People: Research Faculty
Yuen Yuen Ang
Faculty Associate
Appointments
Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Faculty Associate, Center for Chinese Studies
Degree
Ph.D. 2010 Stanford University (Political Science)
Other
Yuen Yuen Ang’s Personal Website & CV
Yuen Yuen Ang’s Google Scholar Profile
Research
Yuen Yuen Ang is named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for “high-caliber scholarship that applies fresh perspectives to some of the most pressing issues of our times.” She is also the inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholars from the American Political Science Association. Her research examines the interaction between economics and politics from an adaptive perspective, with a focus on China. Visit her personal website at https://sites.google.com/view/
Contact
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
7719 Haven Hall, 505 South State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1045
Phone: 734–936–0089
Email: yuenang@umich.edu
University of Michigan Online Directory listing
Selected Publications
Please also see Yuen Yuen Ang’s Personal Website or Yuen Yuen Ang’s Google Scholar Profile.
Forthcoming. “Has China’s Economic Success Proven that Autocracy is Superior to Democracy?” In China Questions II: Critical Insights into US-China Relationship. Harvard University Press.
2020. “When COVID-19 Meets Centralized, Personalized Power.” Nature Human Behavior.
2020. China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. Cambridge University Press.
2016. How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. Cornell University Press. Cornell Studies in Political Economy.
2016. “Beyond Weber: Conceptualizing an Alternative Ideal Type of Bureaucracy in Developing Contexts,” Regulation & Governance.
2016. “Co-optation & Clientelism: Nested Distributive Politics in China’s Single-Party Dictatorship,” Studies in Comparative International Development, online first, pp. 1-22.
2014. Authoritarian Restraints on Online Activism Revisited: Why ‘I-Paid-A-Bribe’ Worked in India but Failed in China, Comparative Politics, Volume 47, Issue 1, pp. 21-40
2014. Perverse Complementarity: Political Connections and Use of Courts Among Chinese Firms (With Nan JIA), The Journal of Politics, Volume 76, Issue 2, pp. 318-332.
News
Yuen Yuen Ang Awarded Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholars
Yuen Yuen Ang Awarded the 2018 Zelizer Best Book Award in Economic Sociology
Yuen Yuen Ang Named Andrew Carnegie Fellow in 2018
Yuen Yuen Ang Awarded the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize
Yuen Yuen Ang’s book is named among Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017