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 Scott
Kennedy
Associate Professor, EALC
& Political Science
PhD, George Washington University, 2002
kennedys@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 205
(812) 856-0105
Professor Kennedy's home page
Research Interests
- Political economy
- Contemporary Chinese and East Asian politics
- U.S.-Chinese relations
Courses Recently Taught
- EALC E204, Government and Business in East Asia
- EALC E386, U.S.-East Asian Relations
- EALC E390, Contemporary Chinese Politics
- EALC E392, Chinese Foreign Policy
- EALC E393, China's Political Economy
- EALC E593, Political Economy of East Asia
- EALC E600, Issues in Chinese Politics
Conference Events
Capitalism
with Chinese Characteristics, May 2006.
Awards and Distinctions
- Indiana University, Summer Faculty Fellowship ($8,000)
for book project (Summer 2006)
- Indiana University, multiple units, funding ($37,000) for
conference on capitalism in China (Spring 2006)
- Brookings Institution, Research Fellowship (1999-2000)
- George Washington University, Shapiro Traveling Fellowship
(1998-1999)
Publication Highlights
- The Business of Lobbying in China (Harvard University
Press, 2005).
- China Cross Talk: The American Debate Over China Policy Since
Normalization, A Reader (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
- "China’s Emerging Credit Rating Industry: The Official
Foundations of Private Authority," The China Quarterly
(forthcoming June 2008).
- “Transnational Political Alliances: An Exploration with Evidence
from China," Business & Society, Vol. 46, No. 1 (March 2007).
- "The Political Economy of Standards Coalitions: Explaining
China’s Involvement in High-Tech Standards Wars," Asia Policy,
No. 2 (July 2006), pp. 41-62.
- "China’s Porous Protectionism: The Changing Political Economy of
Trade Policy," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 120, No. 3
(Fall 2005), pp. 407-432.
- "The Price of Competition: Pricing Policies and the Struggle to
Define China's Economic System," China Journal, No. 49
(January 2003), pp. 1-32.
curriculum vitae
My interest in East Asia comes from two sources; the first is my interest
in world affairs in general, and the second is my family’s experience
in the region. My grandmother was stationed in Macau for the Christian
Science Monitor in the early 1970s, and my uncle has lived in Japan for
most of the past 40 years. Further prompted by my grandfather, an engineer
who had traveled to Asia, I tried a Chinese language course my second
year in college. But it was a semester in Beijing in 1988 – meeting average
Chinese, riding on trains, and bicycling down Changan Avenue through Tiananmen
Square – that sealed my fate as someone who wanted to make China a part
of my career.Since then, my research interests have focused in on two
areas, both of which cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. The first
is political economy. My dissertation, which I am currently revising into
a book, examined to what extent economic factors affect the ways in which
companies lobby the government and if that in turn shapes which companies
have the greatest influence over public policy. My favorite part of the
project were the interviews, an exhilarating experience and an invaluable
tool given the potential weaknesses of macro quantitative data in China.
I am also quite interested in questions of foreign policy and US-East
Asian relations. I recently edited a book, entitled China Cross Talk,
on the American debate over China policy since normalization. My interest
in US-East Asian relations derives partly from my time at the Brookings
Institution, a think tank in Washington, DC, where I learned that it is
important for scholars not only to carry on a dialogue with each other
but also to speak to audiences beyond academia in the public policy arena,
the business community, and the broader public. |
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