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Netina Tan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of British Columbia. Her dissertation "Access to Power: Hegemonic Party Rule in Singapore and Taiwan" was awarded the 2011 Vincent Lemieux Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis submitted at a Canadian Institution in 2009 or 2010 by CPSA.

Netina was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto from 2011-2. She completed her B.A. at the National University of Singapore, and worked as a Research Officer in the Singapore Ministry of Defence before attaining her M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies at the NUS and M.A. in Political Science at the University of Regina.