Welcome to the Department of Political Science 政治學系

Professor Brian Bridges
Head of Department

Welcome to the new Department of Political Science at Lingnan University. This Department was created in August 2007, when the former Department of Politics and Sociology separated into two new departments.

The staff of this department have long contributed and continue to contribute actively to Lingnan's inter-disciplinary Bachelor of Social Science degree programme, unique in Hong Kong. As such we cooperate closely with colleagues in our two sister departments, Economics and Sociology & Social Policy. We teach in all five of the current streams of the BSocSc programme, but we are particularly strongly involved in the China and Asian Pacific Affairs (CAPA) and International Studies (IS) streams.

We are a cosmopolitan department, with experienced teaching staff drawn from Asia, North America and Europe. Although we teach across the range of political science sub-disciplines, we have particular strengths in Hong Kong politics, Chinese politics, Asian international relations, regional security and environmental politics. Our research interests are wide-ranging and we publish regularly - both in international journals and in book form - on a variety of Asian as well as broader international issues. We are also active in commenting in local an international media on current affairs. We contribute to the output and activities of the two social science-related research centres at the university, the Centre for Asian Pacific Studies and the Centre for Public Policy Studies, as well as cooperating with the survey unit of the Public Governance Programme.

Politics is said to be about 'who gets what' in society. Political science helps us find out more about how decisions are made, who has the power to make them and what are the results of such policy decisions. We pride ourselves on our close relations with students and believe that, by studying political science through our lectures and small-group tutorials, students can better understand how the real world works.

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