Meina Cai is an associate professor of political science and Asian/Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests lie in the political economy of development in transition economies. Her current research focuses on land property rights, public finance, rural governance and development in China. She received her Ph.D. in political science and M.Sc in agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to joining UConn, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Her publications appear in World Development, Journal of Peasant Studies, Environmental Research, Urban Studies, Land Use Policy, among others.
Meina Cai
Non-Resident Scholar
