Publications
- Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung’s The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
- Elizabeth Economy on Her Book The World According to China
- Kristen E. Looney’s Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia
Jessica C. Teets
Middlebury College
Professor
Jessica C. Teets is a member of the Board of Advisors at the National Bureau of Asian Research.
Dr. Teets is a Professor at Middlebury College, and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Political Science.
Her research focuses on governance in authoritarian regimes, especially the role of civic participation. She is the author of Civil Society Under Authoritarianism: The China Model (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and editor (with William Hurst) of Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance (Routledge Contemporary China Series, 2014), in addition to articles published in The China Quarterly, World Politics, Governance, and the Journal of Contemporary China. Dr. Teets is currently working on a new book manuscript (with Dr. Xiang Gao) on changing governance under Xi Jinping, and a forthcoming edited volume (with University of Michigan Press) developing a theory of how to lobby dictators (with Dr. Max Grömping).