I am the Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. This year I am a visiting scholar at  Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions (SCCEI).


My research centers on the political economy of non-democracies with a regional focus on China.  I am interested in how individual actors (e.g., citizens, firms) interact with the state and state agents that are not held accountable by elections, and how these interactions affect outcomes such as economic growth, government service, quality of institutions, and policy changes. 

Research

 BOOK

Award: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2020

       Reviews: Foreign Affairs, 2020; Perspectives on Politics, 2020; Journal of Chinese Political Science, 2020; CHOICE, 2020; The China Quarterly, 2020; The China Journal, 2021

       Media Coverage: The Monkey Cage (July 2020); New Books in Political Science with Susan Liebell (April 2020)



JOURNAL ARTICLES

Media: East Asia Hotspots Podcast  





         Media: The Economist; South China Morning Post inkstone


        Award: The inaugural award for the Best JEPS Article Award (2019)



Media: The New York Times; 论文大焖锅


Media:  The Economist




OTHER WRITING



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