Mark W. Frazier is an Associate Professor of Government at Lawrence University, a liberal arts college in Wisconsin. His research examines the origins of labor and social policies and popular responses to them. He was a 2004-05 Fulbright Research Fellow based in Beijing and Shanghai, where he conducted social surveys and interviews on how citizens and officials have responded to pension reforms.
Frazier has authored two articles on local governments and pension administration in Studies in Comparative International Development (Summer 2004) and the The China Journal (January 2004). He is also the author of The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace: State, Revolution, and Labor Management (Cambridge University Press, 2002), which explores labor practices in state-owned enterprises before and after the 1949 revolution.
He received his Ph.D. in political science in 1997 from the University of California, Berkeley. Frazier’s interest in policy and politics stems in part from his work in the late 1980s as a staff writer for Roll Call, for which he covered lobbying and labor practices in Congress. He served as Research Director at The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) for three years beginning in 1996, and is now a senior advisor to NBR.