The American Political Science Affiliation is happy to announce Doctoral Dissertation Analysis Enchancment (DDRIG) awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program supplies help to boost and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation analysis in political science. Awards help fundamental analysis that’s theoretically derived and empirically oriented.
Bo Feng is a Ph.D. candidate within the Division of Political Science at Boston College. His analysis pursuits primarily concern the political economic system of paperwork, state and authoritarian politics. He primarily makes use of statistical strategies to look at how political leaders in single-party regimes allocate discretionary energy over policymaking—the facility to make or tailor insurance policies relying on particular circumstances—to native bureaucratic subordinates. He argues that political leaders in authoritarian single-party regimes often face a dilemma between delegating political discretion to successfully take care of native social challenges and sustaining political loyalty from subordinate bureaucratic elites. To resolve this dilemma, political leaders would select to strategically delegate discretionary powers to native bureaucrats, relying on the interaction of elite competitors and patronage connections throughout the political hierarchy. In his venture funded by APSA DDRIG, Bo examines such strategic allocation of discretion throughout the Chinese language political system by monitoring and measuring the specifics of coverage paperwork issued by Chinese language native governments utilizing text-as-data strategies to find out the house for discretion. by native bureaucrats. His analysis contributes to a scientific understanding of bureaucratic discretion and political-bureaucratic relations from a comparative perspective. His analysis can also be motivated by his earlier fieldwork utilizing semi-structured interviews with native bureaucrats in China. Earlier than becoming a member of Boston College, he obtained a BS in Pharmacy from China Pharmaceutical College and a Ph.D. in Economics from Fudan College, China.