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Dr. Li Qin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Governance and Policy Science, CUHK. She received her PhD in Government and Public Administration from CUHK in 2025. Her research interests focus on comparative politics, Chinese politics, public policy, and local governance. Her dissertation investigates the political economy of resource rents redistribution in China.
Background:
PhD in Government and Public Administration, CUHK 2025
MPhil in Public Finance and Public Policy, Renmin University of China 2022
BA in Public Affairs Management, China University of Political Science and Law 2020
Research and Teaching Interests
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Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics, Public Policy
Publication
Publication:
- YANG Hongshan & LI Qin. (2021). “Attention Steering of Policy Experimentation and Adaptive Governance,” Administrative Tribune. 28(3), pp.59-67 (In Chinese). (CSSCI; IF= 5.677)
- ZHAN Jing Vivian & LI Qin. (2024). “From Curse to Cooptation: How Resource Conflicts Drive Social Policies in China,” in progress.
- Presented at the 3rd Conference “New Advances in the Political Economy of Development in Eurasia”, Almaty, Kazakhstan. & 2024 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA.
- LI Qin & ZHAN Jing Vivian. (2025). “When Will Mining Companies Pay More Taxes? Clientelism and Resource Rents Redistribution in China,” in progress.
- Presented at The Inaugural Asia-Pacific Politics and Public Administration Conference and the 8th Empirical Political Science in Hong Kong Workshop, Hong Kong, China
- LI Qin. (2025) “Local Embeddedness and Fiscal Autonomy: When Will Mining Companies More Broadly Redistribute Resource Rents in China,” in progress.
Grants/ Awards:
- Co-Investigator, CUHK Social Science Faculty Direct Grant for Research, “State Response to Local Resource Curse in China: A Computational Policy Analysis” (2025-2027)
- Team member, Hong Kong Research Grants Council General Research Fund, “Embedded Extraction: Coping with the Local Resource Curse in China” (2022-2025)