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dr. Chendi Wang

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Political Science and Public Administration

Assistant Professor, Network Institute

Assistant Professor, Research Programmes - Social Sciences, Multi-layered governance in EUrope and beyond (MLG)

Personal information

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, VU Amsterdam. Before joining VU, I was a Research Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in the ERC synergy project SOLID.

I received a PhD in Political Science in 2021 and a Master of Research in 2017 from the EUI in Florence, an MSc in Comparative Politics from University College London (UCL) in 2014 and a BA in Translation Studies from Shanghai International Studies University in 2013.

Please refer to my personal website for more information.

Research

Research Interest

My research agenda focuses on comparative politics, political behaviour, political economy and political methodology.

My current substantive research focuses on European politics, comparative political economy of crisis and macro-policy, party & electoral politics, political mobilisation and AI governance & algorithmic accountability. Methodologically, my current research agenda revolves around Bayesian and nonparametric statistics, measurement, time series analysisand machine learning, AI & LLM auditing. I am also interested in combining the aforementioned methods with other causal inference and computational techniques.

My publications, working papers and work in progress can be found on my personal website.

Teaching

I currently teach undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in comparative politics and research methods at VU. Beyond the university, I also teach advanced methods at international summer schools, including the ECPR Methods School, where I received the Cora Maas Award for Best Course, the Summer School in Social Science Methods, Lugano, and the IPSA Summer School.

I would be interested in supervising students who work on comparative politics, political behaviour and political economy (broadly defined) using quantitative/experimental methods. Area focus could be advanced industrial democracies, the European Union and authoritarian regimes. Cross-regime comparative investigation and purely methodological work are also welcome.

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