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Dr. Gang Guo

Croft Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Mississippi
128 Deupree Hall, University, Mississippi 38677-1848
Telephone: 662 915-5419 Fax: 662 915-7808 E-mail: gg at olemiss dot edu

Education

• Ph.D., University of Rochester, Political Science, 2002-10-11

  Dissertation: "Party Recruitment and Political Participation in Mainland China"

• M.A., University of Rochester, Political Science, 2001-03-01
• LL.B., Institute of International Relations, Beijing, China, International Politics, 1997-07-01

  Thesis: "The Korean War's Impact on U.S. Policy toward the Far East"

Sole-Author Articles in Refereed Journals since 2005

• "China's Local Political Budget Cycles." American Journal of Political Science, Volume 53, Number 3, July 2009, Pages 620-631.
• "Vertical Imbalance and Local Fiscal Discipline in China." Journal of East Asian Studies, Volume 8, Number 1, January-April 2008, Pages 61-88.
• "Retrospective Economic Accountability Under Authoritarianism: Evidence from China." Political Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Number 3, September 2007, Pages 378-390.
• "Persistent Inequalities in Funding for Rural Schooling in Contemporary China." Asian Survey, Volume 47, Issue 2 (March/April), 2007, Pages 213-230.
• "Organizational Involvement and Political Participation in China." Comparative Political Studies, Volume 40, Number 4, April 2007, Pages 457-482.
• "Decentralized Education Spending and Regional Disparities: Evidence from Chinese Counties 1997-2001." Journal of Chinese Political Science, Volume 11, Issue 2, Fall 2006, Pages 45-60.
• "Party Recruitment of College Students in China." Journal of Contemporary China, Volume 14, Number 43, May 2005, Pages 371-393.

Academic Experience

• Croft Associate Professor, the University of Mississippi, July 2008 to present.
• CCKF Visiting Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC, June 2008 to July 2008.
• Croft Assistant Professor, the University of Mississippi, August 2002 to June 2008.

  Courses taught: Introduction to Comparative Politics, Asia in World Affairs, Political Economy of East Asia, Politics of China, Seminar in Comparative Parties and Elections, East Asian Studies, China through the Media

• Trainee, Harvard University

  National Science Foundation summer institute on Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM), 2002.

• Thesis Supervisor, University of Rochester

  Kharis Templeman's Senior Honors Project thesis, 2001 - 2002.

• Research Assistant for Professor Curtis Signorino

  Lead programmer of STRAT, a program for analyzing statistical strategic models, 2000 - 2002.

• Research Assistant for Professor Melanie Manion

  Summers 1998 - 2000.

Complete curriculum vita