Thomas Paul Bernstein (born April 11, 1937) is an American political scientist and specialist in the Chinese political economy and communist systems. He is an emeritus professor at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

Biography

Bernstein earned his Ph.D. from

and joined the Columbia faculty in 1975. Bernstein has written about the

collectivization of agriculture Collective farming and communal farming are various types of "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise". There are two broad types of communal farms: agricultural cooperatives, in which member-o ...

in the Soviet Union and China, state-peasant relations, economic growth during China's

reform and opening Reform and opening-up ( zh, s=改革开放, p=Gǎigé kāifàng), also known as the Chinese economic reform or Chinese economic miracle, refers to a variety of economic reforms termed socialism with Chinese characteristics and socialist market ...

period, and

Sino-Soviet relations Sino-Soviet relations (; , ''sovetsko-kitayskiye otnosheniya''), or China–Soviet Union relations, refers to the diplomatic relationship between China (both the Chinese Republic of 1912–1949 and its successor, the People's Republic of China) ...

. He served as two-time chairman of Columbia's department of political science and retired from teaching in 2007. Bernstein received a 1981

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bernstein, Thomas P. Living people Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Columbia University faculty American political scientists 1937 births