36365线路检测中心“学术双周”

主题: Political Participation in Rural China: Origins, Dynamics and Impact

中国农村的政治参与：根源、过程与后果

时间：2009年11月11日 下午14：00-16：00

地点：明德主楼930会议室

Kevin J. O’Brien

演讲人：Kevin J. O’Brien，

美国加州大学伯克利分校：亚洲研究Alann P. Bedford教授(2005-)，中国研究中心主任(2005-2008)

主持人： 温铁军 36365线路检测中心院长，教授

评议人： 郑风田 36365线路检测中心副院长，教授

仝志辉 36365线路检测中心副教授

内容简介: What are the origins of rightful resistance? How do rightful resisters interact with local authorities and the central government? What are the implications of rightful resistance for governance and political development in China? Professor Kevin O'Brien from the University of California at Berkeley will address these questions in his talk.

Kevin J. O’Brien教授简介：

Education

Ph.D. Yale University, 1987

B.A. Grinnell College, 1979

Academic Positions

Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2005-

Professor of Political Science, UC-Berkeley, 2000-

Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, UC-Berkeley, 1997-99

Assistant and Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University, 1987-2000

Lecturer, Northeast Forestry Institute (Harbin, China), 1983-84

Recent Administrative Positions

Chair, Center for Chinese Studies, UC-Berkeley, 2005-2008

Chair, Graduate Studies Committee, Dept. of Political Science, 2001-2005

Teaching Fields and Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics, Social Movements, Peasant Politics, Local Elections, Political Power, Policy Implementation, Comparative Legislatures, Law and Politics

Books

Popular Protest in China (ed.) (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008)

Rightful Resistance in Rural China (with Lianjiang Li) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Engaging the Law in China: State, Society and Possibilities for Justice (ed. with Neil J. Diamant and Stanley B. Lubman) (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005)

Reform Without Liberalization: China’s National People’s Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990, paperback, 2008)

Articles and Book Chapters

“Local People’s Congresses and Governing China,” China Journal, (forthcoming, 2009)

“Path to Democracy? Assessing Village Elections in China,” (with Rongbin Han), Journal of Contemporary China (forthcoming, 2009)

“Studying Contention in Contemporary China,” (with Rachel E. Stern), in O’Brien, ed., Popular Protest in China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008),pp. 11-25, 219-25

“Protest Leadership in Rural China,” (with Lianjiang Li), China Quarterly, 193

(March 2008): 1-23

“Attraction Without Networks: Recruiting Strangers to Unregistered Protestantism in China,” (with Carsten T. Vala), Mobilization, 12:1 (March 2007): 79-94. Reprinted as

“Recruitment to Protestant House Churches,” in O’Brien, ed., Popular Protest

in China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008), pp. 108-25, 241-49

“Discovery, Research (Re)Design, and Theory Building,” in Maria Heimer and Stig Thøgersen, eds., Doing Fieldwork in China (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006), pp. 27-41. Excerpted in NIAS nytt Asia Insights (Copenhagen) No. 1 (April 2007)

“Popular Contention and Its Impact in Rural China” (with Lianjiang Li), Comparative Political Studies, 38:3 (April 2005): 235-259. Co-winner of the Sage Award for Best Paper in Comparative Politics delivered at the 2004 American Political Science Association Meeting

“Law and Society in the People’s Republic of China” (with Neil J. Diamant and Stanley B. Lubman). In Diamant, Lubman, and O’Brien, eds., Engaging the Law in China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005), pp. 3-27

“Suing the Local State: Administrative Litigation in Rural China,” (with Lianjiang Li), China Journal, 51 (January 2004): 76-96. Reprinted In Diamant, Lubman, and O’Brien, eds., Engaging the Law in China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005), pp. 31-53

"Neither Transgressive nor Contained: Boundary-Spanning Contention in China," Mobilization, 8:1 (February 2003): 51-64. Reprinted in Peter H. Gries and Stanley Rosen, eds., State and Society in 21st Century China (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 105-22

"Collective Action in the Chinese Countryside,” China Journal, 48 (July 2002): 139-54

"China's Contentious Pensioners," (with William Hurst), China Quarterly, 170 (June 2002): 345-60

”Villagers, Elections, and Citizenship in Contemporary China,” Modern China 27:4 (October 2001): 407-35. Reprinted in Merle Goldman and Elizabeth J. Perry,

eds., Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China (Cambridge: Harvard

University Press, 2002), pp. 212-31, 421-31; and in Lowell Dittmer and Guoli Liu,

eds. China’s Deep Reform: Domestic Politics in Transition (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), pp. 381-403

”Accommodating ‘Democracy’ in a One-Party State: Introducing Village Elections in China,” (with Lianjiang Li), China Quarterly, 162 (June 2000): 465-89. Reprinted in Larry Diamond and Ramon Myers, eds. Elections and Democracy in

Greater China (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 101-25

“Campaign Nostalgia in the Chinese Countryside,” (with Lianjiang Li), Asian Survey, 39:3 (May-June 1999): 375-93

“The Struggle over Village Elections,” (with Lianjiang Li), in Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar, eds., The Paradox of China’s Post-Mao Reforms (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 129-44, 382-89. Excerpted in Human Rights Dialogue, No. 9 (June 1997): 9-11. Expanded and translated in Chen Mingtong and Zheng Yongnian, eds., Liangan Jiceng Xuanju yu Zhengzhi Shehui Bianyi [Grassroots Elections on Both Sides of the Straits and Political and Social Change] (Taipei: Yuedan Chubanshe, 1998), pp. 325-48

“Selective Policy Implementation in Rural China,” (with Lianjiang Li), Comparative Politics, 31:2 (January 1999):167-86. Reprinted in Stephen P. Osborne (ed.), Public Management: Critical Perspectives, Volume 4: Expanding the Scope of Public Management (London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 227-48. Also translated in Renda Zhengzhixue Pinglun (People’s University Political Science Review) 1:1 (January 2003): 21-44.

