John Donaldson

Dr John Donaldson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University (SMU). He researches on politics, rural development and poverty in China and elsewhere, having conducted extensive fieldwork in rural India and Thailand, as well as in Singapore. John Donaldson is the author of Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China (Cornell University Press, 2011). His research has also been published in such journals as World Development, Journal of Development Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Politics and Society, China Journal, China Quarterly and Journal of Contemporary Asia.

Qualifications

• PhD Political Science, The George Washington University, 2005
• BA Chinese Language and Literature and Psychology, Washington University, 1991

Research Interests

• Politics in developing countries
• Poverty
• Chinese politics
• Agrarian political economy
• Decentralization and Local Politics

Course(s) Taught in SMU

• Development, Underdevelopment & Poverty
• Public Policy Task Force
• Political Economy of East Asia