Bo Feng

Bo Feng entered the Ph.D. program in Political Science at Boston University in Fall 2019. He received his B.S. in Pharmacy (2011) from China Pharmaceutical University, Master’s degree in Economics (2015) from Fujian Normal University, and Doctoral degree in Economics (2019) from Fudan University. During his Ph.D. study at Fudan University, he published an article on the relationship between authoritarian power-sharing among top-level political elites, political stability and economic growth using global panel data of authoritarian states, and also published pieces about the labor market in rural China and capital misallocation in China’s spatial economy. One of his current working paper concerns how global diffusion of changes in political institutions, especially democratization, depends on interstate cultural propinquity, based on a theoretical framework of collective action by political elites and the masses. Another working project focuses on how the power structure among local elites affects firms’ micro behavior in China. Now he is primarily interested in authoritarian politics with a special focus on Chinese politics and economy, as well as democratization and regime dynamics.