Dr Chao-yo Cheng
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Dr Chao-yo Cheng is a Lecturer in Quantitative Social Research. He is also the Director of Birkbeck's Postgraduate Social Research Programmes. His work applies various computational, quantitative, and qualitative methods to address a wide range of topics in the political economy of development and institutions. Before coming to Birkbeck, Chao-yo held fellowship positions at Tsinghua University (Beijing) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Office hours
Friday 3-5pm during the academic year (please email or use this link to make an appointment).
Qualifications
Web profiles
Administrative responsibilities
- Steering Group Member, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR)
Professional activities
Editorial Advisory Panel, Public Administration and Development (PAD)
Young Editorial Board Member, Asian Review of Political Economy (ARPE)
ORCID
0000-0002-4488-2450 -
Research
Research
Research interests
- Race, ethnicity, and politics
- Comparative authoritarianism
- Political economy of development and institutions
- Public policy and politics of Asia (China, India, and Southeast Asia)
- Computational social science
- Formal theory and quantitative methodology
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I am happy to work with students using innovative computational, quantitative, and qualitative methods to study various topics in the political economy of development and institutions, such as
- democracy and authoritarianism,
- local governance, intergovernmental relations and state building,
- race, ethnicity and politics,
- poverty and inequality, and
- the politics of government responsiveness.
Students can examine single-country and/or comparative cases in the Global South, using contemporary and/or historical perspectives. I will assist in placing their research within a comprehensive theoretical framework.
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Masterclass in Social Research (SSPO019S7)
- Advanced Topics in Quantitative Social Research (SSPO241H7)
- Chinese Politics (SSPO262H6)
- Investigating the Social World (SSPO263S7)
- democracy and authoritarianism,
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Cheng, Chao-Yo and Lin, Y.-T. (2023) Ethnic ties, organized opposition and voter defection in authoritarian elections. Government and Opposition 58 (3), pp. 497-515. ISSN 0017-257X.
- Ma, C. and Cheng, Chao-Yo and Haibo, H. (2022) From local to upper capture: the Chinese experiment of administrative courts. China Review 22 (3), pp. 9-46. ISSN 1680-2012.
- Cheng, Chao-Yo (2021) Poverty alleviation and state building in peripheral areas: evidence from China. Japanese Journal of Political Science 22 (4), pp. 312-332. ISSN 1468-1099.
- Dai, Y. and Li, Y. and Cheng, Chao-Yo and Zhao, H. and Meng, T. (2021) Government-led or public-led? Chinese policy agenda setting during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 23 (2), pp. 157-175. ISSN 1387-6988.
- Cheng, Chao-Yo and Lee, Y.J. and Murray, G. and Noh, Y. and Urpelainen, J. and Van Horn, J. (2020) Vested interests: examining the political obstacles to power sector reform in twenty Indian states. Energy Research & Social Science 70, pp. 101766. ISSN 2214-6296.
- Aklin, M. and Cheng, Chao-Yo and Urpelainen, J. (2020) Inequality in policy implementation: caste and electrification in rural India. Journal of Public Policy 41 (2), pp. 331-359. ISSN 0143-814X.
- Cheng, Chao-Yo and Urpelainen, J. (2019) Criminal politicians and socioeconomic development: evidence from rural India. Studies in Comparative International Development 54 (4), pp. 501-527. ISSN 0039-3606.