I am a Joint Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science and Agricultural & Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and an incoming Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center on Contemporary China (CCC) at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) at Princeton University. Before, I was a Predoctoral Visiting Scholar in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.

I am a political scientist and economist studying authoritarian regimes, with a focus on China. My research addresses elite politics, public opinion, and the economy in China and in comparative settings. I am particularly interested in the allocation and distribution of power, the structure and configuration of preferences, and social stability and change. My methodological toolkit spans quantitative social science broadly — from causal inference and quasi-experimental designs to structural modeling and formal theory. Each project is guided by the demands of the question and the nature of the available data.

Prior to Wisconsin, I received my MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics as a Lee Family Scholar and my Bachelor of Economics and Finance from the University of Hong Kong as an HKU Foundation Scholar. 

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