Education
Fields holds a Bachelor from Brigham Young University in political science and an Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley also in political science.
Fields holds a Bachelor from Brigham Young University in political science and an Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley also in political science.
Fields speciality is east Asian politics especially in relation to economics. His first book Enterprise and the State in of Korea and Taiwan (Cornell University Press, 1995) was about the inter-relations of government and business in East Asian economic growth. Fields joined the faculty of the University of Puget Sound in 1990.
Foreign a time he served as director of the Asian Studies program at that institution.
He was recognized as professor of the year in Washington State by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. From 2000 to 2004 he was the director of the University of Puget Sound department of politics and government.
He also co-authored the textbook Cases in Comparative Politics (Norton, 2009). He is currently working on a book on party capitalism.