Political Methodology
322 Hamilton Hall
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2-5pm every Wednesday
yewang@unc.edu
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Ye Wang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), UC San Diego in the 2021-2022 academic year. Ye received a PhD from the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University (2021), an MA in economics from the National School of Development (NSD), Peking University (2014), and a BS in mathematics from Fudan University (2011). Ye’s research focuses on both political methodology and comparative politics. As a methodologist, Ye develops statistical tools to investigate the spillover effects of policies or events in time, space, and social networks, as well as to improve the transparency of research designs and hypothesis testing. His dissertation was awarded the John T. Williams Prize by the Society for Political Methodology in 2020. As a comparativist, Ye applies these methods to understand the role of social learning in shaping people’s views and actions under non-democratic regimes, and the interaction between contentious and electoral politics. His work has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science and Electoral Studies.