Hairong, Lai
Lai Hairong is Executive Director of the China Center for Overseas Social and Philosophical Theories at the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau. He studies political restructuring in China and has published works on Chinese governance in different languages. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Foreign Theoretical Trends and Executive Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Comparative Economic and Social Systems. Lai also served as Deputy Director of the China Center for Comparative Politics and Economics.
Stromseth, Jonathan R
Jonathan R. Stromseth serves on the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff at the US Department of State, where he advises the Department's leadership on China, Southeast Asia, and East Asian and Pacific affairs. The views expressed in this volume are his own and not necessarily those of the US government. Previously he was The Asia Foundation's Country Representative to China (2006–14) and Vietnam (2000–5), and is a three-time recipient of the Foundation's President's Award for Extraordinary Program Leadership. He has also conducted research as a Fulbright Scholar in Singapore, worked for the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Cambodia, and taught Southeast Asian politics at Columbia University, New York. He holds a doctorate in political science from Columbia and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Gueorguiev, Dimitar D
Dimitar Gueorguiev is an assistant professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York, where he teaches courses on Chinese politics, research methods, and foreign policy. Gueorguiev's work covers a wide range of topics concerning governance and public relations under quasi-democratic institutions. His work is primarily empirical, relying heavily on randomized public opinion surveys and original data on sub-national legislative and judicial activity. Outside of China, Gueorguiev's work focuses on elections, corruption and foreign investment, and has been published in the American Journal of Political Science and the Asian Journal of Economics.
Brinton, Carl
Carl Brinton is Horace W. Goldsmith Fellow at Harvard Business School, Massachusetts, and his work has focused on evaluating and improving governance and public policy through rigorous testing and scaling of successful programs. Brinton has conducted field and strategy work with local NGOs and sustainable development cooperatives in rural Guizhou Province. Additionally, the results of his randomized controlled trials of development interventions with Stanford University, California and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have been accepted by China's State Council and signed into policy action. He has presented research at international conferences around the world and his writing has been published in international development journals.
Wang, Xixin
Wang Xixin, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Peking University, Beijing, is one of China's preeminent authorities on administrative law. He has published more than thirty papers in major law journals in both China and the United States and established the Center for Public Participation Studies and Supports at Peking University and later, in collaboration with the Yale Law School's China Law Center, the Open Government Information Watch Alliance. He is a Research Consultant for the National People's Congres (NPC) Standing Committee General Office, and Vice Chairman of the Beijing Administrative Law Society, and was a core contributor to China's draft Administrative Procedure Act.
Malesky, Edmund J.
Edmund J. Malesky is a Professor of Political Economy at Duke University, North Carolina and is a noted specialist in economic development, authoritarian institutions, and comparative political economy in Vietnam and China. In 2012, Malesky received a state medal from the Government of Vietnam for his role in promoting economic development for the United States Agency for International Development's Vietnam Provincial Competitiveness Index and, in 2013, he was appointed by President Obama to serve on the board of the Vietnam Education Foundation. He has published extensively in leading political science and economic journals and has received various awards including the Harvard Academy Fellowship and the Rockefeller Bellagio Residency Fellowship.
