BRUCE GILLEY

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY OFFICIAL CURRICULUM VITAE May 10, 2021

Education Ph.D. 2007 Politics, M. Phil. 1991 , B.A. 1988 and Economics,

Employment

Professor, Department of Political Science, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University (Since 2008, Tenure Granted 2011, Promotion to Full Professor 2016, Succcessful Post-Tenure Review 2021)

Publications

1. Books a) Sole Authored

The German Colonial Achievement and Its Aftermath, Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway (2022). 1 Die Wahrheit über den deutschen Kolonialismus [The Truth About German Colonialism], Lüdinghausen: Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhandlung (2021).

The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns’ Epic Defense of the British Empire, Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway (2021).

The Nature of Asian Politics, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014, 262pp.

The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy, New York: Columbia University Press, 2009, 318pp.

China’s Democratic Future: How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead, New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, 297pp.

Model Rebels: The Rise and Fall of China’s Richest Village, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, 219pp.

Tiger on the Brink: Jiang Zemin and China’s New Elite, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, 395 pp.

b) Co-Edited

Bruce Gilley and Andrew O’Neil (eds.), Middle Powers and the Rise of China, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014.

Bruce Gilley and Larry Diamond (eds.), Political Change in China: Comparisons With Taiwan, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008, 307pp.

Edward Friedman and Bruce Gilley (eds.), Asia’s Giants: Comparing China and India, New York: Palgrave, 2005, 253pp.

c) Co-Authored Andrew Nathan and Bruce Gilley, China’s New Rulers: The Secret Files, New York: New York Review Books, 2003, 280pp.

2. Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Articles

“Assaults on Capitalism and Democratic Backsliding: Evidence from Asia,” Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (forthcoming).

“The Case for Colonialism”, Third World Quarterly, September 2017. Reprinted in Academic Questions, Summer 2018, 167-185.

“Local Governance Pathways to Decarbonization in China and India”, China Quarterly, September 2017, 728-748. 2 “Taxation and Authoritarian Resilience”, Journal of Contemporary China, May 2017, 452-464.

“Technocracy and Democracy as Spheres of Justice in Public Policy”, Policy Sciences, March 2017, 9-22.

“Delusions of Grandeur in the Goldilocks Zone: Contesting Middle Power Diplomatic Practice”, International Journal, December 2016, 651-658

“Chinua Achebe on the Positive Legacies of Colonialism”, African Affairs, October 2016, 646-663.

“The Challenge of the Creative Third World”, Third World Quarterly, August 2015, 1405-1420.

“Did Bush Democratize the Middle East? The Effects of External-Internal Linkages”, Political Science Quarterly, December 2013, 653-685.

“Policy Succession and the Next Cross-Straits Crisis”, Asia Policy, July 2013, 139-159.

“Using a Virtual History Conference to Teach the Iraq War”, Journal of Political Science Education, March 2013, 222-235.

“State Legitimacy: An Updated Dataset for 52 Countries”, European Journal of Political Research, August 2012, 693-699.

“Authoritarian Environmentalism and China’s Response to Climate Change”, Environmental Politics, March 2012, 287-307.

“Beyond the Four Percent Solution: Explaining the Consequences of China’s Rise”, Journal of Contemporary China, November 2011, 795-811.

“Middle Powers During Great Power Transitions: China’s Rise and Canada-U.S. Relations”, International Journal, Spring 2011, 245-264.

“Paradigms of China’s Politics: Kicking Society Back Out”, Journal of Contemporary China, June 2011, 517-533.

“Democratic Enclaves in Authoritarian Regimes”, Democratization, June 2010, pp. 389– 415.

“Reclaiming Legitimacy in China”, Politics & Policy, June 2010, pp. 395-422 (with Heike Holbig).

“The Debate on Party Legitimacy in China: A Mixed Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis”, Journal of Contemporary China, March 2009, pp. 339-358 (with Heike Holbig). 3

“Reawakening Canada’s China Policy”, Canadian Foreign Policy, June 2008, pp. 121- 130.

“Legitimacy and Institutional Change: The Case of China”, Comparative Political Studies, March 2008, 259-284.

“Thick or Thin Conceptions of Human Rights?: An Empirical Intervention”, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, March 2007, 87-98.

“The Meaning and Measure of State Legitimacy: Results for 72 Countries”, European Journal of Political Research, March 2006, pp. 499-525.

“Elite-Led Democratization in China: Prospects, Perils, and Policy Implications”, International Journal, Spring 2006, pp. 341-358.

“The Determinants of State Legitimacy: Results for 72 Countries”, International Political Science Review, January 2006, pp. 47-71.

“Against the Concept of Ethnic Conflict”, Third World Quarterly, No. 6, 2004, pp. 1155- 1166.

"The End of Politics in Beijing", China Journal, January 2004, pp. 115-135.

3. Book Chapters “The East Asian Legitimacy Premium” in Melissa Williams, Joseph Chan, and Doh Shin (eds.), Political Legitimacy in East Asia: Bridging Normative and Empirical Analysis, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

“China’s Rise Through the Prism of Middle Powers” (with Andrew O’Neil) in Bruce Gilley and Andrew O’Neil (eds.), Middle Powers and the Rise of China, pp. 1-22, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014.

“Seeing Beyond Hegemony” (with Andrew O’Neil) in Bruce Gilley and Andrew O’Neil (eds.), Middle Powers and the Rise of China, pp. 237-258, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014.

“China’s Discovery of Middle Powers” in Bruce Gilley and Andrew O’Neil (eds.), Middle Powers and the Rise of China, pp. 45-62, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014.

