17th Annual SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET LECTURE ON DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD: Totalitarianism's Long Dark Shadow Over China

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Dr. Minxin Pei is the Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. He is also a non-resident senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy and as editor-in-chief of the China Leadership Monitor. Prior to joining Claremont McKenna in 2009, Dr. Pei was a senior associate and the director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

A renowned scholar of democratization in developing countries, economic reform and governance in China, and U.S.-China relations, he is the author of From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 1994), China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (Harvard University Press, 2006), and China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay (Harvard University Press, 2016). His research has been published in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Modern China, China Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, and in numerous edited volumes.

Dr. Pei’s op-eds have appeared in the Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek International, and other major newspapers. Dr. Pei received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. He is a recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships, including the National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the McNamara Fellowship at the World Bank, and the Olin Faculty Fellowship of the Olin Foundation.