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Bruce Dickson Faculty Member
Positions
- Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs 1993 -
- Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs 1999 -
- Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, IAFF , Elliott School of International Affairs 2005 -
- Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs 2014 -
- Director, Political Science , Columbian College of Arts and Sciences 2004 - 2006
- Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs 1998 - 2001
Bruce Dickson is professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University. His research and teaching focus on political dynamics in China, especially the adaptability of the Chinese Communist Party and the regime it governs. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the US Institute of Peace, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His latest book is The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century (Princeton, 2021).
Research Areas
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Affiliation
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
- “Better Than the Alternative: How Foreign Countries' Lackluster Responses to Covid-19 Bolstered CCP Legitimacy”. Party Watch Annual Report 2020: Covid-19 and Chinese Communist Party Resilience (Washington, DC: Center for Advanced China Research, 2021).. 2021
- “Revisiting the Eastonian Framework on Political Support: Assessing Different Measures of Regime Support in Mainland China”. Comparative Politics. 2020
- “Coping with Growth In China: Comparing Models of Development in Guangdong and Chongqing,”. Journal of Chinese Governance. 2018
- Generating Regime Support in Contemporary China: Legitimation and the Local Legitimacy Deficit. Modern China, vol. 43, no. 2 (March 2017), pp. 123-155.. 2017
- The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival. Washington Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 27-44.. 2017
- Victims and Patriots: Disaggregating Nationalism in Urban China. Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 26, no. 104 (2017), pp. 167-182.. 2017
- Public Goods and Regime Support in Urban China. China Quarterly, no. 228 (December 2016), pp. 859-880.. 2016
- Who Wants To Be a Communist? Career Incentives and Mobilized Loyalty in Urban China. China Quarterly. 2014
- Revising Reform: China’s New Leaders and the Challenge of Governance. China: An International Journal. 2012
- No ‘Jasmine’ for China. Current History. 2011
- Allies of the State: Democratic Support and Regime Support among China’s Private Entrepreneurs. China Quarterly. 2008
- Integrating Wealth and Power in China: The Communist Party’s Embrace of the Private Sector. China Quarterly. 2007
- The Future of China’s Party-State: The Party Is Far from Over. Current History. 2007
- China's Deep Reform: Domestic Politics in Transition 2006
- Beijing’s Ambivalent Reformers. Current History. 2004
- Who Does the Party Represent? From ‘Three Revolutionary Classes’ to ‘Three Represents. American Asian Review. 2003
- Red Detachment of Capitalists. China Economic Quarterly. 2003
- Threats to Party Supremacy. Journal of Democracy. 2003
- New Presidents Adjust Old Policies: US-Taiwan Relations under Chen and Bush. Journal of Contemporary China. 2002
- Membership Has Its Privileges: The Socioeconomic Characteristics of Communist Party Members in Urban China. Comparative Political Studies. 2000
- Cooptation and Corporatism in China: The Logic of Party Adaptation. Political Science Quarterly,. 2000
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article
- “China’s Leaders are Meeting: What’s at Stake?”. Monkey Cage blog, Washington Post. 2017
- Updating the China Model. Washington Quarterly. 2011
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book
- The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press. 2021
- The Dictator’s Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival. Oxford University Press. 2016
- Allies of the State: Democratic Support and Regime Support among China’s Private Entrepreneur. Harvard University Press. 2010
- Wealth into Power: The Communist Party’s Embrace of China’s Private Sector. New York and London: Cambridge University Press. 2008
- Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change. New York and London: Cambridge University Press. 2003
- Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy: Democratic Consolidation and External Relations. M.E. Sharpe. 2002
- China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future. None. 2002
- Remaking the Chinese State: Strategies, Society and Security. New York and London: Routledge. 2001
- Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist Parties. London and New York: Oxford University Press. 1997
