Yale PS professors

Pierre-François Landry, Associate Professor of Political Science, received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2000. He has been affiliated with the Research Center for Contemporary China since 1997. His research interests focus on Chinese politics, comparative local government, and quantitative comparative political analysis. He is currently writing a book tentatively titled "The CCP and Local Elites in Post-Deng China". Articles in progress include "Explaining Party Membership in Urban China" and "GPS sampling for social science survey research in China" based on an experiment in spatial sampling methodology that relies on the Geographical Positioning System to survey populations that are difficult to enumerate.

Campus address: 115 Prospect St., Rosenkranz Hall, Room 337
Phone: 432-5016
Email: pierre.landry@yale.edu
Personal Web Page: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~pl94/
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Jessica Chen Weiss
Phone: 203-432-5011
Fax: 203-432-6196
Email: jessica.weiss@yale.edu
Personal Web Page: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~jcw74/
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Steven Smith
constitutional democracy

James Scott
James Scott, Ph.D., Yale University, 1967, is the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and is Director of the Agrarian Studies Program. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has held grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science, Science, Technology and Society Program at M.I.T., and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, theories of class relations and anarchism. He is currently teaching Agrarian Studies and Rebellion, Resistance and Repression. Recent publications include "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed", Yale University Press, 1997; “Geographies of Trust: Geographies of Hierarchy,” in Democracy and Trust, 1998; “State Simplifications and Practical Knowledge,” in People’s Economy, People’s Ecology, 1998 and "The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia" (Yale Press, 2009).


Campus address: 115 Prospect St., Rosenkranz Hall, Room 401
Phone: 436-4091
Email: james.scott@yale.edu
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