Fu Hu, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University

Fu Hu is now a professor emeritus at the Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University. He received his law degree from the National Taiwan University and M. A. in political science from Emory University. He has visited Yale University, University of Chicago, and Columbia University as a research fellow or a visiting scholar. He has taught at National Taiwan University since 1961. He was named the first Chen-Tong Lien Chair Professor in law and political science in 1991 and the first University Chair Professor in 1998. He was also elected as academician of the Academia Sinica, R. O. C. in 1998 and awarded as National Chair by the Ministry of Education, R. O. C. in 1999 for his outstanding scholarship. Professor Hu was a pioneering scholar who promoted and engaged in the empirical study of politics at a very early time in his country. He has been interested in and concentrated on the study of political systems and behavior with special reference to the theories and problems related to political culture, political participation, electoral behavior, democratization, and the development of constitutionalism. His research team has carried out more than ten major research projects and produced numerous empirical data and voluminous writings. He is the author of thirteen books (including The Control Yuan of the Republic of China, 3 vol., with others, Political Life and Political Culture, Political Participation and Electoral Behavior, Political Change and Democratization, Political Ethos and the Constitutional System of the Republic of China, with others; all in Chinese) and more than one hundred academic articles. He is co-director of the project The Comparative Study of Democratization and Value Changes in East Asia and co-convener of the East Asian Barometer Conference.