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The Department of Government and Politics

The Department of Government & Politics
University of Maryland  
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College Park, MD 20742


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  • Ph. D., Yale University, 1986
  • M.Phil., Yale University, 1983
  • M.A., Yale University, 1982
  • A.B., Smith College, 1980

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  • Margaret M. Pearson is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 1987. She taught at Dartmouth College from 1987 to 1995, and was promoted with tenure in 1994. Her publications include the books Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China (Princeton Press, 1991) and China's New Business Elite: The Political Results of Economic Reform (University of California Press, 1997), as well as articles in The China Journal, Modern China, China Business Review, and other journals. Her current research interests include the evolution of China’s regulatory state, and China's participation in the WTO. She teaches courses on Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy, on East Asian politics, and on comparative politics.  She held a Fulbright Research Fellowship at Beijing University for the Fall of 2002, at which time she conducted research on these issues.

Recent Publications (articles & book chapters)

  •  "The Case of China's Accession to GATT/WTO." Chapter in The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, edited by David M. Lampton (Stanford University Press, 2001).
  • "Entrepreneurs and Democratization in China." Chapter in The New Entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia, edited by Victoria Bonnell and Thomas Gold (M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming 2001).
  • "China's Track Record in the Global Economy," China Business Review (January-February, 2000): 48-53.
  • "Bringing China iInto the International Economic Regime," Chapter in Engaging China, edited by Alistair Iain Johnston and Robert Ross (Routledge, 1999).
  • "China's Integration into the International Trade and Investment Regime." Chapter in China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects, edited by Michel Oksenberg and Elizabeth Economy (Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1999): 177-221.

 


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