Schedule
Friday, April 26th
Room 217, Department of Politics, NYU
Room 217, Department of Politics, NYU
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8:00-8:30
Breakfast 8:30-8:35 Introduction to QCSS 2019 by Reed Lei Full Paper Panels (Rules: 25 min of presentation, 7 min of comment, and 13 min of Q&A) Session 1 Authoritarian Politics in China Chair: Yishuang Li 8:35-9:20 Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China Presenter: Melanie Meng Xue Discussant: Ye Wang 9:20-10:05 Political Career Incentives and Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from China Presenter: Reed Zhenhuan Lei Discussant: Yuhua Wang 10:05-10:20 Coffee/Tea Break Session 2 Political Behavior Chair: Sophie Xiangqian Yi 10:20-11:05 Do “Responsive Officials” or “Sanctioning Officials” Enhance Tax Compliance? Experimental Evidence from China Presenter: Xiaobo Lu Discussant: Chris Dawes 11:05-11:50 Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy Presenter: Erik Wang Discussant: Gwyneth McClendon 11:50-12:45 Lunch Break |
Session 3 State and Nationalism
Chair: Yishuang Li 12:45-13:30 Elite Kinship Network and State Building: Theory and Evidence from Imperial China Presenter: Yuhua Wang Discussant: Congyi Zhou 13:30-14:15 Religious Conflict and the Origins of Nationalism: Evidence From China Presenter: Daniel Mattingly Discussant: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita 14:15-14:30 Coffee/Tea Break Session 4 Environmental Politics Chair: Zhaotian Luo 14:30-15:15 The Political Pollution Cycle: An Inconvenient Truth Presenter: Shiran Victoria Shen Discussant: Julia Payson 15:15-16:00 The Politics of Environmental Regulatory Actions in China: Does Fixed Asset Intensity Affect Pollution Levies, Punitive Actions, and Firm Environmental Ratings? Presenter: Xun Cao Discussant: Shanker Satyanath 16:10-17:50 Individual Meetings (20 min per slot, five slots in total) 18:00-20:00 Dinner |
Paper Invited to QCSS-3
We have received an unexpected large number of paper/abstract submission to QCSS-3 this year. We thank all those who have submitted their work to us. To ensure academic quality of QCSS-3, we have read and reviewed all works quite carefully. All works were first be read by the coordinator responsible for academic quality and he decided if the paper would be sent out for double blind review. Reviewers then read received papers within ten days and sent recommendation and their comments on the paper back to the coordinator. Papers receiving higher evaluations from reviewers will be invited.
Now we have completed reviewing all works submitted to us. We are pleased to announce that the authors of following papers are invited to QCSS-3 in 2019 (listed by alphabetic order):
The Politics of Environmental Regulatory Actions in China: Does Fixed Asset Intensity Affect Pollution Levies, Punitive Actions, and Firm Environmental Ratings?
Presenter: Xun Cao, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University
Discussant: Shanker Satyanath, Professor of Politics, NYU
Political Career Incentives and Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from China
Presenter: Reed Zhenhuan Lei, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Politics, NYU
Discussant: Yuhua Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University
Do “Responsive Officials” or “Sanctioning Officials” Enhance Tax Compliance? Experimental Evidence from China
Presenter: Xiaobo Lu, Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Discussant: Chris Dawes, Associate Professor of Politics, NYU
Religious Conflict and the Origins of Nationalism: Evidence From China
Presenter: Daniel Mattingly, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University
Discussant: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Silver Professor of Politics, NYU
The Political Pollution Cycle: An Inconvenient Truth
Presenter: Shiran Victoria Shen, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia
Discussant: Julia Payson, Assistant Professor of Politics, NYU
Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy
Presenter: Erik Wang, PhD candidate, Department of Politics, Princeton University
Discussant: Gwyneth McClendon, Assistant Professor of Politics, NYU
Elite Kinship Network and State Building: Theory and Evidence from Imperial China
Presenter: Yuhua Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University
Discussant: Congyi Zhou, Assistant Professor of Politics, NYU
Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China
Presenter: Melanie Meng Xue, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
Discussant: Ye Wang, PhD candidate of Politics, NYU
Now we have completed reviewing all works submitted to us. We are pleased to announce that the authors of following papers are invited to QCSS-3 in 2019 (listed by alphabetic order):
The Politics of Environmental Regulatory Actions in China: Does Fixed Asset Intensity Affect Pollution Levies, Punitive Actions, and Firm Environmental Ratings?
Presenter: Xun Cao, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University
Discussant: Shanker Satyanath, Professor of Politics, NYU
Political Career Incentives and Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from China
Presenter: Reed Zhenhuan Lei, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Politics, NYU
Discussant: Yuhua Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University
Do “Responsive Officials” or “Sanctioning Officials” Enhance Tax Compliance? Experimental Evidence from China
Presenter: Xiaobo Lu, Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Discussant: Chris Dawes, Associate Professor of Politics, NYU
Religious Conflict and the Origins of Nationalism: Evidence From China
Presenter: Daniel Mattingly, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University
Discussant: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Silver Professor of Politics, NYU
The Political Pollution Cycle: An Inconvenient Truth
Presenter: Shiran Victoria Shen, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia
Discussant: Julia Payson, Assistant Professor of Politics, NYU
Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy
Presenter: Erik Wang, PhD candidate, Department of Politics, Princeton University
Discussant: Gwyneth McClendon, Assistant Professor of Politics, NYU
Elite Kinship Network and State Building: Theory and Evidence from Imperial China
Presenter: Yuhua Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University
Discussant: Congyi Zhou, Assistant Professor of Politics, NYU
Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China
Presenter: Melanie Meng Xue, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
Discussant: Ye Wang, PhD candidate of Politics, NYU
QCSS-3 Call for Papers
The Third Quantitative China Studies Seminar
April 26, 2019
New York University
We are pleased to announce that the Third Quantitative China Studies Seminar (QCSS-3) will be held on April 26, 2019, at 19 West 4th Street (NYU Washington Square Campus).
