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Meina Cai is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian/Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her work focuses on the political economy of transition economies, particularly China’s rural governance, land property rights, and public finance. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and an M.Sc. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to UConn, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
Her research examines topics such as land expropriation, distributive justice, climate policy, and institutional innovation in China. Key publications include analyses of land financing in Urban Studies, compensation mechanisms in Journal of Peasant Studies, and climate policy in Environmental Research. She has co-authored books on commons governance and property rights theories.
Dr. Cai’s work bridges political science, economics, and policy analysis. Her recent projects address blockchain applications in governance and the intersection of individualism with charitable giving. She teaches courses on political economy and China studies at UConn’s Storrs campus.
