Lucy (Quanxin) Yang
Position title: Ph.D. Student: Political Theory | Comparative Politics
Email: qyang283@wisc.edu
Research Interests
Democratic theory, Decentralization, Science and technology studies, Cybernetics
Biography
Lucy Quanxin Yang (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. student in political theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is mainly interested in the intersection between democratic theory and modern science and technology. Her dissertation, “decentralization before blockchain,” explores the “co-production” of pro-democracy visions of decentralization and various scientific paradigms from the industrial age to the information age.
Prior to studying at UW-Madison, she received an M.A. in philosophy from Renmin University of China (2022) and a B.A. in economics from Shanghai International Studies University (2019).
Conference
University of Notre Dame, Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government, Graduate Conference in Political Theory and Constitutional Studies, May 2024
“Fugitive Sovereignty: On the Specter of Schmitt in Wolin’s Theory of Democracy”