., The Dynamics of Democratization: Dictatorship, Development, and Diffusion (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2011). Who Consents to the Beijing Consensus? Crony Communism in China, in S. Philip Hsu, Yu-Shan Wu, and Suisheng Zhao, eds., In Search of China s Development Model: Beyond the Beijing Consensus (New York and London: Routledge, 2011). China s Cooperative Capitalists: The Business End of the Middle Class, in Cheng Li, ed., China s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2010). Surveying Prospects for Political Change: Capturing Political and Economic Variation in Empirical Research in China, in Allen Carlsen, Mary Gallager, Kenneth Lieberthal, and Melanie Manion, eds., Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Dilemmas of Party Adaptation: The CCP s Strategies for Survival, in Peter Hays Gries and Stanley Rosen, eds., Chinese Politics: State, Society, and the Market (New York and London: Routledge, 2010). The Future of the Chinese Communist Party, in Jae Ho Chung, ed., Charting China's Future: Political, Social, and International Dimensions (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006). Cooptation and Corporatism in China: The Logic of Party Adaptation, in Lowell Dittmer and Guoli Liu, eds., China's Deep Reform: Domestic Politics in Transition (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006). Who Does the Party Represent? From Three Revolutionary Classes to Three Represents, in Tun-jen Cheng, Jacques DeLisle, and Deborah Brown, eds., China under Hu Jintao: Opportunities, Dangers, and Dilemmas (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2006). Economics as the Central Task: Do Entrepreneurs Matter? in David M. Finkelstein and Maryanne Kivlehan, eds., China s Leadership in the 21 st Century: The Rise of the Fourth Generation (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003). Do Good Businessmen Make Good Citizens? An Emerging Collective Identity among China s Private Entrepreneurs, in Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman, eds., Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002). Taiwan s Challenge to U.S. Foreign Policy, in Dickson and Chao, eds., Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy: Democratic Consolidation and External Relations (M.E. Sharpe, 2002). Taiwan s Democratization: What Lessons for China? in Muthiah Alagappa, ed., Taiwan s Presidential Politics: Democratization and Cross-Strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2001). 4
The Republic of China on Taiwan s Pragmatic Diplomacy, in Alexander C. Tan, Steve Chan, and Calvin Jillson, eds., Taiwan s National Security: Dilemmas and Opportunities (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001). The Evolution of the State in the Republic of China on Taiwan, in David Shambaugh, ed., The Modern Chinese State (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Leninist Adaptability in China and Taiwan, in Edwin A. Winckler, ed., Transitions from Communism in China: Institutional and Comparative Perspectives (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1999). Political Instability at the Middle and Lower Levels: Signs of a Decaying CCP, Corruption, and Political Dissent, in David Shambaugh, ed., Is China Unstable? Assessing the Factors (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999). Unsettled Succession: China s Critical Moment, The National Interest (Fall 1997), pp. 64-72. The Kuomintang before Democratization: Organizational Change and the Role of Elections, in Hung-mao Tien, ed., Taiwan s Electoral Politics and Democratic Transition: Riding the Third Wave (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996). The Origins, Processes, and Outcomes of Great Political Reforms: A Framework of Analysis, in Dankwart Rustow and Kenneth Paul Erickson, eds. Comparative Political Dynamics: Global Research Perspectives (Harper and Row, 1991). Coauthor with Michel Oksenberg. Working Papers Coping with Growth: Comparing Models of Development in Guangdong and Chongqing, with Chunhua Chen. Presentations The Chinese Communist Party s Strategy for Survival, Peking University, May 24, 2016; Dallas: World Affairs Council, April 29, 2016; University of Michigan, April 25, 2016. Defining Democracy in China, Peking University, October 24, 2015; Seoul Forum for International Affairs, July 2, 2015; George Washington University, April 29, 2015; University of Pennsylvania, November 7, 2013; Villanova University, November 6, 2013. Regime Support in China, Hong Kong University, October 19, 2015; Korea University, June 30, 2015. Political Attitudes in China, US Department of State, March 31, 2015. 5
