An Chen (PhD, Yale University) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore and a former Senior Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is the author of Restructuring Political Power in China: Alliances and Opposition, 1978 1998 (1999). His recent publications have appeared in Politics and Society, Political Science Quarterly, Modern Asian Studies, China Quarterly, Modern China, Democratization, the Journal of Democracy, and the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.