State-building
Scholarly Publications
New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan
January 2014
New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan takes a creative and comparative view of the new challenges and dynamics confronting these maturing democracies.
The Institutional Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia
August 2011
Why do some countries in the developing world achieve growth with equity, while others do not?
At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-building in Republican Shanghai
December 2007
To a degree uncommon in among Chinese cities, Republican Shanghai had no center.
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Now It Gets Much Harder: Thomas Fingar and Jean Oi Discuss China’s Challenges in The Washington Quarterly
March 2020
In the last forty years, China has reemerged as a tremendous geopolitical, economic, and technological power on the world stage.
Old Events
Liberal Taiwan versus Illiberal South Korea: The Divergent Paths of Electoral Campaign Regulation
November 11, 2015
Abstract:Both South Korea and Taiwan are considered consolidated democracies, but the two countries have developed very different sets of electoral campaign regulations.
Science and Secularity: Rethinking Religous Reform
October 9, 2008
This series of talks explore a number of issues which have arisen from a study of ethnogenesis, identity formation, state building, religious reform, and socio-economic "modernization" in selected...
Dynamics of Identity: Empires, States & Groups
October 6, 2008
This series of talks explore a number of issues which have arisen from a study of ethnogenesis, identity formation, state building, religious reform, and socio-economic "modernization" in selected...
Projects
The PRC at 70: Past, Present -- and Future?
IMPORTANT EVENT UPDATE: In keeping with Stanford University's March 3 message to the campus community on COVID-19 and current recommendations of the CDC, the China Program is making modifications...
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An Expanding Toolkit: The Evolution of Governance in China
China has undergone historic economic, social and cultural transformations since its Opening and Reform.
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