Lily L. Tsai

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lily L. Tsai is the Ford Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Director and Founder of the MIT Governance Lab, and the Chair of the MIT Faculty. She is the author of When People Want Punishment: Retributive Justice and the Puzzle of Authoritarian Popularity (2021) and Accountability without Democracy: Solidarity Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China (2007).