Manion’s research focuses on authoritarian governance, with empirical work on bureaucracy, corruption, information and political representation in China. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Prior to joining Duke in 2015, Manion was a Vilas-Jordan Distinguished Achievement professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She served on the political science faculty of the University of Rochester from 1989 to 2000.
Publications
Articles
Authoritarian Parochialism: Local Congressional Representation in China, China Quarterly, June 17, 2014
When Communist Party Candidates Can Lose, Who Wins? Assessing the Role of Local People's Congresses in the Selection of Leaders in China, China Quarterly, September 22, 2008
The Cadre Management System, Post-Mao: The Appointment, Promotion, Transfer and Removal of Party and State Leaders.” China Quarterly, no. 102: 203–233, 1985
“Reluctant Duelists: The Logic of the 1989 Protests and Massacre.” In Beijing Spring, 1989: Confrontation and Conflict. The Basic Documents, ed. Michel Oksenberg, Lawrence R. Sullivan, and Marc Lambert, xiii–xlii. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe., 1990
Retirement of Revolutionaries in China: Public Policies, Social Norms, Private Interests. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993
Survey Research in the Study of Contemporary China: Learning from Local Samples. China Quarterly, no. 139: 741–765. 1994
Corruption by Design: Bribery in Chinese Enterprise Licensing. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 12, no. 1: 167–195. 1996
Issues in Corruption Control in Post-Mao China. Issues and Studies, 34, no. 9: 1–21. 1998