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