“Hunting for Political Change,” China Journal, 41 (January 1999): 159-69

“Institutionalizing Chinese Legislatures: Trade-offs Between Autonomy and Capacity,” (with Laura M. Luehrmann), Legislative Studies Quarterly, 23:1 (February 1998): 91-108

“Dangdai Zhongguo Nongmin de Yifa Kangzheng” [Rightful Resistance by Contemporary Chinese Peasants], (with Lianjiang Li), in Wu Guoguang, ed., Jiuqi Xiaoying: Xianggang, Zhongguo yu Taipingyang [The 1997 Effect: Hong Kong, China and the Pacific], (Hong Kong: The Pacific Century Institute, 1997), pp. 141-69. Reprinted in Wu Yi, ed. Xiangcun Zhongguo Pinglun [Rural China Review] (Jinan: Shandong Chubanshe, 2008), pp. 1-18

“Rightful Resistance,” World Politics, 49:1 (October 1996): 31-55

“Villagers and Popular Resistance in Contemporary China,” (with Lianjiang Li), Modern

China, 22:1 (January 1996): 28-61. Reprinted in Frank N. Pieke, ed. People's

Republic of China, Volume 2 (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2003): 351-84.

“The Politics of Lodging Complaints in Rural China,” (with Lianjiang Li), China Quarterly, 143 (September 1995): 756-83

“Implementing Political Reform in China’s Villages,” Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, 32 (July 1994): 33-59. Translated in Shehuizhuyi Yanjiu 5 (October 1995): 61-65, and 6 (December 1995): 59-63. Reprinted in Villager Committee Elections in China: A Selected Collection of Essays, comp. James A. Robinson, (Atlanta and Pensacola: The Carter Center and the Florida-China Institute, 2000), pp. 6-32.

“Agents and Remonstrators: Role Accumulation by Chinese People’s Congress Deputies,” China Quarterly, 138 (June 1994): 359-80

“Chinese People’s Congresses and Legislative Embeddedness: Understanding Early Organizational Development,” Comparative Political Studies, 27:1 (April 1994): 80-107.

Reprinted in Lin Chun, ed., The International Library of Politics and Comparative

Government -- China, Volume I: Modernizing Chinese Polity (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2001).

“Chinese Political Reform and the Question of ‘Deputy Quality,’” (with Lianjiang Li), China Information, 8:3 (Winter 1993-1994): 20-31

“Bargaining Success of Chinese Factories,” China Quarterly, 132 (December 1992): 1086-1100

“Is China’s National People’s Congress a ‘Conservative’ Legislature?” Asian Survey, 30:8 (August 1990): 782-94

“Legislative Development and Chinese Political Change,” Studies in Comparative Communism, 22:1 (Spring 1989):57-75. Reprinted in Tahirih V. Lee, ed., Basic

Concepts of Chinese Law (New York: Garland Publishers, 1997), pp. 369-88

“China’s National People’s Congress: Reform and Its Limits,” Legislative Studies

Quarterly, 13:3 (August 1988): 343-74

Other Recent Writing

"What Role do Individuals Play in Collection Action?" in the “Symposium on Big, Unanswered Questions in Comparative Politics,” APSA-CP (Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association), 19:1 (Winter 2008), 300 words

“Tactical Escalation in Rural China,” (with Lianjiang Li), Études Rurales, 179 (January- July 2007): 169-192. Reprint of chapter 4 of O’Brien and Li, Rightful Resistance in Rural China

Selected Professional Activities

Editorial Board, The China Journal, 1997-

International Advisory Board, Journal of Agricultural Change, 2007-

Editorial Advisory Board, The Journal of Contemporary China, 1996-

Editorial Board, Issues and Studies, 2001-

Editorial Board and Faculty Advisory Committee, Asian Survey, 2001-

Editorial Board, Journal of Chinese Political Science, 2003-

Editorial Board, World Politics, 1999-2007

Editorial Board, Book Series on Local Governance, Zhongshan University, 2003-

Board of Directors, National Committee on US-China Relations, 1998-2001, 2002-2005

Member, Comparative Politics Section Article Award Committee of the APSA, 2005

Chair, Div. of Communist and Post-Communist Politics, 2001 APSA Meeting

External Review of a Journal for Cambridge University Press, 2005

Testified to the Congressional Executive Commission on China, 2006

Spoke at European Parliament, Brussels, 2007

Spoke at National Intelligence Council Conference, 2006

Spoke at U.S. State Department Conference, 2005

Spoke at Center for Strategic and International Studies Conference, 2006

Member, Screening Committee, SSRC-ACLS IDFR Fellowship Program

Referee of proposals for the Committee on Scholarly Communications with China, the NSF, the MacArthur Foundation, the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong

Grants and Awards

National Foreign Language Center, “The Berkeley K-16 Bridge”

Luce Foundation, “The Future of China Studies,” Co-PI

Co-winner of the Sage Award for Best Paper in Comparative Politics delivered at the

2004 American Political Science Association Meeting

Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Research Grant

Asia Foundation Research Grant

Luce Foundation, United States-China Cooperative Research Program Award

MacArthur Foundation, Program on Peace and Cooperation Research Grant

Pacific Cultural Foundation Research and Writing Grant

Ford Foundation/Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs Joint Chinese-Foreign Field Research

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Grant

CSCPRC National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China

American Philosophical Society Research Grant

Member of Phi Beta Kappa