Expertise

Chinese politics; politics of urban and regional development; intergovernmental relations; metropolitan governance; comparative political economy of development

At the Keough School

Kyle A. Jaros is associate professor of global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He is a faculty fellow of the Keough School’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.

Courses

• The Political Economy of East Asian Development (undergraduate course)
• Cities, States and Global Governance (elective for master of global affairs)
• East Asia’s Global Cities (elective for undergraduate program in Asian studies)

Research and Publications

Jaros’s research explores the politics of regional development, central-local relations, and metropolitan governance with a focus on China. His first book, China’s Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development (Princeton University Press, 2019) examines the policy logics and political factors driving uneven development in China’s provinces. His research on China’s subnational development and central-local relations has also appeared in leading China studies and social science journals such as The China Journal, The China Quarterly, Modern China, Politics & Society, and Studies in Comparative International Development. Jaros is currently at work on a second book project that examines changes in the structure and workings of China’s big-city governments to understand the evolution of the party-state system under Xi Jinping. He also is currently a fellow in the National Committee on US-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program (2021-23).

In the Media

• Federal anti-China sentiment is increasingly seeping into state laws (The Hill)
• Rokita, Desantis-type comments on Chinese influence are politics. We need policy. (Indianapolis Star)
• China’s year of crackdowns: Party first, business second (Al Jazeera)

Biography

Jaros holds a concurrent appointment in Notre Dame’s Department of Political Science. Before coming to Notre Dame, he was associate professor in the political economy of China at the University of Oxford’s School of Global and Area Studies and held a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Ash Center of the Harvard Kennedy School. Jaros earned a PhD and MA in political science from the Department of Government at Harvard University, and an AB in public and international affairs and a certificate in Chinese language and culture from Princeton University. He also holds a graduate certificate in Chinese studies from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies.

News and Blog Posts

• Notre Dame experts consider the recent attention toward Taiwan and its impact on US-China relations (Notre Dame News)
• Overcoming metropolitan bias: prospects for a new urban paradigm (Dignity & Development)