Iza Ding
Associate Professor
Harvard University Ph.D. Government (2016)
Curriculum Vitae
- Website
- Scott Hall 209
- Office Hours: By appointment only.
Interests
Research Interest(s): Environmental Politics; Climate Change; Bureaucracy; Nationalism; Political Regimes; Historical Memory; Comparative Historical Analysis; Ethnography; Experiments
Program Area(s): Methods; Comparative Politics
Regional Specialization(s): Europe; Asia
Subfield Specialties: Comparative Historical Analysis; Experimental Methods; Law and Politics; Public Opinion, Political Communication, and Political Participation
BiographyIza Ding (Ph.D. Harvard, 2016) is Associate Professor of Political Science. Her research explores the paradoxes and pushbacks attending economic, political, and cultural modernization, such as creative resistance against institutional rigidities, lingering moral traditions against legal development, enduring historical memories against rapid socioeconomic transformations, and humans' simultaneous degradation of nature and attachment to nature. Ding is the author of The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China (Cornell University Press, 2022). She is currently working on a monograph on global historical waves of environmentalism.
Publications
- Iza Ding. 2022. The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China. Cornell University Press.
- Graham Beattie, Iza Ding, Andrea La Nauze. 2022. “Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap in China? Evidence from an Information Experiment.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 115: 102713.
- Iza Ding and Michael Thompson-Brusstar. 2021. “The Anti-Bureaucratic Ghost in China’s Bureaucratic Machine.” China Quarterly 248 (S1): 116-140.
- 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 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 and Dan Slater. 2021. “Democratic Decoupling.” Democratization 28 (1): 63-80.
- Iza Ding. 2020. “Performative Governance.” World Politics. 72 (4): 525-56.
- Iza Ding and Marek Hlavac. 2017. “‘Right’ Choice: Restorative Nationalism and Right-wing Populism in Central and Eastern Europe” Chinese Political Science Review 2: 427-444.