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YUEN YUEN ANG
University of Michigan Ann Arbor Department of Political Science 7719 Haven Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045
Email: [email protected] Office: 734-936-0089
APPOINTMENTS
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Department of Political Science. Assistant Professor. 2011-Present
Faculty Associate, Center for Chinese Studies Faculty Associate, Center for South East Asian Studies Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies
Columbia University. School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA). Assistant Professor. 2010- 2011
EDUCATION
Stanford University. M.A., 2003, Ph.D. in Political Science, 2010 Colorado College. B.A. in Political Science, 2002, graduated Summa Cum Laude
BOOK
Forthcoming (2016), How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, Cornell University Press, Cornell Studies in Political Economy Recent book presentations:
Stanford University, APARC China Program, October 2014 University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, Annual Conference, October 2014 Princeton University, Seminar on Democracy and Development, December 2014 University of Michigan, Department of Political Science, Eldersveld Prize Lecture, January 2015 Johns Hopkins University, Department of Political Science, December 2015 Brown University, Watson Institute of International Studies, March 2016
ARTICLES
2016. “Beyond Weber: Conceptualizing an Alternative Ideal Type of Bureaucracy in Developing Contexts,”
Regulation & Governance, doi: 10.1111/rego.12123. 2016. “Co-optation & Clientelism: Nested Distributive Politics in China’s Single-Party Dictatorship,”
Studies in Comparative International Development, DOI 10.1007/s12116-015-9208-0 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 the Use of Courts Among Private Firms in
China” (with Nan JIA), The Journal of Politics, Volume 76, Issue 2, pp. 318-332 2012. “Counting Cadres: A Comparative View of the Size of China’s Public Employment,” The China
Quarterly, Volume 211: 676-696
2009. “Centralizing Treasury Management in China: The Rationale of the Central Reformers,” Public Administration & Development, 29(4): 263-73
2005. “When Peasants Sue En Masse: Large Scale Collective Administrative Litigation in Rural China,”
China: An International Journal, 3(1): 24-49
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CHAPTER
2016. “Do Weberian Bureaucracies Lead to Markets or Vice Versa? A Coevolutionary Approach to
Development, States in the Developing World, edited by Miguel Centeno, Atul Kohli & Deborah Yashar, Cambridge University Press.
OTHER WRITING
Prize-winning essay 2014. “Making Details Matter: How to Reform Aid Agencies to Generate Contextual Knowledge,” Winner of
the GDN Essay Contest on the Future of Development Assistance. Sponsored by the Gates Foundation; an international jury selected 13 winning essays from 1,470
submissions worldwide Short essays and memos 2016. “A Hammer is Not a Second-Best Screwdriver: The Case for Varieties of ‘Good’ Bureaucracy,” Memo
presented at Workshop on Going Beyond Governance, Brown University, Watson Institute. 2015. “Crafting Institutions for Localized Aid,” Invited blog post, Ideas for Development (hosted by the
French Development Agency). 2015. “Which Comes First in Development—State Capacity or Economic Growth?,” The Political
Economist, Newsletter of the Political Economy Section of American Political Science Association. 2012. “Developmental or Predatory? Understanding the State’s Paradoxical Economic Role in Local China,”
International Institute Journal, University of Michigan. Book Reviews 2012. Review of “China’s Local Public Finance in Transition,” by Joyce Yanyun Man & Yu-Hung Hong, The
China Quarterly, 208: 1028-1030. 2006. Review of “Corruption and Market in Contemporary China,” by Sun Yan, Review of Politics 68(1):
152-155.
SELECTED AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
International & National 2014 Winner of the GDN Essay Contest on “The Future of Development Assistance,” Global
Development Network in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ($20,000 award)
2014 Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation, Research grant for project on corruption 2012 Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation, Research grant for project on budgets and bureaucratic
compensation 2009 American Political Science Association, Paul A. Volcker junior scholar research grant, to
create dataset on bureaucratic compensation using line-item budgets 2009-10 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS, Doctoral recipient fellowship (25 awards) 2009-10 Indiana University, Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business, Post-doctoral
fellowship (declined) 2009-10 University of Southern California, U.S.-China Institute, Post-doctoral fellowship (declined) 2008-09 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS, Dissertation completion fellowship (65 awards) 2007 The 1990 Institute/Overseas Young Chinese Foundation, Research grant University of Michigan 2015 Office of Research and Department of Political Science, Book subvention grant 2014 Department of Political Science, Eldersveld prize for outstanding research contributions
(awarded to one junior faculty every two years) 2014 Center for Chinese Studies, Faculty research grant, for project on target-setting
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2014 Center for Chinese Studies, Annual conference grant 2013 Office of Research, Preliminary project grant, for project on corruption 2012 International Studies Institute, International development fellowship, for development of
new course, “Development & Governance” 2012 Center for International Business, Faculty research grant, for project on regulatory
discrimination (with Xiaojun Li) 2012 Center for Chinese Studies, Faculty research grant, for book manuscript Undergraduate 2002 Colorado College, Edith Bramhall Award for best thesis in political science (“More Than
Kings and Less than Men: Tocqueville on the Danger of Despotism in Democratic Social States”)
2002 Colorado College, Cronin leadership essay award 1999-2002 Colorado College, International full scholarship (2 awards each year)
INVITED TALKS & PRESENTATIONS
2016 University of Arizona, Tucson: Second Annual Southwest Mixed-Methods Research Workshop, October
20-21. Center for Global Development: Public panel on “What Should Tomorrow’s Aid Agency Look Like?,”
