Yue Hou was a 2015-2016 CSCC postdoctoral fellow. She is currently the Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences in the department of political science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her substantive research interests include authoritarian institutions, business-state relations, the political economy of development, and ethnic politics, with a regional focus on China. Her book The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China (October 2019, Cambridge University Press) examines strategies Chinese private entrepreneurs use to protect property from expropriation. She received her PhD in Political Science from MIT and her BA in Economics and Mathematics from Grinnell College.
Yue Hou

Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences 2015-2016 CSCC Postdoctoral Fellow
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