Da-chi Liao
Dr. Da-chi Liao is a professor in the Graduate Institute of Political Science at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She is a recent president of Taiwanese Political Science Association (2005-06) and is a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Since the early 1990s, Dr. Liao has been involved in the international project “Democracy and Local Governance,” which has been carried out over the course of the past 15 years in more than 26 countries.
Her other research interests include issues related to democratization, constitutional development and legislative institutions. She has chaired two three-year term projects funded by Taiwan’s National Science Council to study legislative and party politics and their relations to Taiwan’s democratization process. Dr. Liao also is utlizing a new research tool — data-mining — developed by information technologists, to uncover politics beneath the surface.
She has published approximately 40 refereed articles in journals such as Issues & Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Chinese Political Science Review, Taiwanese Political Science Review, Sun Yat-sen Journal of Social Sciences and Taiwan Journal of Democracy.
Liao earned her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan in 1990.