Anqi Yang
Comparative Politics, International Relations
Website: anqiyang.webnode.page/
Research Interests: Regime transition | State-building | Late-Development | Authoritarian Politics | Qualitative Methods | Comparative Historical Analysis | China
Anqi Yang is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Florida. She is a comparativist with a regional focus of East Asia and Western Europe. Her research agenda has been driven by three broad puzzles: What are the origins of democracy and dictatorship? What drives the formation of modern states, their success and failure? What explains successful development and the lack thereof? Her dissertation examines the distinct pathways and conditions of democratization in the late-developing world.
Before coming to UF, she obtained her master’s degrees in Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, U.S., and in Politics at Sun Yat-sen University, China. She received her BA in German at Zhejiang University, China, and did a one-semester exchange at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.