Prof. Baogang He

Baogang He (Ph.D, ANU 1994) is Alfred Deakin Professor at Deakin University, and the Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Professor He is widely known for his work in Chinese politics, in particular the deliberative politics in China as well as in regionalism, international relations, federalism, and multiculturalism in Asia. His publications are found in top journals including Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Peace Research, Political Theory, Political Studies, and Perspectives on Politics. His two papers (“Authoritarian Deliberation: The Deliberative Turn in Chinese Political Development,” co-authored with Mark Warren, and “The Domestic Politics of the Belt and Road Initiative and its Implications”) are on the top 1% of the highly cited research papers in the Web of Sciences as of 11 Feb 2021. His published books include The Democratisation of China, The Democratic Implications of Civil Society in China, Rural Democracy in China, and Governing Taiwan and Tibet. His recent co-authored books include China’s Galaxy Empire: Wealth, Power, War and Peace in the New Chinese Century, John Keane and Baogang He (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), Comparative Federalism in Asia (Baogang He, Michael Breen and Laura Reumann, Routledge, June 2023). His recent edited books include Australia in World Affairs, 2016–2020: A Return to Great-Power Rivalry, editors: Baogang He, David Hundt, and Danielle Chubb, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, Deliberative Democracy in Asia, (editors Baogang He, Michael Breen and James Fishkin), Routledge in 2021, and China and North Korea’s Human Rights (editors Baogang He, David Hundt, Chengxin Pan), Routledge, 2021. Professor He has co-translated John Rawls's A Theory of Justice into Chinese (the Chinese translation published in 1988, with He Huanghong and Liao Shenbai).