General
Office hours: Starting 9/23, Tuesday & Thursday 10a to 11:30a in 157 Merrill Faculty Annex, and by appointment
About me: Bio, curriculum vitae, UCSC profile
Institutional links: UC Santa Cruz, Politics Department
Maps: Area, city, campus, college, aviation
Research
Full overview of my work on local organizations in China and Taiwan, and on field research methods; articles and book chapters listed by topic with links to full text [link]
Books:
Field Research in Political Science, with D. Kapiszewski and L.M.M. MacLean, under advance contract, Cambridge UP
Roots of the State: Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei, under contract, Stanford UP
Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia, edited with R. Pekkanen, Routledge 2009 [link]
Commentary
Book reviews, interviews and essays [link]
Recent reads [link]
Courses
Current:
eCommons course sites | How to read in college | What to call me? | absence form
Guidelines for presentations | guidelines for reading responses | checklist for all written work
Poli 60 Comparative Politics / Introduction to the Politics of the Developing World, Spring 2010 [syllabus]
Poli 190t Governance and Conflict in East Asia, Spring 2010 [syllabus]
Previously Taught:
Poli 141 Politics of China, Winter 2010 [syllabus]
Poli 143 Foreign Relations of China, Fall 2009 [syllabus]
Poli 200b Social Forces and Political Change, graduate seminar, Fall 2008 [syllabus]
030:179 Human Rights and Asian Values, Fall 2007 (U. of Iowa) [syllabus]
030:347 Associations, Networks, and Trust in the Realm of Politics, graduate seminar, Fall 2006 (U. of Iowa) [syllabus]
030:173 Voluntary Organizations and Politics in Comparative Perspective, Fall 2005 (Georgetown U.) [syllabus]
Miscellaneous
Java tools for learning and maintaining Chinese: self-quizzes on traditional vs. simplified characters | Chinese surnames
VBA macros for Word: general | annotation
Notes on software that I use