Washington D.C., June 21 Brookings Institution and Global Development Network: Roundtable on “Institutional Change in the Aid
Sector,” June 20 Brown University: Department of Sociology & Watson Institute, Workshop on “Going Beyond
Governance,” March 18-19 2015 Johns Hopkins University: Department of Political Science Asian Development Bank Institute: Conference on “Escaping the Middle-Income Trap,” Tokyo, Japan
(discussant) Asian Development Bank Institute: Conference on “The Impact of a Possible Growth Slowdown in the PRC
on Asia,” Tokyo, Japan (presenter) University of Michigan: Department of Political Science, Advisory Board Meeting, Joint presentation with
Nicole Wu (PhD Student, Political Science) University of Michigan: Department of Political Science, Eldersveld Prize Lecture, “Does State Capacity
Lead to Markets or Vice Versa?” Zhejiang University (China): School of Public Affairs, “China Studies in the U.S.” 2014 Princeton University: Development & Democracy Seminar Series Stanford University: APARC China Program, New Approaches to China Lecture Series Renmin University (China): 7th U.S-Sino International Conference on Public Administration 2013 National Chengchi University (Taiwan): Department of Political Science National Chengchi University (Taiwan): Institute of International Studies, 42nd Taiwan-American
Conference on Contemporary China Hong Kong University of Science & Technology: Symposium on “Economic Governance in China and the
Developing World” Princeton University: Princeton Network on State-Building in Developing World, Oxford; concluding
workshop for edited volume, States in the Developing World (Cambridge, 2016) Guangxi Nationalities University (China): Invited lecture on “Doing Social Science” University of Michigan: International Institute, CICS Fellow Public Lecture, “Why Good Bureaucracies
Aren’t Always the Best” Stanford University and China’s National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC): Joint Conference
on “Challenges of China’s Urbanization,” Guangzhou, China
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2012 University of Pittsburg: Asian Studies Center, Conference on “Chinese Local Governance: Innovation and
Reform” Stanford University: Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL), Sonoma Conference
on Assessing the Quality of Governance in China Stanford University: CDDRL, Project on Governance Speaker Series Leiden University (Netherlands): Asian Modernities & Tradition Workshop Princeton University: Princeton Network on State-Building in Developing World, Workshop in Sao Paulo,
Brazil Stanford University: China Social Science Workshop Speaker Series Southern Methodist University and Keio University: Joint Conference on “Political Participation in China” 2011 University of Michigan: Center for Chinese Studies 50th Anniversary Conference to honor Kenneth
Lieberthal University of Michigan: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Conference on “How Autocracies Work” Princeton University: Princeton Network on State-Building in Developing World, Workshop in New Delhi,
India University of Michigan: Department of Political Science 2008-09 Columbia University: School of International and Public Affairs Hong Kong University of Science & Technology: Division of Social Sciences McGill University: Department of Political Science
EVENTS AT UM
Center for Chinese Studies Annual Conference, “Building State Capacity in China & Beyond,” October 17-18, 2014 Book Workshop for How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, November 7, 2013 Mini Workshop, Accountability & Corruption in Developing Countries, March 2013 Public panel, “What Keeps Chinese Officials in Check If At All?,” March 2013 (with Mayling Birney and Daniela Stockmann)
FIELDWORK IN CHINA
For book and other research projects, since 2006
Conducted more than 300 interviews with state bureaucrats and businesses in coastal and inland provinces, in more than 30 party-state departments (finance, personnel management, taxation, commerce, organization, etc.), from township to central but primarily at the county level.
“Challenges of Urbanization in China” (with Stanford University and China’s National Development and Reform Commission), summer of 2012
Participated in team fieldwork in Chengdu City, Sichuan province, to study the dynamics and challenges of urbanization
“Zouping in Transition” (Organized by Jean Oi & Steve Goldstein), summer of 2011
Participated in team fieldwork in Zouping County, Shandong province
TEACHING
Undergraduate courses Development and Governance, UM (upper-level seminar) State & Market in Contemporary China, UM (lecture course with sections)
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Graduate courses Comparative Politics and Reform China, UM & Columbia SIPA Social Sciences in Historical and Contemporary China, UM (required for M.A. students in Chinese Studies) Qualitative and Mixed Research Methods, UM Politics & Institutions in Developing Countries, Columbia SIPA (required for MPA students majoring in
economic and political development) Short courses in China Social Science Research Methods (graduate), Southwest University of Finance & Economics (SWUFE),
June 2010 Bureaucracies (graduate), SWUFE, October 2007 Formal & Informal Institutions (undergraduate), SWUFE, June 2007
UNIVERSITY & DEPARTMENT SERVICES
UM Department of Political Science Elected member of executive committee, 2015-16 (deliberated and voted on various departmental issues, such as hiring, promotion, curriculum, award nominations) Member of undergraduate teaching committee, 2014-15 Center for Chinese Studies Member of executive committee, 2014-15, 2016-18 (deliberated and voted on applications, proposals, and programs) Faculty Search Comparative politics search committee, 2013 Graduate Admissions Faculty committee member, UM Department of Political Science, 2012-13 Faculty reviewer of applications to MPA program, Columbia SIPA, 2010-11 Student committee member, Stanford Department of Political Science, 2003-4
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Service to the discipline Nominating Committee, American Political Science Association, Political Economy Section, 2016 Referee service Journals: American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Governance, Journal of Peasant Studies, Regulation & Governance, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Development, World Politics Journals—China studies: China: An International Journal, China Information, Modern China, The China Quarterly Press: Cambridge University Press