Courses Taught:
PSCI 0103: Introduction to Comparative Politics
PSCI 0221: Contemporary Chinese Politics
PSCI 0330: Comparative Development Strategies
PSCI 0449: Chinese Foreign Policy
Research Interests:
My primary area of research is the role of domestic and international civil society in development and governance, namely the role of civil society in authoritarian regimes. My second main area of research is institutional change in authoritarian regimes. Specifically I examine if institutional change is a product of feedback loops, as recent research suggests, or part of a broader evolutionary interaction between individual preferences and political and economic institutions. Additionally, I analyze international and comparative political economy issues, such as transition economies, cross-border monetary flows, and paths of development.
Publications and/or Works in Progress
Publications
Teets, Jessica, Stanley Rosen, and Peter Hays Gries. "Introduction: Political Change, Contestation and Pluralization in China Today." State and Society in 21st Century China. Peter Gries and Stanley Rosen, eds. New York: RoutledgeCurzon. Forthcoming January 2010.
Chenoweth, Erica and Jessica Teets. "To Bribe or Bomb: An Empirical Analysis into the Relationship between Corruption and Terrorism." Corruption, Global Security, and World Order. Robert I. Rotberg, ed. Washington DC: The Brookings Institution Press. 2009.
Teets, Jessica. "Post-Earthquake Relief and Reconstruction Efforts: The Emergence of Civil Society in China?" The China Quarterly 198. June 2009: 330-347.
Lewis, Orion and Jessica Teets. "Chinese Nationalism 1949-1980." Nations and Nationalism in Global Perspective: An Encyclopedia of Origins, Development, and Contemporary Transition. ABC-CLIO. June 2008.
Teets, Jessica. "Book Review: Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee’s Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries." Journal of Chinese Political Science 13. March 2008.
Current Projects
Teets, Jessica. "Independence and Mother-in-Laws: the Effect of Ministry of Civil Affairs Regulations on Civil Society Autonomy in China."
Leblang, David, Jennifer Fitzgerald, and Jessica Teets. "Defying the Law of Gravity: The Political Economy of International Migration."