Episode 4: Pierre F. Landry discusses China's rapid urbanization and the institutional challenges that arise due to these seismic demographic shifts. The conversation centres on China's massive bureaucratic system and how both local and national levels of this system compete for financial resources and influence. Pierre F. Landry is a Professor of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and co-director of the Universities Service Centre for China Studies at CUHK. His training was in economics and law at Sciences-Po in Paris and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. He is also an alumnus of the Hopkins-Nanjing program. His research interests focus on Asian and Chinese politics, comparative local government, quantitative comparative analysis, and survey research. His has published on governance and the political management of officials in China. Besides articles and book chapters in comparative politics and political methodology, he is a collaborating scholar of the GLD Program in Gothenburg as well as a Research Fellow at the Research Center for the Study of Contemporary China at Peking University. He also collaborates with the Governance and Local Development project as well as the UNDP and the World Bank on developing indicators of the variability of local governance in a variety of countries.
Selected Works: Chen, J., Davis, D. S., & Landry, P. F. (2017). Beyond Hukou Reform: Enhancing Human-Centered Urbanization in China. Paulson Policy Memorandum.
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