Floyd Zhang

Graduate Student Research Funding | 2020 - 2021 Academic Year

A Study of the Political Economy of Nationalism in Autocracies: Identity, Redistribution, and Growth

The project is concerned with the political economy of nationalism in autocracies. Zhang examines, both theoretically and empirically, how national identity affects citizens' demand for economic redistribution and political power in autocracies, and explores its implications for positive analyses of economic policies, development, inequality, and institutional change or persistence. Zhang proposes a survey experiment to test and estimate the theoretic model.

Floyd Zhang, Graduate School of Business

Zhang is a PhD student studying political economics. He received both his BA and MA in Economics with 1st class honors from the The University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics.

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