Research Area(s)
China

Nara Dillon

Years in Fellowship:
2001-2002
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Nara Dillon received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation is on "Revolutionary Welfare in Modern Shanghai," which explains how and why the workplace replaced private charities as the dominant provider of welfare benefits in urban China. She has co-authored with Marcia K. Meyers, "Institutional Paradoxes: Why Welfare Workers Cannot Reform Welfare," in Public Management Reform and Innovation: Research, Theory, and Application (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1999).

Nara  Dillon