Political Trust in China, Eurasia Group for National Intelligence Council, June 19, 2014. Can the CCP Cope with Change? International Department, Chinese Communist Party, Beijing, May 22, 2014. Delivering the Goods: Public Goods and Popular Support in Urban China, Fudan University, May 18, 2014. Can China Be Governed? China Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, March 7, 2014. What China Can Learn from Taiwan s Democratization, Taiwan Center, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, March 6, 2014. They Have Issues: Public Goods and Regime Support in China, presented at The Rise of Public Opinion in China: An International Conference, University of Iowa, October 18, 2013. Victims and Patriots: Disaggregating Nationalism in China, (co-author with Jackson Woods), presented at the 2013 AAS Annual Conference, San Diego, California, March 23, 2013. Red Capitalists: The Emergence of China s Private Sector, presented at Copenhagen Business School, November 26, 2012; and University of Mary Washington, November 7, 2012. Generating Popular Support in China: The Material, Normative, and Institutional Bases for Regime Survival, (co-author with Mingming Shen), University of Pittsburgh, November 10, 2012. The CPC and Governance Challenges, conference Reforming the Communist Party of China, co-sponsored by the CPC International Department and the China Policy Program of George Washington University, Beijing, June 6-8, 2011. They Have Issues: Do Public Goods Produce Public Support in China? Association for Asian Studies, April 2011. China s Cooperative Capitalists: The Business End of Civil Society, Civil Society and Non-Profits in China Conference, Harvard University, January 21, 2011. Updating the China Model, annual Eddy Lecture, Ohio Wesleyan University, October 27, 2010; repeated at Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University, February 23, 2011; Michel Oksenberg Memorial Conference, Stanford University, May 4, 2011; Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, March 13, 2012; Research Center for Chinese Business and Politics, Indiana University, April 14, 2012. Public Goods and Public Support in China, presented at the Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, September 2010; University of Toronto, October 1, 6
2010. Allies of the State: China s Private Entrepreneurs and Democratic Change, Compilation and Translation Bureau, Chinese Communist Party, July 16, 2010. Generating Popular Support in China: Interests, Goods, and Values, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, April 2010. How Institutionalized is China s Authoritarianism? Georgetown University, October 16, 2009. Buying Into The State: The Example Of Private Entrepreneurs In China, Brookings Conference on Middle Class in China, September 2009. The Chinese Communist Party after Tiananmen, American Enterprise Institute, May 26, 2009. What Democracy Means in China after Thirty Years of Reform, Congressional Executive Commission on China: Roundtable discussion, May 22, 2009. Who Wants To Be A Communist? The Appeal of Party Membership in Contemporary China, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, March 29, 2009. China s Cooperative Capitalists, presentation at Stanford University (February 2009), University of Wisconsin (March 2009), Harvard University (March 2009). Engaging the State: Political Activities of Private Entrepreneurs in China, presented at the Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, September 2008 (co-author with Jie Chen). Recent Trends in American Studies of Chinese Politics, Renmin University, Bejing China, June 23, 2008. Who Consents to the Beijing Consensus : Crony Communism in China, presented at the Washington Consensus versus Beijing Consensus conference, University of Denver, May 29-June 1, 2008. Democratization and Authoritarianism in China, presented at the Rule and Reform in the Giants: China and India Compared, Harvard University, November 30-December 1, 2007 The Role of Private Entrepreneurs in China s Political Change, (co-author with Jie Chen) annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 31, 2007. Integrating Wealth and Power in Contemporary China, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, April 25, 2007; Sigur Center for Asian Studies, GWU, December 4, 2007. Money Changes Everything: The Economic and Political Views of Local Officials and Private Entrepreneurs in China, presented at the Sources and Methods in Chinese Politics Conference, 7
