Iza Ding is Assistant Professor of Political Science with a courtesy appointment in Public Policy. She is a scholar of comparative political development, with published and ongoing projects on environmental policymaking and implementation, environmental attitudes and behavior, bureaucratic organizations, populism, nationalism, democratic erosion, and the rule of law. Her book The Performative State is forthcoming with Cornell University Press.
Courses:
0300 Introduction to Comparative Politics
1381 Political Economy of Development
2020 Empirical Methods of Research
1381 Democratic Erosion
1328 Authoritarian Politics
1332 Government and Politics of Contemporary China
1336 Business and Political Economy of Modern China
Education & Training
- PhD, Harvard University, 2016
Representative Publications
Iza Ding and Michael Thompson-Brusstar. Forthcoming. "The Anti-Bureaucratic Ghost in the Bureaucratic Machine." China Quarterly.
Iza Ding, Dan Slater, and Huseyin Zengin. 2021. "Populism and the Past: Restoring, Redeeming, and Retaining the Nation.” Studies in Comparative International Development 56(2): 148-169.
Iza Ding and Dan Slater. 2021. “Democratic Decoupling.” Democratization 28(1): 63-80.
Iza Ding and Jeffrey Javed. 2021. “The Autocrat’s Moral-Legal Dilemma: Popular Morality and Legal Institutions in China.” Comparative Political Studies 54(6): 989-1022.
Iza Ding. 2020. “Performative Governance.” World Politics 72(4): 525-56.
Research Interests
Environmental Politics and Policy
Politics of Autocracy and Democracy
