Keynote lecturer: Zhou Titi
Time: 14.30-16.30 on 18th December, 2014
Venue: Meeting Room 303, Phoenix Building, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Host: Center for Faculty Development and School of Public Economics and Administration
Research Professor Zhou was awarded with Doctorate in Political Science in Social Science Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and she works as the research professor in Social Science Department. She is the expertise in the field of Political Economics, Political Geography, Politics allocation under authority system and Chinese Politics. Her research is frontier in the world, no matter in terms of theories or methods she used. She also accomplished dozens of first-class works, such as Intra-Party Competition and Policy Bias in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from Monetary Policymaking in China, Dictator's Loyalty- Competence Tradeoff in Political Selection: Evidence from Revolutionary China (with Ying Bai), Rumors and Social Protests in China (with Yongshun Cai), Information as Common Knowledge: Information Technologies and Social Protests in China (with Yongshun Cai), and all of them were checked by well-known international journals. This time, she comes to give the report of her recent dissertation, The Geography of Power Elites in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from China.