Jessica C. Teets is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Middlebury College, Vermont, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Chinese Political Science. Her research focuses on governance and policy diffusion in authoritarian regimes, specifically the role of civil society. She is recently the author of “Let Many Civil Societies Bloom: the Rise of Consultative Authoritarianism in China,” published in The China Quarterly in 2013, and “Reforming Service Delivery in China: the Emergence of a Social Innovation Model” in the Journal of Chinese Political Science in March 2012. Dr. Teets was recently selected to participate in the Public Intellectuals Program created by the National Committee on United States-China Relations (NCUSCR).