In the previous two QCSS workshops, we have invited faculty members and PhD candidates from Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Penn State, Peking University, Princeton, UCSD, UIUC, and Yale to present their works. In QCSS-3, we continue to welcome paper submissions using China as the empirical context to understand general political science questions. We especially welcome those research projects employing cutting-edge empirical methods or game-theoretical modelling techniques. We expect to invite around 6 papers to QCSS-3 in 2019. Each paper will receive a detailed discussion from at least one faculty member of Department of Politics at NYU.
We are now accepting paper submissions to the seminar. To submit your work to us, please send your paper and basic information of the presenter (name, institution, current status (PhD candidate or faculty member), and contact information, or you can send us a recent CV) to the conference coordinator, Zhenhuan Lei (zhenhuan.lei@nyu.edu), by 12a.m. (EST) February 8, 2019. We will notify authors of selected papers by mid-March. The conference does not charge any registration fee. We will reimburse travel costs and provide hotel rooms to presenters.
For more information about QCSS, please visit our website https://www.qcssnyu.com for frequently asked questions.
We look forward to receiving your papers and meeting you at the seminar!
QCSS-3 Organizing Team
Department of Politics
New York University
April 26, 2019
New York University
We are pleased to announce that the Third Quantitative China Studies Seminar (QCSS-3) will be held on April 26, 2019, at 19 West 4th Street (NYU Washington Square Campus).
In the previous two QCSS workshops, we have invited faculty members and PhD candidates from Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Penn State, Peking University, Princeton, UCSD, UIUC, and Yale to present their works. In QCSS-3, we continue to welcome paper submissions using China as the empirical context to understand general political science questions. We especially welcome those research projects employing cutting-edge empirical methods or game-theoretical modelling techniques. We expect to invite around 6 papers to QCSS-3 in 2019. Each paper will receive a detailed discussion from at least one faculty member of Department of Politics at NYU.
We are now accepting paper submissions to the seminar. To submit your work to us, please send your paper and basic information of the presenter (name, institution, current status (PhD candidate or faculty member), and contact information, or you can send us a recent CV) to the conference coordinator, Zhenhuan Lei (zhenhuan.lei@nyu.edu), by 12a.m. (EST) February 8, 2019. We will notify authors of selected papers by mid-March. The conference does not charge any registration fee. We will reimburse travel costs and provide hotel rooms to presenters.
For more information about QCSS, please visit our website https://www.qcssnyu.com for frequently asked questions.
We look forward to receiving your papers and meeting you at the seminar!
QCSS-3 Organizing Team
Department of Politics
New York University
Frequently asked questions:
- Can I submit a paper abstract or proposal?
- No. We only consider complete paper for QCSS-3.
- How does QCSS-3 review submitted works?
- All paper submissions will receive two stages of review. It will first be read by a seminar co-editor who will decide whether to send the paper for double-blind review. If the paper satisfies basic requirements, the co-editor will invite at least two scholars in the related field to review the paper and make recommendation to QCSS-3.If the paper is not accepted by QCSS-3, the co-editor is going to provide detailed comments on the paper and attach reviewers’ comments (if sent out for review). For papers accepted by us, we will also share coeditor and reviewers’ comments and invite the presenters to submit a revised version before the conference. The purpose is to give all papers submitted to us some feedback.
- What kind of works will be “desk rejected” by coeditors?
- Co-editors are going to reject (a) incomplete papers, (b) papers unrelated to China, and (c) papers with no clear contribution to the general understanding of political science questions. In most cases, co-editors do not make judgement over the quality of the paper at the desk rejection phase. The review of paper quality is delegated to outside reviewers. Co-editors only handle the selection of reviewers and correspondence with them. Based on reviewers’ recommendation, the organizing team of QCSS-3 makes the final decision on invitation name list.
- Who are the reviewers?
- Reviewers of QCSS-3 are PhD students or assistant professors who have some experience working on Chinese politics.
- Does QCSS-3 accept paper submissions from other fields than political science?
- While we welcome paper submissions from sister disciplines (and we indeed have invited scholars from non-politics fields to present in our workshop every year), such papers should clearly explain how they can contribute to the literature of political science.
- Can master-degree students submit works to QCSS-3?
- Yes, they can. We make decision on invited works based on the quality of the work rather than the identity of the author.
- Does my research on Hong Kong count as research related to China?
- Research focusing on Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Tibet, and Xinjiang will not be rejected due to paper’s relevance to Chinese politics.
- Can I apply for conference travel grants from QCSS-3?
- All invited speakers will automatically receive full reimbursement for their travel costs. We will also provide two-nights hotel rooms and meals for invited speakers.
- Who should I contact if I have more questions?
- Please contact workshop coordinator Zhenhuan Lei (Zhenhuan.lei@nyu.edu).
Co-organizer
- Reed Zhenhuan Lei (Coordinator)
- Yishuang (Athena) Li (Treasurer)
- Sophie Xiangqian Yi
- Junlong Aaron Zhou
