Background
O'Brien, Kevin Joseph was born on October 11, 1957 in Staten Island, New York, United States. Son of Joseph Albert and Dolores Ann O'Brien.
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(Since its founding in 1954, the National People's Congres...)
Since its founding in 1954, the National People's Congress of China (NPC) has followed a difficult course of development, a course which has been characterized by periods of limited progress intermingled with periods of stagnation and regression. Political campaigns from the Anti-Rightist Movement (1957-1958) to the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) to the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) frustrated the establishment of any consistent policy concerning the appropriate role of the legislature within the one-party, Maoist regime. Mao's death in 1976, however, ushered in a new era of political reform which has included the strengthening of the NPC. In this first detailed study of the NPC, Kevin O'Brien examines how the NPC has changed from its founding under Mao through the regime of Deng Xiaoping. He describes the various functions it has served, from the management of intra-elite relations; to the incorporation, and co-optation, of criticisms of regime policies into regime debates; to legislation and supervision of government agencies. The author concludes that although the NPC has not moved toward liberalization, meaning movement toward political autonomy and direct representation of citizen interests, increased legislative involvement in lawmaking, oversight and regime support indicates that the NPC is developing an expanded, more powerful role in the political system.
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O'Brien, Kevin Joseph was born on October 11, 1957 in Staten Island, New York, United States. Son of Joseph Albert and Dolores Ann O'Brien.
Bachelor, Grinnell College, Iowa, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1987.
Lecturer Northeast Forestry Institute, Harbin, China, 1983—1984. Assistant professor Ohio State University, Columbus, 1987—1993, associate professor, 1993—2000. Professor political science University California, Berkeley, since 2000.
Board directors National Committee on United States-China Relations, New York City, 1998—2001, since 2002.
(Since its founding in 1954, the National People's Congres...)
Member of Association Asian Studies.
Married Betsy Jean Hale, June 21, 1986. 1 child Molly Channing.