Episode 18: This month, we talk to Susan Whiting, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Tan Zhou, PhD Student, from the University of Washington. We discuss their latest research which looks at vote buying and land taking in China's village elections. They have recently published a paper on the subject called “Farmland and Fraud: Land Rents and Vote Buying in China’s Village Elections.” Susan Whiting (Ph.D., Michigan; B.A., Yale) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she also holds adjunct appointments in the Jackson School of International Studies and the School of Law. She specializes in Chinese and comparative politics, with an emphasis on the political economy of development. Tan Zhao is a PhD Student in the Political Science Department at the University of Washington. His research interests are primarily Chinese politics, particularly China's political transformation and its development of grassroots democracy.
Selected Work: Tan Zhao. (2018) Vote Buying and Land Takings in China’s Village Elections. Journal of Contemporary China, 27:110, 277-294.
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