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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: yuenang@umich.edu Website: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/yy-ang/

Office: 734-936-0089

APPOINTMENTS University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Department of Political Science. Associate Professor. 2017-present

• Faculty Associate, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies (LRCCS) • Faculty Associate, Center for the Study of Complex Systems • Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Department of Political Science. Assistant Professor. 2011-2016 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 PUBLICATIONS Book 2016. How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. Cornell University Press, Cornell Studies in Political

Economy. Winner of 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for “outstanding first book in international

relations, comparative politics, or political economy” Named by Foreign Affairs as “Best Books of 2017” Reviews: [Development] World Bank Development Blog (reprinted in Global Policy), Foreign

Affairs, Building State Capability Blog (Harvard Kennedy School), Governance, Oxfam, Iterative Adaptation Blog, LSE Review of Books; [Political Science] Perspectives on Politics; [Economics] Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Literature; [Media] The Straits Times; [Chinese outlets] 澎湃 The Paper

Blogged by: Global Integrity, From Poverty to Power, Cultivating Leadership

Journal Articles Forthcoming. “Domestic Flying Geese: Industrial Transfer and Delayed Policy Diffusion in China.” The China Quarterly.

Also appeared as Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Working Paper No. 762 2017. “Beyond Weber: Conceptualizing an Alternative Ideal-Type of Bureaucracy in Developing

Contexts.” Regulation & Governance, Vol 11 (3), pp. 282-298. 2016. “Co-optation & Clientelism: Nested Distributive Politics in China’s Single-Party Dictatorship,”

Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol 51(3), pp. 235-256. 2014. “Authoritarian Restraints on Online Activism Revisited: Why ‘I-Paid-A-Bribe’ Worked in India

but Failed in China,” Comparative Politics, Vol 47 (1), pp. 21-40

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2014. “Perverse Complementarity: Political Connections and the Use of Courts Among Private Firms in China” (with Nan JIA), The Journal of Politics, Vol 76 (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 Translated into Chinese and reprinted in Yanjiu Baogao (Peking University, 2014) Reprinted in Critical Readings on the Communist Party of China (Brill, 2016)

2009. “Centralizing Treasury Management in China: The Rationale of the Central Reformers,” Public

Administration & Development, Vol 29(4): 263-73 2005. “When Peasants Sue En Masse: Large Scale Collective Administrative Litigation in Rural

China,” China: An International Journal, Vol 3(1): 24-49 Volume chapters 2018. “Directed Improvisation in Administrative Financing.” In Zouping Revisited: Adaptive

Governance in a Chinese County, edited by Jean Oi and Steve Goldstein. Stanford University Press.

2017. “Do Weberian Bureaucracies Lead to Markets or Vice Versa? A Coevolutionary Approach to

Development,” In States in the Developing World, edited by Atul Kohli, Deborah Yashar & Miguel Centeno, Cambridge University Press.

Peer-reviewed, prize-winning essay 2014. “Making Details Matter: How to Reform Aid Agencies to Generate Contextual Knowledge.”

Winner of global essay contest on development assistance, sponsored by the Gates Foundation.

Jury of leading development experts selected 13 winners from 1,470 submissions worldwide through a multi-stage process; invited talks at Brookings and Center for Global Development.

Invited for submission at Stanford Social Innovation Review. WORK IN PROGRESS New projects “China’s Gilded Age: Explaining the Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption” (funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation) “Combining Big Data & Thick Data to Improve Services Delivery (funded by IBM Center for the Business of Government) “Measuring Policy Ambiguity in China Using Machine Learning” (with seed grant from LRCCS) Working paper on SSRN “China’s Unusual Development Lesson for Africa: Harnessing Normatively Weak Institutions to Build Markets” PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT To communicate my research to a broad audience, I have written op-eds and blogs for The International Herald Tribune, Project Syndicate, Wall Street Journal, Devex, The Conversation, World Bank Blog, Brookings Future Development Blog, China Policy Institute, Straits Times, South China Morning Post, Ideas for Development, Public Administration Review. Below is a selection of my recent commentaries.

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Editorials 2017. “Which comes first in development: good governance or economic growth? (Spoiler: it’s

neither).” November 2. World Bank, Governance for Development Blog. 2017. “Why China can’t fix its environment simply by adjusting targets,” Public Administration

Review, Blog Symposium on Climate Change & Public Administration, July 21. (Reprinted in Frontera News, Straits Times)

2017. “Interprovince investment revives China’s growth rate,” Wall Street Journal, July 18. 2016. “With its corruption crackdown, China is also stamping out innovation,” The Conversation,

November 7. (Reprinted in Harvard Economics Review) 2016. “Ending poverty: What should we learn and not learn from China,” Brookings Future

Development Blog, November 7. (Reprinted in Straits Times, China Policy Institute). Fellowship Named Public Intellectual Fellow by the National Committee of US-China Relations (2016-18) Nominated to attend The Op-Ed Project, University of Michigan, 20 nominees each year (2018) BOOK REVIEWS 2017. Review of “China’s Governance Puzzle: Transparency and Participation in a Single Party-

