Shengqiao Lin
shengqiao.lin@utoronto.ca
Biography
Shengqiao Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He previously served as an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and an Industrial Policy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin, and M.A. and B.A. degrees from Tsinghua University. His research interests include political economy, state-business relations, regulation, industrial policy, economic statecraft, and China.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- 2026Enforcing Discipline in China: Countering Internal Misinformation with Public DisclosureFull text World DevelopmentDOI
- 2026Political Backlash of Economic Sanctions: Evidence from Beijing’s Restriction on Cross-Strait TourismFull text Journal of Peace ResearchDOI
- 2026Who Shakes More: Multinational Corporations’ Trade Responses to Political TensionFull text International Studies QuarterlyDOI
- 2025Addressing Risk by Doing Good: Business Response to Government Policy InitiativeFull text Journal of PoliticsDOI
- 2024Service Motivation under Political Pressure: Exploring Chinese Local Cadres’ ResponsivenessFull text Asian SurveyDOI
- 2023Urban Chinese Support for Armed Unification with Taiwan: Social Status, National Pride, and Understanding of TaiwanFull text Journal of Contemporary ChinaDOI
- 2021Dividing without Conquering: Generation, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Taiwan’s 2016 Presidential ElectionFull text Issues & StudiesDOI
Preprints
- 2026When Firms Wave the Flag: Corporate Nationalist Rhetoric as Geopolitical Risk ManagementFull text SSRN Electronic JournalDOI
- 2025State Ownership and Corporate Compliance: Evidence from China's Cybersecurity LawFull text SSRN Electronic JournalDOI
- 2025Fiscal Origin of Selective Enforcement: Evidence from China's Administrative PenaltiesFull text SSRN Electronic JournalDOI
- 2025Partnership as Assurance: Regulatory Risk and State-Business Equity Ties in ChinaFull text Academy of Management ProceedingsLinkDOI
Education and Experience
- 2025–PresentAssistant Professor, Department of Political ScienceUniversity of Toronto
- 2024–2025An Wang Postdo Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Industrial Policy Postdoc Fellow, Kennedy School of GovernmentHarvard University
- 2024Ph.D., GovernmentUniversity of Texas at Austin
- 2018Master's, Public Policy and ManagementTsinghua University
- 2015Bachelor's, Chinese Language and LiteratureTsinghua University