Professor
oushujun@ruc.edu.cnOu Shujun is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of International Studies, Renmin University, Beijing, P.R. China. He holds a Ph.D. in Government and Public Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, which he earned in 2009.
In 2010, Dr. Ou was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities at SUN YAT-SEN University. He also served as a Visiting Fellow at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University during the 2019-2020 school year.
Dr. Ou's research interests encompass various areas such as political economy, comparative politics, political theory, identification politics, and cyber politics. He has contributed to numerous publications, including The Infrastructure of State Infrastructural Capacity: Identification and State Building (published in Chinese by China Social Science Press in 2013) and Good Governance in a City State: State-building in Singapore (co-authored with Wang Shaoguang and published in Chinese by the Social Sciences Academic Press of China in 2017).
2006-2009 Ph.D., Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
2002-2005 LL.M., Jurisprudence, Peking University.
1996-2000 LL.B., Law, Shangdong Normal University.
Visiting Fellow, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, 2019-2020
Research Professor, Chinese Society of World Political Studies
Research Professor, the Center for Studies in Politics & Law of Peking University
Board of Editors, Politics and Law: China and World, Contemporary World Press (China)
Anonymous Reviewer, Modern China, Economic and Political Studies, Academic Monthly, CASS Journal of Political Science, China Politology, Open Times, The Jurist, Peking University Law Review, China Law Review, Economic Herald, and so on, 2011-present
Political Economy
Comparative Politics
Political Theory
Identification Politics
Cyber Politics
Good Governance in a City State: State-building in Singapore, with Wang Shaoguang (Social Sciences Academic Press of China, 2017) . (in Chinese)
Beyond Electocracy: Rethinking Democracy (Translated into Chinese, Peking University Press, 2014) (Proofread by Wang Shaoguang). (in Chinese)
The Basis of State Infrastructural Capacities (China Social Science Press, 2013).
Freedom, Authoritarianism, Pluralism: on Political Development in East Asia (Social Sciences Academic Press of China, 1st Edition 2011, Revised Edition 2015) (with Fang Ning and other scholars). (in Chinese)
Warren Court and American Politics, (Translated into Chinese, China University of Political Science and Law Press, 2005).
“The State as the institution: on Samuel P. Huntington’s Political Perspectives,”,Academic Monthly (September 2018). (in Chinese)
“Two Orientations of the State-Market Relationship,” China Politology (May 2018). (in Chinese)
“The Political Potential of Sortition,” Foreign Theoretical Trends (May 2018). (in Chinese)
“Reflecting on and Probing for Democracy,” Open Times (May 2015). (in Chinese)
“‘Visible Constitutionalism’: A Perspective on Understanding the Fiscal Power Configuration of China’s Constitution,” Peking University Law Journal (Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2014). (in English)
Principles of Political Science
Comparative Political Institution
Comparative Political Economy
Contemporary Western Political Thought
Major Issues in Political Science: China and the World
Seminar on Classical Political Thought