Political Economy Workshop: William Hurst
Associate Professor of Political Science Northwestern University
Sponsored by:
Center for Public Policy Research
Department of Political Science
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About the Speaker
William Hurst works on labor politics, contentious politics, political economy, and the politics of law and legal institutions, principally in China and Indonesia. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the comparative politics of law and legal institutions in China and Indonesia since 1949. His books include Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance (co-edited with Jessica C. Teets, Routledge, 2014), The Chinese Worker after Socialism (Cambridge University Press, 2009 (paperback 2012), Laid-off Workers in a Workers’ State: Unemployment with Chinese Characteristics (co-edited with Thomas Gold, Jaeyoun Won, and Qiang Li, Palgrave, 2009).
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Open to the public
