Short Curriculum Vitae
Christian Göbel
Education
04/2003 – 05/2008
04/1998 – 06/2002
03/1996 – 06/1997
10/1993 – 10/1995
PhD in Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen
M.A. in Political Science and Modern China Studies, Heidelberg
University
Mandarin Chinese Language Program, National Taiwan Normal University
BA Two-Subject Degree in Education, Erlangen University
Academic Appointments
Since 02/2013
08/2012 – 02/2013
04/2012 - 08/2012
10/2011 - 04/2012
10/2009 - 03/2012
04/2009 - 09/2009
04/2003 - 09/2008
09/2000 - 02/2001
Professor of Contemporary China Studies, University of Vienna
Assistant Professor for the Economy and Society of China, Heidelberg
University
Senior Lecturer of Political Science, Lund University
Academic leave of absence at Lund University. Visiting Professor for East
Asian Politics, University of Duisburg-Essen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Asian Studies, Lund University
Academic leave of absence at the University of Duisburg Essen. Visiting
Assistant Professor for the Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University
Lecturer of Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen
Visiting Fellow, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University
Grants (selection) Ongoing grants marked with an asterisk*
”The Microfoundations of Authoritarian Responsiveness.” European Research Council
Starting Grant (2016-2021)
Social unrest is on the rise in China, but the CCP apparently enjoys the consent of the majority of
its people. How can extraordinary high rates of public support be maintained in a country where
income inequality is so extreme? We believe that the answer to this question lies in the
responsiveness of China’s authoritarian one-party regime to popular demands and grievances, a
capability that has so far been attributed only to democratic regimes. The project, which is
funded by the European Research Council, sheds light on the intended and unintended
consequences of enhanced e-participation in China.
* ”Digital China” (7 researchers, project leader: Marina Svensson). Swedish Science Council,
2013-2017
* ”Local change agents and public policy innovation in rural China.” Vetenskapsrådet
(Swedish Science Council), 2012-2016
 Faculty Research Grant for Taiwan Studies, Cultural Division, Taipei Mission in Sweden, one
month field research, 2010
 Research Scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Foundation (DAAD) to conduct 18
weeks of fieldwork in China (07/2004 - 10/2004 and 02/2006 – 04/2006)
 Merit-based one-term scholarship for studying the Chinese language in Taiwan by the Ministry of
Education, Republic of China (1996)
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Professional Service
Reviewer, American Journal of Political Science, Governance, Government Information Quarterly,
Publius, Democratization, Modern China, The China Journal, The China Quarterly, Journal of
Contemporary China, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Asian Ethnicity and Oxford University
Press
Selected publications
Göbel, C. The Politics of Rural Reform in China: State Policy and Village Predicament in the Early
2000s, Abingdon/New York: Routledge 2010
Heberer, T. and Christian Göbel, The Politics of Community Building in Urban China, Abingdon/New
York: Routledge 2011
Göbel, C. Taiwan’s Fight Against Corruption. Journal of Democracy, 27 (1), 2016, pp. 124-138
Göbel, C. Why does China Have Internet? Contagion, contingency and strategy in China’s ICT
management, Comparativ, (forthcoming, 2016)
Göbel, C. and Chen, Xuelian. Regulating Against Revolution. Mapping Policy Innovations in China,
Journal of Chinese Governance, Inaugural Issue, (forthcoming, 2016)
Göbel, C., Regime Building after Tian’anmen: Fine-tuning Indoctrination, Cooptation, and
Repression, in: Backes, Uwe/Kailitz, Steffen (eds.): Ideocracies in Comparison, London:
Routledge, 2015, pp. 198-220.
Göbel, C., Let’s not Go There: Coping with (Pre-)Selection Bias in Collaborative Field Research,
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 2/2014, pp. 87-106
Göbel, C., The Information Dilemma: How ICT Strengthen or Weaken Authoritarian Rule,
Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 115, 2013, pp. 367-384
Göbel, C., Warriors Unchained: Critical Junctures and Anticorruption in Taiwan and South Korea,
Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 7, 2013, pp. 219-242
Kuang, X. and C. Göbel, Sustaining Collective Action in Urbanizing China, The China Quarterly 216,
2013, pp. 850-871
Göbel, C., The Innovation Dilemma and the Consolidation of Autocracy (in German), Politische
Vierteljahresschrift (PVS), Special Issue 47 (2012), pp. 132-156
Göbel, C., The Impact of Electoral System Reform on Taiwan’s Local Factions, Journal of Current
Chinese Affairs, 41 (3), 2012, pp. 69-92.
Göbel, C., Legitimation, Kooptation und Repression in der Volksrepublik China, Totalitarismus &
Demokratie 9 (1), 2012, pp. 149-170
Göbel, C., Uneven Policy Implementation in Rural China, The China Journal 65, 2011, pp. 53-76
Göbel, C., Authoritarian Consolidation, European Political Science 10, 2011, pp. 176-90
Göbel, C., Measuring and Explaining the Distributive Effects of the Rural Tax and Fee Reform in
Anhui Province, China, China Perspectives 2008/02, pp. 58-79
Göbel, C., Beheading the Hydra: Combating Political Corruption and Organized Crime in the KMT
and DPP Eras, China Perspectives No. 56, 2004, pp. 14-25
Göbel, C., Government Propaganda and the Organization of Rural China, in: Bislev, Ane und Stig
Thøgersen (Hrg.): Organizing Rural China. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield 2012, S. 51-68
Göbel, C., Paving the Road to New Socialist Countryside: China’s Rural Tax and Fee Reform, in:
Alpermann, Björn (Hrsg.): Markets and Politics in Rural China, Abingdon/New York:
Routledge 2011, S. 155-71
Göbel, C., Warriors in Chains: Institutional Legacies and Anti-Corruption Programs in Taiwan and
South Korea, in: Lamour, Peter und Luís de Sousa (Hrsg.): The New Integrity Warriors: The
Vices and Virtues of Governmental and Non-governmental Anti-corruption, London/New
York: Routledge 2008, S. 178-212
Göbel, C., The Peasant’s Rescue from the Cadre? – An Institutional Analysis of China’s Rural Tax
and Fee Reforms, in: Heberer, Thomas und Gunter Schubert (Hrsg.): Institutional Change
and Political Continuity in Contemporary China, London/New York: Routledge 2008, S. 3554