Bruce Dickson

I have been teaching at the George Washington University since 1993, and am currently professor of political science and international affairs. I served as director of graduate studies in the political science department from 2004-2006, and as director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Asian Studies Program from 1998-2001. My research and teaching focus on political dynamics in China and Taiwan, especially the role of political parties in the process of political change. In addition to courses on China, I also teach on democratization and comparative politics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. My current research examines how economic reforms are changing the Chinese Communist Party's control over China's political system, its relations with society, and especially with the emerging private sector; in short, whether economic reforms are rejuvenating the party or weakening its authority. I am the author of Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist Parties (Oxford University Press, 1997), articles in Asian Survey, China Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Current History, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Democracy, and Political Science Quarterly, and co-editor of four other books.
 

Education

Ph.D. (1994) University of Michigan
 

Subjects

China,Democratization,Taiwan
 

Experience

• Professor, George Washington University, 2005 to present
• Associate Professor, George Washington University, 1999-2005
• Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University, 1998-2001
• Associate Editor, Problems of Post-Communism, 1995-2006
• Assistant Professor, George Washington University, 1993-99

Expertise

Domestic politics in China and Taiwan; democratization