Chinese Local Governance:
Contemporary Innovation and Reform
Program
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Friday November 9
09.00—09.15 Opening remarks
Pierre Landy, Department of Political Science
James Cook, Asian Studies Center
Alberta Sbragia, Department of Political Science and Vice Provost for Graduate Studies
09.15—10.15
"Rightful Resistance Revisited,” address by Kevin O’BRIEN, Professor of Political Science, University of California Berkeley
10.15—10.30 Coffee/Tea Break
10.30—12.30 Panel F1
Paper: Jeremy WALLACE, Assistant Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University. Population and Politics: Local Variation in China’s Migration Policies. Discussant: Thomas RAWSKI, Professor of Economics and History, University of Pittsburgh.
Paper: Yuhua WANG, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania: Coercive Capacity and the Durability of the Chinese Authoritarian State. Discussant: Pierre F. LANDRY, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh.
12.30—13.15 Lunch break
13.15—15.30 Panel F2
Paper: Deborah DAVIS, Professor of Sociology, Yale University. Privileging some Private Preferences: SPC 2009-11 Interpretations of the Revised Marriage Law. Discussant: Neil DIAMANT, Associate Professor of Asian Law and Society, Dickinson College.
Paper: Neil J. DIAMANT, Associate Professor of Asian Law and Society, Dickinson College. Discussant: Bruce DICKSON, George Washington University.
15.30—15.45 Coffee/Tea Break
15.45—17.00 Panel F3
Paper: Yeling TAN, Ph.D. Program in Public Policy, Harvard University. TRANSPARENCY WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS: The Role of State, Enterprise and Society in China’s Environmental Governance. Discussant: James COOK, Associate Director, Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh.
Paper: Xiaobo LU, Assistant Professor, Bush School of Government & Public Service, Texas A&M University & Pierre F. LANDRY, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh. Show me the Money: Inter-Jurisdiction Political Competition and Fiscal Extraction in China. Discussant: Yuhua WANG, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Saturday November 10
09.00—10.45 Panel S1
Paper: Yuen Yuen ANG, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan. Perverse Complementarity: Political Connections & Use of Courts among Chinese Firms. Discussant: John KENNEDY, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Kansas.
Paper: Pierre F. LANDRY, University of Pittsburgh & Peter LORENTZEN, Assistant Professor, University of California Berkeley. Impeding Authoritarian Transparency: How China’s industrial giants hold back institutional reform. Discussant: John KENNEDY, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Kansas.
10.45—11.00 Coffee/Tea Break
11.00—12.30 Panel S2
Paper: SHI Yaojiang (史耀疆), Professor at the School of Economic Management and Director of the Northwest Socioeconomic Development Research Center, Northwest University (西北社会经济发展研究中心主任，西北大学经济管理学院教授): Dormitory Management and Boarding Students in China’s Rural Elementary Schools. Discussant: Tina PHILLIPS JOHNSON, Associate Professor of History, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA.
12.30—13.30 Lunch break
13.30—15.30 Panel S3
Paper: John KENNEDY, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Kansas. Out of the Shadows: Identifying “Missing Girls” in Shaanxi Province-- Where Local Incentives have National Consequences. Discussant: Pierre LANDRY, Political Science, University of Pittsburgh.
Paper: Bruce DICKSON, George Washington University & SHEN Mingming (沈明明) Professor, School of Government and Director of the Research Center for Contemporary China, Peking University. Generating Popular Support in China: The Material, Moral, and Institutional Bases for Regime Survival. Discussant: Xiaobo LU, Assistant Professor, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.
15.30—15.45 Break
15.45—17.00 Address: Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Followed by concluding reflections from participants and audience.
This conference is made possible by the contributions of the University Center for International Studies, the Asian Studies Center, and the China Council of the University of Pittsburgh.
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