Susan H. Whiting

Professor
Susan Whiting

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GOWEN 147
Office Hours
Tuesdays 3:30pm-4:30pm

Biography

Curriculum Vitae (342.78 KB)

Susan Whiting (Ph.D., Michigan; B.A., Yale) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she also holds adjunct appointments in the Jackson School of International Studies and the School of Law. She specializes in Chinese and comparative politics, with an emphasis on the political economy of development. Her first book, Power and Wealth in Rural China: The Political Economy of Institutional Change, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2001. She has published articles and chapters on authoritarianism, “rule of law,” property rights, fiscal reform, and rural development in volumes and journals such as Comparative Political Studies and China Quarterly. She has contributed to studies of governance, fiscal reform, and non-governmental organizations under the auspices of the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the Ford Foundation, respectively. Her current research interests include property rights in land, the role of law in authoritarian regimes, as well as the politics of fiscal reform. She teaches courses on comparative politics, Chinese politics, property rights, and authoritarian regimes.

Selected Research

Winter 2026

Autumn 2025

Spring 2024

Autumn 2023

Spring 2023

Autumn 2022

Spring 2022

Autumn 2021

Spring 2021

Winter 2021

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