“Comparing National Sustainability in China and India” in Huang Xiaoming (ed), China, India, and the End of Development Models?, pp. 218-232 (Palgrave, 2011)

“Deng Xiaoping and His Successors” in William Joseph (ed.), Politics in China, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 103-125. (2nd revised edition, 2014) 4

“Legitimacy”, in American Political Science Association (eds), International Encyclopedia of Political Science, Washington: CQ Press, 2010.

“Comparing and Rethinking Political Change in China and Taiwan” in Bruce Gilley and Larry Diamond (eds.), Political Change in China: Comparisons With Taiwan, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008, pp. 1-27.

“Taiwan’s Democratic Transition: A Model For China?” in Bruce Gilley and Larry Diamond (eds.), Political Change in China: Comparisons With Taiwan, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008, pp. 215-242.

“Two Passages to Modernity” in Bruce Gilley and Edward Friedman (eds.), Asia’s Giants: Comparing China and India, New York: Palgrave, 2005, pp.19-52.

“Political Legitimacy in Malaysia: Regime Performance in the Asian Context”, in Lynn White (ed), Legitimacy: Ambiguities of Political Success or Failure in East and Southeast Asia, Singapore: World Scientific, 2005, pp. 45-67.

“Rural Entrepreneurs and Democracy in China”, in Thomas Gold & Victoria Bonnell (eds.), The New Entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001, pp. 135-159.

4. Policy Articles

“The Minjung Millenarianism of Bandy X. Lee,” Academic Questions (Spring 2021)

“Taking Power in the Academy,” First Things (March 2020)

“30 Years After Tiananmen: The Young and the Restless,” Journal of Democracy (April 2019)

“Turkey, Middle Powers, and the New Humanitarianism”, Perceptions (Center for Strategic Research, Foreign Ministry of Turkey), Summer 2015

“The Use of Coercion to Prevent Climate Change”, Survival, February-March 2015 (with David Kinsella)

“Putting Legitimacy at the Center of Foreign Interventions and Assistance”, PRISM: Journal of the Center for Complex Operations (National Defense University), Spring 2014.

“China: The Fourth Wave?”, Current History, Fall 2011.

“The End of the African Renaissance”, Washington Quarterly, October 2010 , pp.87-101 5 “After Elections: The Role of Civil Society”, eJournalUSA, January 2010, pp.16-19.

“Not So Dire Straits: How the Finlandization of Taiwan Benefits U.S. Security”, Foreign Affairs, January/ February 2010, pp. 44-60.

“The Third Wave and Democratic Pessimism”, Journal of Democracy, January 2010, pp. 160-167.

“Is Democracy Possible?”, Journal of Democracy, January 2009, pp.113-127.

“Elegy for a Colonial Perspective”, Far Eastern Economic Review, December 2009, pp. 1-5.

“The Future of the CCP”, Current History, January 2007.

“Not Quite a Hero: Zhao Ziyang”, Far Eastern Economic Review ,2006.

“From Decay to Democracy”, Foreign Policy , 2006.

“The New Anti-Democrats”, Orbis, Spring 2006, pp. 259-271.

“Should We Try to Predict Transitions to Democracy?”, Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Spring 2005, pp.1-17.

"The Limits of Authoritarian Resilience", Journal of Democracy, January 2003.

“Jiang Zemin: On the Right Side of History?”, Current History, 1999.

Prizes and Awards Top 32 Research Scientists at Portland State Univeristy, Stanford-Elsevier Study of Research Impact, 2020 College of Urban and Public Affairs Dean’s Award for Scholarly Achievement – Senior Faculty, 2016 Frank Cass Prize, Best Article in Democratization, 2010 Marcel Cadieux Award, Best Article in International Journal, 2007 and 2012 Princeton University, East Asian Studies Prize, 2002 United Kingdom Commonwealth Scholarship, 1989-1991

Grants and Fellowships

Internal (PSU Only) (Selected) Hatfield Grant, Hatfield School of Government, $1,250 (2011) Faculty Enhancement Grant, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects $3,790 (2010) Professional Travel Grant, Center for Sustainable Practices and Processes: $1,650 (2010) Faculty Fellows for Community Partnerships, Center for Academic Excellence: $500 6 (2010)

External (Selected) Asia Institute, Griffith University, Conference Grant for “China and Middle Powers” Project Inaugural Conference, $35,000 (2012) Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Asia Research Program, Conference Grant for Edward Friedman festschrift: $17,000 (2009) Smith Richardson Foundation, International Security Program, Book writing grant for China’s Democratic Future: $25,000 (2002)

Internal Service (PSU) Founding Director, Master of Public Policy Program, 2012 – 2016 Member of MPP Program Committee (Since 2020) Director, Ph.D. Program in Public Affairs and Policy, 2012 – 2017 Faculty Advisor, Hatfield Graduate Journal of Public Affairs (Since 2015)

External Service National Association of Scholars, President of Oregon Chapter (Since 2016), Member of Board of Directors (Since 2019) Radio Free Asia: Mandarin Service Program Evaluator (Since 2005)

External Professional Service

Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Democracy (2007-2021) Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Contemporary China (Since 2010) Member of the Editorial Board, Local Administration Journal (Since 2019) Member of the Standing Review Board, Humanities and Social Sciences Panel, Research Grants Council, (Since 2012) Member of the Board of Evaluators, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS, Belgium (Since 2018) Member of the Scientific Evaluation Committee, National Science Center, Poland (Since 2019) National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Programs, U.S. History, Political Science, and Jurisprudence, Peer Review Panelist (Since 2021)

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