Welcome! I am an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. My substantive research interests include authoritarian institutions, business-state relations, the political economy of development, and ethnic politics, with a regional focus on China.My 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.In 2015–16, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Penn's Center for the Study of Contemporary China. I received my PhD in Political Science from MIT and my BA in Economics and Mathematics from Grinnell College. I am spending the 2019–20 academic year as a visiting scholar at the University of Washington. Please feel free to contact me at: yuehou@sas.upenn.eduPerelman Center for Political Science and Economics133 S. 36th St, Philadelphia PA 19104
