Faculty / Academic and Teaching
Dr LIU, Dongshu
劉冬舒
BBA (PolyU), MSc (LSE), MA PhD (Syracuse)
Assistant Professor
Dongshu Liu received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Syracuse University. His research interests include Chinese politics, political economy and institutions in authoritarian regimes, and survey experiment on public opinion and political behavior.
Dongshu’s primary research is about distributional politics in authoritarian regimes. He also conduct studies on online political participation, policy advocacy, authoritarian control and repression, and regime support in China. His research works have appeared in Governance, Journal of Contemporary China, and Political Studies.

Political Institution and Political Economy of Authoritarian Regime

Public Opinion and Political Behavior in Autocracies

Chinese Politics and Public Policies

Authoritarian Politics

Political Economy and Institution of China

Public Opinion and Political Behavior
Liu, Dongshu. 2020. “Consultative Channels in the Authoritarian Policy Process: the Role of Non-Government Organizations and Their Environmental Policy Advocacy in China”. Governance, 33(2), 323-342
Liu, Dongshu. 2019. “Punishing the Dissidents: the Selective Implementation of Stability Preservation in China”. Journal of Contemporary China, 28 (119), 795-812
Shao, Li, and Dongshu Liu. 2018. “The Road to Cynicism: The Political Consequences of Online Satire Exposure in China.” Political Studies, 67 (2), 517-536.