SIS’s Postdoctoral Fellow Zhang Xinyu Receives General Program Fund Supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

      On July 6th, 2020, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(CPSF) officially released the list of No. 67 General Program approved grantees. Zhang Xinyu，postdoctoral fellow of School of International Studies(SIS) was granted second-class fund for her project “The Development of Populist Parties in Latin America and Their Influence on State Governance”.

Zhang Xinyu is a postdoctoral fellow of SIS, SYSU. In 2019, she received a Doctor of Laws degree from the Institute of Latin American Studies (IAL) of China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). In 2017, she paid an academic visit to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill funded by the Joint PhD Program of China Scholarship Council. In 2015, she gained Master of Laws from IAL, CASS. In 2012, she graduated from the Department of Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, University of Havana, Cuba with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Her current research areas include international politics, comparative politics, Latin American politics, China-Latin America relations.

The abstract of her project titled “The Development of Populist Parties in Latin America and Their Influence on State Governance” is introduced below:

In the process of economic and social changes, populist parties emerge as a direct response to the economic and identity anxieties of common people. In Latin America, populist parties include both traditional parties and new types of parties. These parties are constantly changing their developmental policy, with internal division, the sign of decay and alliances between political parties appearing at the same time. They show strong regional characteristics compared with their counterparts in the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia. Their development is exerting a profound impact on Latin America’s political system, political culture, and state governance.