The APSA Best Poster Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best poster presented by a graduate student or early career scholar at the previous APSA Annual Meeting.
Citation from the Award Committee:
Jerry Jie Min (Harvard University) has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 APSA Best Poster Award for his poster, “Left Governments Offer More Tax Incentives to Foreign Investors Through International Treaties.” Chosen from among over 200 eligible posters presented by graduate students and early-career scholars at the APSA Annual Meeting, Min’s poster exemplified excellence across all four of our evaluation criteria: clarity and organization; research quality and rigor; relevance and impact; and presentation and engagement. The poster was exceptionally well-structured, with a clear research question—whether left-leaning governments concede more taxing rights in bilateral tax treaties—framed in a timely and globally significant context. It featured a novel dataset coding over 4,000 treaties, a sophisticated empirical design with transparent, well-explained coding strategies. The poster’s visuals were clean, interpretable, and well-integrated with the narrative. This work offers important theoretical contributions to debates on globalization’s effect on the political left, articulating mechanisms like democratic obfuscation and investment attraction. The committee was especially impressed by the combination of innovative data collection, policy-relevant insight, and clear exposition.
Jerry Min is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and an A.M. candidate in Statistics at Harvard University. Working on International Political Economy, Jerry specializes in the politics of foreign direct investment, multinational corporations, international finance, and industrial policy. His current research centers on the interaction between foreign investment and state sovereignty. In his dissertation book project, he investigates how states enforce costly labor and environmental laws on foreign investors, specifically, under what conditions law enforcement favors or discriminates against foreign-invested firms relative to domestic firms. In other ongoing projects, Jerry examines how governments tax and regulate mobile capital, using tools such as tax treaties, capital controls, and financial regulations, and how nationality and nationalism shape these dynamics. Trained in both Comparative Politics and International Relations, Jerry has regional expertise in China and Japan, and has also conducted fieldwork in Indonesia and Vietnam to study foreign firms operating there.
APSA thanks the committee members for their service: Dr. Cameron Arnzen (Chair) of Brown University, Dr. Abigail Dym of Providence College, Enrique Quezada-Llanes of Agnes Scott College, Dr. Markie McBrayer of the University of Idaho, Dr. Steven Sylvester of Utah Valley University, and Dr. Prerna Singh of Brown University.