Wei Chen
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Wei Chen Associate Professor
E-mail: ccsjtu@sjtu.edu.cn
Research Areas: Comparative Political Economy, Chinese Political Economy, Public Economic Policy |
Education:
September 2010 – July 2016, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Public Economic Policy, Ph.D. in Economics (Direct Ph.D. Program)
September 2006 – June 2010, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Logistics Management, Bachelor of Management
Work Experience:
January 2024 – Present, Associate Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
October 2019 – December 2023, Assistant Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
October 2018 – September 2019, Lecturer, School of Social and Public Administration, East China University of Science and Technology
July 2016 – September 2018, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Social and Public Administration, East China University of Science and Technology
Scientific Research:
Research Projects
1.December 2022 – December 2024, National Social Science Fund of China – Later-Stage Funding Project: The Rise and Fall of Developmental States: A Stage-Based Analysis of Industrial Policy, Principal Investigator.
2.May 2017 – June 2018, 61st Batch of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation General Funding (2017M611469): Government Intervention and Development Stages: Differences in Effects and Formation Mechanisms, Principal Investigator.
Published Papers
Developmental States
1.Chen, Wei, and Bo Chen. 2021. “The Diversity of Developmental Governments: Government-Business Relations and Industrial Systems.” Comparative Economic & Social Systems, No. 1: 137–148. (CSSCI)
2.Chen, Wei. 2019. “Three Theoretical Debates on Developmental States: The Necessity, Effectiveness, and Timing of Government Intervention.” Journal of Public Administration, No. 1: 55–71. (CSSCI)
3.Xiao, Lina, and Wei Chen. 2019. “Toward a Shared Developmental State: A Further Transcendence of China’s Development Path in the New Era.” Hebei Academic Journal 39 (3): 186–191. (CSSCI)
4.Chen, Wei, and Shu Keng. 2017. “Government Intervention and Development Stages: A New Institutional Analysis of Development Strategies.” CASS Journal of Political Science, No. 6: 103–114. (CSSCI, Authoritative Journal in Political Science)
5.Chen, Wei, and Shu Keng. 2017. “The Chinese Developmental State in Transition: In Light of the East Asian Experiences.” Journal of Chinese Governance 2 (2): 209–222. (SSCI). Reprinted in The Palgrave Handbook of Local Governance in Contemporary China, edited by Jianxing Yu and Sujian Guo, 2019, Springer/Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 179–193.
6.Chen, Wei, and Shu Keng. 2017. “The Rise and Fall of Developmental States: State Capacity, Industrial Policy, and Development Stages.” Comparative Economic & Social Systems, No. 2: 1–13. (CSSCI) / Reprinted in full in Xinhua Digest (Online Edition), No. 18, 2017.
7.Keng, Shu, and Wei Chen. 2017. “Chinese Politics Research: Field Experience and Theoretical Paradigms — The Developmental State Model and China’s Development Experience.” Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), No. 1: 16–20. (CSSCI) / Reprinted in full in Chinese Politics, a reprint series of Information on Social Sciences, Renmin University of China, No. 5, 2017.
Chinese Political Economy / Political Economy of Technological Innovation
1.Chen, Wei, and Shu Keng. 2024. “How Does the Institutional Environment Affect Technological Innovation? An Examination from the Perspective of Technology Cycles.” Exploration and Free Views, No. 7: 137–149. (CSSCI)
2.Chen, Wei, and Shu Keng. 2024. “Bring SOEs Back for Technological Catch-Up: COMAC and China’s Commercial Aircraft Industry.” The China Review 24 (2): 127–156. (SSCI)
3.Chen, Wei, and Shu Keng. 2024. “Government Support and Technological Catch-Up in Strategic Industries: Catch-Up Strategies in the Global Commercial Aircraft Industry.” Journal of Public Administration, No. 2: 64–82. (CSSCI)
4.Keng, Shu, and Wei Chen. 2017. “The Root Causes of the ‘Middle-Income Trap’: Factor Scarcity or Institutional Constraints?” Tianjin Social Sciences, No. 2: 84–89. (CSSCI)
5.Chen, Wei. 2017. “Comparative Institutional Advantages and Differences in Industrial Structure: Differences in the Industrial Structures of China and India and Their Causes.” Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), No. 5: 35–48. (CSSCI)
6.Keng, Shu, and Wei Chen. 2015. “Government-Business Relations, Two-Way Rent-Seeking, and China’s FDI Miracle.” Sociological Studies, No. 5: 141–163. (Authoritative Journal in Sociology/CSSCI) / Reprinted in Reprinted Materials of Renmin University of China (Sociology), December 2015 / Included in Economic and Social Studies III, edited by Shiding Liu and Shuixiong Wang, Social Sciences Academic Press, 2016.
7.Chen, Wei, and Shu Keng. 2015. “Can Government Intervention Effectively Promote Technological Innovation? An Analysis Based on Two Cases.” Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), No. 3: 76–84. (CSSCI)
Government Personnel Governance
1.Chen, Wei, Shu Keng*, and Siyi Zhang. 2023. “China’s Bureaucratic Slack: Material Inducements and Decision Risks among Chinese Local Cadres.” The China Journal, No. 89: 70–94. (SSCI)
2.Zhong, Lingna, Shu Keng, and Wei Chen. 2016. “Selection and Incentives: The Internal Mechanisms of Hierarchical Differentiation in Chinese Government Personnel.” Journal of Public Administration, No. 5: 126–144. (CSSCI)
Other
1.Chen, Wei, and Shu Keng. 2019. “Economic and Trade Integration, Interest Perceptions, and Political Positions: A Dynamic Analysis of Taiwan Public Attitudes toward Cross-Strait Economic and Trade Relations.” Chinese Journal of Taiwan Studies, No. 2: 1–12. (CSSCI-Indexed Journal)
2.Chen, Wei, Shu Keng, and Lingna Zhong. 2017. “The ‘Rational Explanation’ and ‘Power Explanation’ of Institutional Change: A Review of Douglass North’s Structure and Change in Economic History.” Social Development Studies, No. 4: 227–236. (CSSCI)
3.Chen, Wei, Shu Keng, and Lingna Zhong. 2015. “Plain-Language Interpretation of Designing Social Inquiry: The Language of Everyday Thinking and the Logic of Research Design.” Journal of Public Administration, No. 4: 17–30. (CSSCI)
Textbooks
1.A Disciplinary Map of Developmental Politics, edited by Jirong Yan and Xiao Ma, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2023 edition.
2.Comparative Politics, edited by Zhengxu Wang, Shu Keng, and Shiping Tang, Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2021 edition.
Teaching Courses
Undergraduate: Principles of Modern Government (Required); Theories of Government and Markets (Elective)
MPA: Public Economics (Required)
Awards and Honors
Second Prize, Social Sciences Division, 7th Young Faculty Teaching Competition, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Contact Information:
School of International and Public Affairs, Xinjiang Building, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1954 Huashan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200030, China