Jia Li
School of Social Sciences
Assistant Professor
Biography
Jia Li studies autocratic politics, democratization, and democratic backsliding. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State University in 2023. He is interested in elections, political parties, public opinion, and corruption in autocracies and democracies. His work applies quantitative analysis, experiments, surveys, formal modeling, and social network analysis, among other methods. He is particularly interested in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Jia teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on comparative politics and methodology.