Professor John Fuh-sheng Hsieh
Ph.D., University of Rochester (1982)
E-Mail: Hsieh@sc.edu

John Fuh-sheng Hsieh received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Rochester in 1982.  Before moving to the University of South Carolina (USC) on January 1, 1999, he taught at National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taipei, Taiwan.  At NCCU, he had served as chief secretary of the Institute of International Relations, acting director of the Election Study Center, and chairman of the Department of Political Science.  Currently at the USC, he is Professor at the Department of Government and International Studies and director of the Center for Asian Studies.   

He has been active in scholarly activities.  He had served as secretary-general of the Chinese Association of Political Science (Taipei), chairman of the Comparative Representation and Electoral Systems Research Committee in the International Political Science Association, and coordinator of the Conference Group on Taiwan Studies in the American Political Science Association. 

His teaching and research interests include rational choice theory, constitutional choice, electoral systems, electoral behavior, political parties, democratization, foreign policy, and East Asian politics.  He is the author or co-author of A Comparative Study of Referendums [in Chinese], Party-List Proportional Representation [in Chinese], Popular Will, Checks and Balances, and Efficiency: On the Values of Democracy [in Chinese], On the Participation of Interest Groups in the Political Process [in Chinese].  He is also the co-editor of The Scope and Methods of Political Science [in Chinese] and How Asia Votes.  His works appeared as chapters in many books and in such journals as International Political Science Review, Party Politics, Electoral Studies, Public Choice, Representation, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, China Quarterly, Journal of Asian and African Studies, American Asian Review, Issues & Studies, and Chinese Political Science Review.