I am a Joint Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science and Agricultural & Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.  I study the political economy of authoritarian politics and public opinion, with a regional focus on China. My advisors are Rikhil Bhavnani, Paul Dower (co-chair), Yoshiko Herrera (co-chair), Junyan Jiang, Nadav Shelef (co-chair), and Yiqing Xu.

Before coming to the University of Wisconsin, I received my MSc in economics from the London School of Economics and my  BA  in economics and finance from the University of Hong Kong.  In  AY 2023-24, I was a predoctoral visiting scholar in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.

My name is pronounced /Ming-Tsong Pan/. You can reach me via email: mingcong.pan@wisc.edu.

Selected Working Papers

Authoritarian Backsliding: How Power Concentrates in Non-Democracies and Its Consequences.

Political Preferences in the Shadow of Authoritarian Backsliding. (with Shane Xuan and Yiqing Xu)

Swing with the State: Preference Falsification and Public Support for Policies under Authoritarianism. (with Marshall Mo and Yiqing Xu)