- A Research Guide to Central Party and Government Meetings in China, 1949 1986. White Plains, NY: M.E. Sharpe. 1989
- Economic Relations in the Asian?Pacific Region. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. 1987
- The Emerging Pacific Community: A Regional Perspective. Boulder, Co.: Westview. 1984
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chapter
- Better Than the Alternative: How Foreign Countries' Lackluster Responses to Covid-19 Bolstered CCP Legitimacy. Party Watch Annual Report 2020: Covid-19 and Chinese Communist Party Resilience. 2021
- The Quality of Democracy in Taiwan. Taiwan's Political Re-Alignment and Diplomatic Challenges. 2018
- Sustaining Party Rule in China: Coercion, Co-optation and their Consequences. The Dynamics of Democratization: Dictatorship, Development, and Diffusion. 2011
- China’s Cooperative Capitalists: The Business End of the Middle Class. China’s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation. 2010
- Dilemmas of Party Adaptation: The CCP’s Strategies for Survival. Chinese Politics: State, Society, and the Market. 2010
- Surveying Prospects for Political Change: Capturing Political and Economic Variation in Empirical Research in China. Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies. 2010
- Cooptation and Corporatism in China: The Logic of Party Adaptation. China's Deep Reform: Domestic Politics in Transition. 2006
- The Future of the Chinese Communist Party. Charting China's Future: Political, Social, and International Dimensions. 2006
- Who Does the Party Represent? From ‘Three Revolutionary Classes’ to ‘Three Represents. China under Hu Jintao: Opportunities, Dangers, and Dilemmas. 2006
- Economics as the Central Task: Do Entrepreneurs Matter?”. China’s Leadership in the 21st Century: The Rise of the Fourth Generation. 2003
- Do Good Businessmen Make Good Citizens? An Emerging Collective Identity among China’s Private Entrepreneurs. Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China. 2002
- Taiwan’s Challenge to U.S. Foreign Policy. Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy: Democratic Consolidation and External Relations. 2002
- Taiwan’s Democratization: What Lessons for China?. Taiwan’s Presidential Politics: Democratization and Cross-Strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century. 2001
- The Republic of China on Taiwan’s ‘Pragmatic Diplomacy. Taiwan’s National Security: Dilemmas and Opportunities. 2001
- The Evolution of the State in the Republic of China on Taiwan. The Modern Chinese State. 2000
- Leninist Adaptability in China and Taiwan. Transitions from Communism in China: Institutional and Comparative Perspectives. 1999
- Political Instability at the Middle and Lower Levels: Signs of a Decaying CCP, Corruption, and Political Dissent. Is China Unstable? Assessing the Factors. 1999
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conference paper
- Institute for Chinese Studies (India) 2021
- Revisiting the Eastonian Framework on Political Support: Assessing Different Measures of Regime Support in Mainland China 2018
- Assessing Different Measures of Regime Support in Public Opinion Surveys from Authoritarian China 2017
- How Corruption Investigations Undermine Regime Support: Evidence from China 2017
- The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival 2016
- Delivering the Goods: Public Goods and Popular Support in Urban China 2014
- Generating Popular Support in China: The Material, Normative, and Institutional Bases for Regime Survival 2012
presentations
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presentation
- Book Talk, ESIA 2021
- Book Talk, ESIA 2021
- “A Centennial Celebration: The Road Ahead for China’s Communist Party”, Network 20/20 2021
- CCP at 100, US-China Policy Foundation 2021
- Book Talk, ESIA 2021
- Book Talk, ESIA 2021
- Talk on Chinese Politics, National Committee on US-China Relations event @ Potomac School, VA 2017
- Talk on Chinese Politics, National Committee on US-China Relations event @ Potomac School, VA 2017
- Talk on Chinese Politics, National Committee on US-China Relations event @ Potomac School, VA 2017
- Talk on Chinese Politics, National Committee on US-China Relations event @ Potomac School, VA 2017
- Corruption Investigations and Regime Support, Peking University 2017
- Trump Effect on US-China Relations, East China Normal University (Shanghai) 2017
- Civil Society in China, International Affairs Society, GWU 2016
- The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival, George Washington University 2016
- The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival, George Washington University 2016
- The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival, George Washington University 2016
- The Chinese Communist Party's Strategy for Survival, World Affairs Council, Dallas 2016
- The Chinese Communist Party's Strategy for Survival, World Affairs Council, Dallas 2016
