Yue Hou

About

Yue Hou is an associate professor in the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include political economy, authoritarian politics, and identity politics, with a regional focus on China.

Her first book, The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China (Cambridge University Press, 2019) addresses the long-standing puzzle of how China’s private sector manages to grow without secure property rights. She is currently writing a book exploring how China’s government and businesses work together to provide public services, focusing particularly on unglamorous areas such as waste management.

Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and the China Quarterly, among other peer-reviewed journals. Some of her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Boston Review, The Economist, and the South China Morning Post.

She received her PhD in political science from MIT and her BA in economics and mathematics from Grinnell College.