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. Methodologically, I explore innovative ways to obtain data on authoritarian governance and to improve accuracy and efficiency of survey-based measures. My book project 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.
Please feel free to contact me at:
yuehou@sas.upenn.edu
213 Stiteler Hall, 208 S.37th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
