Professor of Political Science and Director, Global China Studies
NYU Shanghai
Pierre Landry is a scholar of political science and former tenured professor at University of Pittsburgh. He also taught in the department of Political Science at Yale University from 2001 to 2010. Pierre Landry has been a researcher with RCCC (the Research Centre for Contemporary China) at Peking University since 1996. He also holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Michigan. In his book Decentralized Authoritarianism in China published by the Cambridge University Press, Pierre Landry took an unique perspective in examining the promotion mechanisms for local cadres in China to explain the compatibility of China's decentralization process and the enduring authoritarianism. His papers were published in several leading journals in political science, includingPolitical Analysis, Comparative Political Studies, and the Journal of Politics etc.
Research interests: comparative politics, political research methodology, survey research, legal development, political development, East Asian and Chinese politics.