Description: I am a professor of Government at Cornell University and serve as Director of Cornell's East Asia Program. I study authoritarianism focusing on China, cities, statistics, and climate change. I serve as an editor at The Monkey Cage Good Authority and write the China Lab newsletter. You can find my CV here. In my new book Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts:…
China, authoritarianism, statistics, cities, and climate change
Jeremy Wallace Research Work in Progress Teaching Commentary Science of Politics, Blog Archive Jeremy Wallace I am a professor of Government at Cornell University and serve as Director of Cornell’s East Asia Program . I study authoritarianism focusing on China, cities, statistics, and climate change. I serve as an editor at The Monkey Cage and write the China Lab newsletter . You can find my CV here .
In my new book Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China , I argue that a few numbers came to define Chinese politics, until they did not count what mattered and what they counted did not measure up.