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Office Hours:
Tuesday
9:00 - 12:00
and by appointment
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Courses Taught
PSCI 0103: Introduction to Comparative Politics
PSCI 0221: Contemporary Chinese Politics
PSCI 0316: Chinese Foreign Policy
PSCI 0327: East Asian Democracy
PSCI 0413: Mass Media and Democratization
Research Interests
Mass Media and Democratization
Federalism and Federacies
Electoral Reform in Consolidated Democracies
East Asian Politics
Recent Publications
"Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in Contemporary China," Freedom House, February 2006
"Cornering the Market: State Strategies for Controlling China's Commercial Media," Asian Perspective , Vol. 29, No. 4 2005,
http:://www.asianperspective.org/articles/v29n4-b.pdf
Culture Clash: Rising China vs. Asian Democratization, Book Review of Rising China and Asian Democratization: Socialization to "Global Culture" in the Political Transformations of Thailand, China, and Taiwan by Daniel C. Lynch, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, December 2006, Vol. 2, No. 2, http://www.tfd.org.tw/docs/dj0202/10%20Ashley%20Esarey.pdf
Book Review of Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China , by Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiabo Lu, Journal of International Affairs, Fall 2003, Vol. 57, No. 3
Works in Progress
Liberalization without Freedom: An Analysis of China’s Newspapers, (Forthcoming in a volume edited by Susan Shirk, University of California at San Diego)
"Holding China Together: Institutional Solutions for a Democratic Future"
Growth of Intellectual Pluralism and Dissent in Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China with Merle Goldman, Research Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University (forthcoming in a volume edited by Larry Diamond and Bruce Gilley)
Under the Radar: Political Satire and Criticism of the State in the Chinese Blogosphere with Xiao Qiang, Director, China Internet Project, University of California at Berkeley (forthcoming with Asian Survey)
"Reconsidering Weingast Market-preserving Federalism in Contemporary China"
"Bloggers vs. the Propaganda State: Political Discourse in Official Media and Web logs in China"
"Irrational Actors?: Small-party Support for Single-member Electoral Districts in Japan and Taiwan"