Jennifer Pan

Jennifer Pan is an American political scientist currently serving as professor of communication at Stanford University, where she is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and holds a courtesy appointment as a professor of political science. Her book Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers discusses the guaranteed minimum income system in China.

Education Pan received her Ph.D. in 2015 from Harvard University's Department of Government. She graduated with a B.A. from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs in 2004.

Articles G King, J Pan, ME Roberts, "How censorship in China allows government criticism but silences collective expression", American Political Science Review 107 (2), 2013, 326–343 G King, J Pan, ME Roberts, "How the Chinese government fabricates social media posts for strategic distraction, not engaged argument", American Political Science Review 111 (3), 2017, 484–501 G King, J Pan, ME Roberts, "Reverse-engineering censorship in China: Randomized experimentation and participant observation", Science 345 (6199), 2014, 1251722 J Chen, J Pan, Y Xu, "Sources of authoritarian responsiveness: A field experiment in China", American Journal of Political Science 60 (2), 2016, 383–400 J Pan, Y Xu, "China’s ideological spectrum" The Journal of Politics 80 (1), 2018, 254–273