Ms Vanesa Pesque Cela
BA (Barcelona) MSc (London)
Overview
Department of Financial & Management Studies (DeFiMS)
Senior Teaching Fellow
- Name:
- Ms Vanesa Pesque Cela
- Email address:
- vc6@soas.ac.uk
- Year of Study:
- 2006 Entry
Internal Supervisors
Biography
Public goods provision, public finance, social organizations, state-society relations, political attitudes and behaviour, local governance, rural development, Chinese rural economy, society and politics.
PhD Research
This research pursues two main objectives:
- to identify the socio-political and economic factors underlying the rise of both government-controlled and self-governing social organizations in China´s rural areas in recent years, and
- to determine the impact that Chinese villagers´ participation in rural associational life has on the provision of public goods and services within their communities.
PhD Publications
Pesqué-Cela, Vanesa, Tao, Ran, Liu, Yongdong and Laixiang Sun (2008) “Challenging, Complementing or Assuming `the Mandate of Heaven´? Political Distrust and the Rise of Self-Governing Social Organizations in Rural China”. Journal of Comparative Economics. (In Press).
