Political economy of China; Chinese public opinion; elite politics and mass-elite interactions; power and institutions
Junyan Jiang is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science. He studies and teaches on topics including elite politics, public opinion, and elite-mass interactions. His current project uses an original biographical database of over 4,000 officials at multiple levels of government to examine how informal patron-client networks shaped the patterns of political and economic governance in China. More generally, he is interested in developing new methods and data sources to better measure and understand the dynamics of intra-elite interactions in both Chinese and comparative contexts. He has published in outlets such as American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Development Economics, among others, and is the recipient of the 2020 Gregory Luebbert Article Award for best article in comparative politics. His research was supported by the National Science Foundation from the United States and the Research Grant Council from Hong Kong.
Prior to Columbia, Jiang taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Chicago and BA in economics and finance from the University of Hong Kong.
