Jialin Liang
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Jialin is a PhD candidate studying political theory at Yale University. His dissertation project “Keeping Room for Conventions: Whigs, Liberals, and Novelists of Manners” examines British political thought of the 18th and 19th centuries, tracing the intertwined relationship, in theory and practice, between liberal constitutionalism and conventionally established social and political norms. In addition to political and constitutional writings, it examines this relationship by interrogating the exchanges between literature and political thought in this period. By bringing historical and literary sources into play, this project aims to contribute to remedying the longstanding neglect by contemporary liberal theorists to address the ambiguous status of conventionally established norms in liberal and liberalizing states.
Jialin holds a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Carleton College and an MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago. His MA thesis on Benjamin Constant’s literary-political thought won the Wilson Carey McWilliams Best Paper Award at the APSA 2024 annual meeting
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Interests:
- Political Theory
- Comparative Politics