Bruce Gilley is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. His research centers on the politics and policy of conflict, the environment, democracy, and development. He is a specialist on the international and comparative politics of China and Asia.
Gilley is the author of four books, including The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy (Columbia University Press, 2009) and China’s Democratic Future: How it Will Happen and Where it Will Lead (Columbia University Press, 2004), in addition to several co-edited volumes. His scholarly articles have appeared in journals including Comparative Political Studies and the European Journal of Political Research and his policy articles in journals including Foreign Affairs and the Washington Quarterly. A member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Democracy and the Journal of Contemporary China, Gilley has received grants from the Smith-Richardson Foundation and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. He received a Master of Philosophy in Economics from Oxford University, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar from 1989 to 1991, and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar from 2004 to 2006.