I am a Joint Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science and Agricultural & Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. 

I am a political scientist and economist studying China. My research covers elite politics, public opinion, and the economy in China and in comparative settings, with particular attention to the distribution and allocation 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 thus guided by the demands of the question and the nature of available data.

Before 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 find my CV here.

Working Papers

Personalization and Its Governance Consequences in Authoritarian Regimes.

Political Preferences amid Weakening Institutional Constraints under Authoritarianism. (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)

*Drafts available upon request.