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Mary E. Gallagher

Assistant Professor
Faculty Associate, Center for Chinese Studies
Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies
Ph.D., Princeton

7634 Haven Hall
(734) 615-9154
metg@umich.edu
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Professor Gallagher studies Chinese politics, law and society, and comparative politics. She is currently working on two projects. The first, funded by a Fulbright Research Award and the National Science Foundation, examines the development of rule of law in China by examining the dynamics of legal mobilization of Chinese workers. “The Rule of Law in China: If They Build It, Who Will Come?” focuses on the demand-side of rule of law through an exploration of legal aid plaintiffs in Shanghai, a four-city household survey on legal knowledge, attitude, and practice, and in-depth case analysis of labor disputes. The second project examines labor standards and practices in four Chinese regions. One goal is to find if there are diffusion effects in legislation, court behavior, and labor practices across different regions. Another goal is to look for evidence of a “race to the bottom” in labor standards and social welfare not between China and other competing economies, but within China’s own domestic economy.

Selected Publications

  • Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China. Princeton University Press, 2005.
  • “China in 2004: Stability Above All,” Asian Survey 45:1 (January 2005): 21-32.
  • “Use the Law as Your Weapon!' Institutional Change and Legal Mobilization in China,” in Engaging Chinese Law, Neil Diamant, Stanley Lubman, Kevin O'Brien, eds. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005).
  • “The Limits of Civil Society in a Late Leninist State,” in Civil Society and Political Change in Asia, Muthiah Alagappa, ed. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005).
  • “Time is Money, Efficiency is Life: The Transformation of Labor Relations in China,” Studies in Comparative International Development (Summer 2004).
  • “Reform and Openness: Why Chinese Economic Reforms Have Delayed Democracy,” World Politics. (April 2002).
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