Mark R. Thompson

Mark R. Thompson is an American political scientist who mainly studies about Southeast Asian politics. He is currently the professor of politics at the City University of Hong Kong.^[1] Earlier he taught at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and at Glasgow University in Scotland, United Kingdom. He is also the director of Southeast Asia Research Centre (SEARC) in the City University of Hong Kong.

Education

Thompson grew up as a Chicago native. He has a B.A. in religious studies from Brown University. He did his postgraduate work at Cambridge University (B.A. and M.A.) and Yale University (M.A.and Ph.D. in political science, 1991).^[1]

Academic career

He taught in various universities in Germany for nearly two decades since 1990s, including University of Münster, the Federal Army University (Bundeswehr Universität) Munich, the Dresden University of Technology (Technische Universität Dresden), and the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He taught in the politics department at the University of Glasgow in Scotland from 1995 to 1997. Now he is teaching at City University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China.

Academic work

Thompson started his career as specialist on Philippines politics. He also works on politics in various Southeast Asia countries. In the 1990s he worked on Eastern Europe, former East Germany in particular. His research is currently focused on politics and development in various Southeast Asia countries.

Partial bibliography

• The Anti-Marcos Struggle. Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-300-06243-5.
• Democratic Revolutions: Asia and Eastern Europe, London: Routledge, 2004, ISBN 978-0-415-40682-6.
• Frauen an der Macht. Dynastien und politische Führerinnen in Asien, Passau: Univ. Passau, 2005, ISBN 3-933509-29-7.
• Politik in Japan: System, Reformprozesse und Aussenpolitik in internationaler Vergleich (Politics in Japan: System, Reform Processes and Foreign Policy in International Comparative Perspective) (Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2006), ISBN 3593379988.
• Kurer, Oskar, and Mark R. Thompson, eds. Transformationen im asiatisch-pazifischen Raum: Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft: Buch & Media; Auflage, 2007, ISBN 978-3865202529.
• Dynasties, Daughters and Democrats. Female Political Leaders in Asia (Hamburg; Lit, 2013), ISBN 9783643903204.
• “Populism and the Revival of Reform: Competing Narratives in the Philippines,” Contemporary Southeast Asia, 31, no. 1 (2010), pp. 1–28.
• “Japan’s German Path and Pacific Asia’s Flying Geese,” Asian Journal of Social Science, 38, no. 5 (2010), pp. 697–715.
• (with Philipp Kuntz) “More than the Final Straw: Stolen Elections as Revolutionary Triggers,” Comparative Politics, 41, no. 3 (April 2009), pp. 253–272.) (Munich: Allitera, 2007).
• “Whatever Happened to 'Asian Values'?” Journal of Democracy, 12, no. 4 (October 2001), pp. 154–165.
• “Late Industrialisers, Late Democratisers: Developmental States in the Asia-Pacific,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 4 (December 1996), pp. 625–647.
• "Why and How East Germans Rebelled,” Theory and Society, vol. 25, no. 2 (April 1996), pp. 263–299.

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