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Guoer Liu | Monopolizing Transparency: Engineering Automated Air Quality Data in China

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Lecture

Mon, Dec 1, 2025

4:30 PM – 6 PM EST (GMT-5)

Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

Details

Government deployment of automated monitoring networks — sensors that collect and disseminate public data — is widely celebrated as a technological solution for transparency and accountability. Yet these technologies depend on physical infrastructure that, once installed, becomes largely fixed while political priorities often change. Guoer Liu argues that this strategic tension incentivizes infrastructure designs that filter unfavorable information from the outset, allowing both politicians and implementing agencies to hedge uncertainty.

Where

Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

Speakers

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Guoer Liu

Assistant Professor of Political Science

University of California San Diego

Guoer Liu is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California San Diego. She is affiliated with the 21st Century China Center at UCSD and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science and Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan in 2024. Her research interests include digital governance, authoritarian transparency, and environmental politics. She also conducts research in political methodology, with a focus on causal inference and survey experiments.

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Center on Contemporary China (OWNER)