Steven Liao

Steven Liao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside, and a Non-resident Scholar at the 21st Century China Center, University of California, San Diego. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University.

Education:
Ph.D. in Politics from University of Virginia (2015)
B.A. in Political Science, Economics, and Diplomacy from National Chengchi University, Taiwan (2008)

Research Focus:
Specializes in international political economy and political methodology, using large-scale administrative data to study globalization dynamics. Key research areas include:

• Firm influence on immigration policy
• Politics of foreign real estate investments
• Big data applications in trade relationships
• Chinese currency internationalization

Publications:
Research spans globalization economics, political behavior, and international policy, with works appearing in premier journals including Nature Human Behaviour, American Journal of Political Science, and International Studies Quarterly. Recent publications explore foreign investment impacts on voting behavior and visa policy influences.

Software Development:

• concordance: Product Concordance (CRAN 2020)
• dynCluster: Dynamic Clustering Algorithm (GitHub)

Teaching:
Graduate courses: Political Economy of International Trade (POSC 214), Political Economy of International Migration (POSC 218)
Undergraduate courses: Globalization and Underdevelopment (POSC 160S), Political Economy of International Migration (POSC 136S), Politics and Economic Policy (POSC 182F)