Center for Chinese Studies, University Of Michigan, November 3-5, 2006. The Integration of Political and Economic Elites in China, at Yale University, September 21, 2006. The Political Impact of Privatization in China, annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, March 2006. Turning Wealth into Power? The Political Influence of China s Private Entrepreneurs, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University, September 22, 2005. Privatization and Democratization in China: Rethinking the Influence of Red Capitalists, annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 3, 2005. The Political Implications of Privatization in China, presented at the conference on China s Economic and Sociopolitical Transformation: Measuring China s Private Sector and Its Development, sponsored by Centra Technology, Arlington, Virginia, April 22, 2005. The Future of the Chinese Communist Party, presented at the Determinants of China s Future Conference at Seoul National University, December 6-7, 2004. The Decline of the Kuomintang, Yale University, May 1, 2004. Is the CCP Adapting to Social Change? Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, January 29, 2004. Democratic Consolidation in Taiwan, Atlantic Council, March 19, 2003. Red Capitalists in China, Wilson Center, May 13, 2003. Threats to Party Supremacy, presented at the China s Political Future symposium, co-sponsored by the International Forum for Democratic Studies (National Endowment for Democracy) and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University, January 17, 2003. Who Does the Party Represent? presented at the China after the 16 th Party Congress conference, St. John s University, November 16, 2002. Economics as the Central Task: Do Entrepreneurs Matter? presented at China s Leadership Transition: Prospects and Implications conference, Center for Naval Analysis, Alexandria, Virginia, December 3-4, 2001. U.S. Policy toward Taiwan, Sigur Center for Asian Studies series on U.S. Relations with Asia, March 6, 2001. Private Entrepreneurs and the Party in China: Agents or Obstacles to Political Change? 8
presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, March 22, 2001. The Direction and Scope of Party Politics in Taiwan, commentary at American Enterprise Institute symposium on A New Era in Taiwan s Democracy, October 23, 2000. Comparing Political Leadership in China and Taiwan, roundtable presentation at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 3, 2000. Democratic Development in Taiwan: A Model for the PRC?, delivered at Taiwan Presidential Elections: Outcome and Implications conference, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 20-22, 2000. Taiwan s Challenge to US Foreign Policy, delivered at Taiwan s Developments under President Lee Teng-hui conference, Taipei, Taiwan, May 13, 2000; repeated at the National University of Singapore, May 16, 2000. Taiwan s Presidential Election and its Implications for the United States, Sigur Center lecture series, George Washington University, April 4, 2000. Assessing the Presidential Election in Taiwan: The Domestic Dimension, Taiwan Studies Workshop, Harvard University, March 21, 2000. Current Trends in US-China Relations, University of Delaware, January 13, 2000. Do Good Businessmen Make Good Citizens? An Emerging Collective Identity among China s Private Entrepreneurs, paper delivered at the Changing Views of Citizenship in China conference, Harvard University, October 29-31, 1999. Political Trends in China, presented at the Trends in China Watching: Observing the PRC at 50" conference, George Washington University, October 8-9, 1999. Trends in US-China Relations, Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, July 29, 1999. Prospects for Democratization in China, Chinese American Society conference at George Washington University, June 18, 1999. Understanding Anti-American Protests in China and their Implications for US Policy, media briefing, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, May 12, 1999. Political and Cultural Trends in Taiwan, at Elliott School seminar Business Opportunities in Taiwan: What Technology Companies Need to Know, April 29, 1999. Political and Social Trends in China, briefing at the Pentagon, April 28, 1999. Current Political Trends in China, media briefing prior to US visit by Prime Minister Zhu 9
Rongji, April 2, 1999. Agents of Change? Private Entrepreneurs and Local Officials in China, Elliott School brown bag series, March 31, 1999. Private Entrepreneurs and Political Change in China, delivered at the annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, March 12, 1999; repeated at the Sigur Center faculty seminar series, March 25, 1999. The Struggle for Taiwan s Future: Assessing the Mayoral and Legislative Elections in Taiwan, Sigur Center for Asian Studies special event, George Washington University, December 11, 1998. The Chinese State in Transition: Reform of the Chinese Communist Party, presentation to the Council on Foreign Relations study group on Governance in China, October 20, 1998. Political Instability at the Middle and Lower Levels: Signs of a Decaying CCP, Corruption, and Political Dissent, presentation at the Is China Unstable? Assessing the Factors conference, George Washington University, June 18, 1998. Is