Jiangnan Zhu
Professor Zhu is interested in political economy in developing countries broadly and the social and political consequences of economic development in China and other East Asian countries specifically. In particular, her interest lies in exploring why processes of modernization have produced different results in different societies. Her dissertation, focusing on corruption and anticorruption in China, tries to explain why corruption has not totally got out of control of the Chinese Communist Party despite its severity.
Current Research:
Regional variation of corruption across China, the institutional determinants of anticorruption in China, elite’s attitudes toward media in China.