- The Chinese Communist Party's Strategy for Survival, World Affairs Council, Dallas 2016
- Public Goods and Regime Support in Urban China, George Washington University 2016
- Regime Support in China, Korea University 2016
- Defining Democracy in China, Seoul Forum on International Affairs 2015
- Regime Support in China, Korea University 2015
- Defining Democracy in China, Seoul Forum on International Affairs 2015
- Victims and Patriots: Disaggregating Nationalism in China, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China 2015
- Regime Support in China, Korea University 2015
- Defining Democracy in China, Seoul Forum on International Affairs 2015
- China's Anti-Corruption Campaign: Public Opinion, US China Policy Foundation 2015
- “Political Attitudes in China”, US Department of State workshop 2015
- Csn the CCP Cope with Change?, International Department, Chinese Communist Party (Beijing) 2015
- Political Trust in China, National Intelligence Council 2015
- Foreign Service Institute, Trends in Arab politics 2014
- Updating the China Model, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2012
- Updating the China Model, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2012
- Red Capitalists: The Emergence of China’s Private Sector, Bruce Dickson 2012
- They Have Issues: Do Public Goods Produce Public Support in China?”, Association for Asian Studies 2011
- Updating the China Model, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2011
- Updating the China Model, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2010
- Generating Popular Support in China: Interests, Goods, and Values, the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies 2010
- How Institutionalized is China’s Authoritarianism?, Georgetown University 2009
- The Chinese Communist Party after Tiananmen, American Enterprise Institute 2009
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Research
principal investigator on
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Service
reviewer of
- Amer-Asian Review (Journal)
- American Political Science Association (Journal)
- Asian Perspectives (Journal)
- Asian Survey (Journal)
- Bowdoin College (Journal)
- CQ Press (Journal)
- China An International Journal (Journal)
- China Perspectives (Journal)
- China Quarterly (Journal)
- China Quarterly (Journal)
- Communist and Post-communist Studies, (Journal)
- Comparative Political Studies (Journal)
- Comparative Politics (Journal)
- Democratization (Journal)
- Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants (Journal)
- Georgetown Journal of Asian Studies (Journal)
- Governance (Journal)
- Harvard University (Journal)
- Harvard University Press (Journal)
- Hong Kong University (Journal)
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Journal)
- J of Heath Politics, Policy, and Law (Journal)
- Journal of Asian Studies (Journal)
- Journal of Conflict Resolution (Journal)
- Journal of East Asian Studies (Journal)
- London School of Economics (Journal)
- Longman (Journal)
- Middlebury College (Journal)
- Modern China (Journal)
- National Science Foundation (Journal)
- PS (Journal)
- Perspectives on Politics (Journal)
- Political Parties (Journal)
- Political Research Methods (Journal)
- Problems of Post Communism (Journal)
- Southern Methodist University (Journal)
- Tulane University (Journal)
- U. of Pennsylvania (Journal)
- University of Alberta (Journal)
- University of Georgia (Journal)
- University of Michigan Press (Journal)
- University of Texas Austin (Journal)
- University of Toronto (Journal)
professional service activities
- missing activity Member 2001 -
- Association of Asian Studies Member 1989 -
- American Political Science Association Member 1987 -
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Background
education and training
- B.A degree in Double major in Political Science and English Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Ph.D degree in Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1994
- M.A degree in Asian Studies granted by the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1982
awards and honors
- Trachtenberg Undergraduate Teaching Award, conferred by George Washington University, 2010
- Visiting Fellow, conferred by Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2007
- Young Scholar Award, conferred by China Times Cultural Foundation, New York, 1992
- Center for Chinese Studies Endowment Award, conferred by University of Michigan, 1991
- Regents’ Fellowship, conferred by University of Michigan, 1991
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Contact
full name
- Bruce Dickson
mailing address
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Political Science Department
2115 G Street NW
Monroe Hall 480
Washington, DC 20052
USA
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