China s Political Situation Stable? presentation at the China: What Lies Ahead? seminar, cosponsored by The George Washington University s Elliott School of International Affairs and the Brookings Institution, May 19, 1998. Local Political Trends in China, presentation at breakfast briefing for Congressmen and staff, sponsored by the Wilson Center for International Scholars, May 8, 1998. The Political Impulses Behind Taiwan s Pragmatic Diplomacy, delivered at the Taiwan s Democratization and Changing National Security Interests at Southern Methodist University, April 18, 1998. The Evolution of the State in the Republic of China on Taiwan, delivered at Evolution of the Chinese State symposium in memory of Franz Michael, George Washington University, October 3, 1997. Cooptation and Corporatism in China: Party Adaptation and the Logic of Inclusion, delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 30, 1997. Membership Has Its Privileges: The Socio-Economic Characteristics of Party Members in Urban China, delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 29, 1997. Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist Parties, delivered May 7, 1997 at Harvard University, sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (keynote address for conference on village level elections in China and Taiwan). The Post-Deng Transition in China, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington 10
University, March 26, 1997. Why the Taiwan Issue Won t Go Away, at Union College, Schenectady, NY, May 11, 1996. Assessing Taiwan s Recent Elections, at Pacific Affairs Study Society brown bag series, January 1996. The So-Called Succession Crisis in China, at the George Washington University Alumni College symposium, China: Glorious Past, Uncertain Future, July 1995. Changes in Party Recruitment, 1949-1985: An Analysis of County-level Data, delivered at the 1995 Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., April 1995. The Adaptability of Leninist Parties: A Comparison of the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang, delivered at the 1993 American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., September 1993. The Evolution of Leninist Parties, delivered at the Institute for Social Science and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1991. Grants and Awards Smith Richardson Foundation, 2014-2016. Trachtenberg Undergraduate Teaching Award, George Washington University, 2010. National Science Foundation, 2009-12. National Science Foundation, 2006-08. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Visiting Fellow, 2006-07. Smith Richardson Foundation, 2004-05. Luce Foundation, 2000 (conference grant). Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, 2000 (conference grant). United States Institute of Peace, 1998-99. Smith Richardson Foundation, 1997-98. University Facilitating Funds, George Washington University, 1997. Junior Scholar Incentive Program, George Washington University, 1997. Junior Scholar Incentive Program, George Washington University, 1996. Committee on Scholarly Communication with China, 1995-96. University Facilitating Funds, George Washington University, 1994. Young Scholar Award, China Times Cultural Foundation, New York, 1992. Dissertation Research Grant, Pacific Cultural Foundation, Taiwan, 1991-92. Center for Chinese Studies Endowment Award, University of Michigan, 1991. Rackham Dissertation/Thesis Grant, University of Michigan, 1991. Regents Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1986-1991. Membership in Professional Organizations 11
American Political Science Association, 1987 to present. Association of Asian Studies, 1989 to present. National Committee on US-China Relations, 2001 to present. Professional Service Editorial board, Issues and Studies, Journal of Chinese Political Science. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants, Grants Proposal Review Panel, 2011-2012. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Division of Social Sciences, External Examiner, 2014-2016. Book reviews in American Political Science Review, China Journal, China Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Governance, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Pacific Affairs. Peer reviewer for Amer-Asian Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Asian Survey, China Journal, China Quarterly, Communist and Post-communist Studies, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Journal of East Asian Studies, Journal of Politics, Modern China, Pacific Affairs, Political Parties, Political Research Methods, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Politics; Cambridge University Press, CQ Press, Harvard University Press, Longman, Lynne Reinner, Norton, Oxford University Press, Polity, Routledge, Stanford University Press, Westview. 12