Yumin Sheng is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at McGill University. His research interests include globalization and domestic politics, federalism and decentralization, and regional political representation and resource redistribution under authoritarianism, with a focus on contemporary China. His recent work has also appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, China Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Contemporary China, and Studies in Comparative International Development. He previously taught at Wayne State University and was a Visiting Research F...