State,” by Edmund Malesky et al, Foreign Affairs 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. AWARDS & GRANTS Awards & Fellowships 2017 Smith Richardson Foundation, Research Grant ($100,000), “China’s Gilded Age:

Explaining the Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption.” 2017 IBM Center for the Business of Government, Research Award ($20,000), “Combining

big data and thick data to improve services delivery.” 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for “best first book in international relations,

comparative politics, or political economy” 2017-19 National Committee of U.S.-China Relations, Fellow of the Public Intellectuals

Program (20 fellows selected each year) 2016-17 East Asia Institute (Seoul), Fellow of “Program on Peace, Governance, and

Development in East Asia” (6 fellows selected to deliver five talks across Asia) 2014 Department of Political Science, Eldersveld Prize for Outstanding Research

Contributions (awarded to one faculty every two years) 2014 Winner of Next Horizons 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, project on corruption 2012 Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation, Research Grant, 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 each

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year) 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

each year) 2007 The 1990 Institute/Overseas Young Chinese Foundation, Research grant University Grants 2017 Center for Political Studies, Faculty Investment Program, Proposal development grant 2015 Office of Research and Department of Political Science, Book subvention grant

competition 2014 Center for Chinese Studies, Faculty Research Grant, for project on target-setting 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 Since 2008, I have delivered more than 70 invited talks in multiple countries and at a variety of forums: political science, global development, public policy, China studies, and research methods. Global Development

Overseas Development Institute: Panel on politics of development, Feb 9, 2018. OECD Development Center: Experts’ meeting on Centre’s flagship publication Perspectives

on Global Development 2019, Paris, Feb 8, 2018 OECD Development Center: Development Talk Series, Paris, Feb 8, 2018 British Academy/DFID Anti-Corruption Program: Workshop on “Rethinking Corruption in the

21st Century.” Washington D.C. December 11, 2017. Brookings, Global Economy & Development Program, with World Vision: Round-table on

Institutions Building in Fragile States, November 9, 2017. World Bank: Conference on Innovating Bureaucracy, Invited presentation on “The Political

Economy of Bureaucratic Reforms,” November 8-9, 2017 World Resources Institute: Seminar on how excessive targets in China affects its

implementation of climate action goals, October 13, 2017. Global Integrity: Discussion with Board Members, September 15, 2017. Global Integrity & Open Gov Hub: Book talk, Washington DC, September 14, 2017. United Nations Development Programme: Global Centre for Public Service Excellence,

Singapore. May 24, 2017. International Finance Corporation (part of World Bank Group), Singapore: May 23, 2017 United Nations: UN Expert Group Meeting on Strategies for Eradicating Poverty to Achieve

Sustainable Development Goals, New York, May 8-11, 2017. World Bank, Malaysia: Conference on “Enhancing the Quality of Services Delivery,”

Organized by Michael Woolcock, January 16-17, 2017.

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World Bank, Washington D.C.: Book talk of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, organized by Yongmei Zhou (Co-Director of World Development Report 2017), December 8, 2016.

Center for Global Development: Public panel on “What Should Tomorrow’s Aid Agency Look Like?,” June 21, 2016.

Brookings Institution and Global Development Network: Roundtable on “Institutional Change in the Aid Sector,” June 20, 2016.

Asian Development Bank Institute: Conference on “Escaping the Middle-Income Trap,” Tokyo, Japan (discussant), 2015.

Asian Development Bank Institute: Conference on “The Impact of a Possible Growth Slowdown in the PRC on Asia,” Tokyo, Japan (presenter), 2015.

China & Global Development

China Centre for International Knowledge on Development (CIKD), think-tank within State Council & launched by Chinese president Xi Jinping at UN Submit in 2015: Book talk to members of CIKD and DRC (Development Research Council) of State Council, November 20, 2017.

Keynote Address at International Seminar on China’s Development Experiences: Co-0rganized by CIKD and DFID (U.K. Department of International Development), Book talk followed by comments from representatives of bilateral & multi-lateral organizations in China (DFID, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNICEF), November 21, 2017.

CIKD: Seminar on comparative research methods for CIKD research staff, November 21, 2017.

World Learning: Book seminar with think-tank leaders and officials from China on learning trip, organized by U.S. State Department, September 15, 2017.

University of Michigan: Africa-China Conference on Infrastructure, Resource Extraction and Environmental Sustainability, April 6-7, 2017.

Social Sciences

• Notre Dame University: Kellogg Institute Lecture Series, March 6, 2018 • University of Arizona, Tucson: Second Annual Southwest Mixed-Methods Research

Workshop, October 20-21, 2016. • Harvard University: Weatherhead Center for International Studies & Department of

Government, Comparative Politics Speaker Series, September 14, 2016. • Brown University: Department of Sociology & Watson Institute, Workshop on “Going Beyond

Governance,” March 18-19, 2016. • Johns Hopkins University: Department of Political Science, 2015. • University of Michigan: Department of Political Science, Eldersveld Prize Lecture, “Does

State Capacity Lead to Markets or Vice Versa?” 2015. • Princeton University: Development & Democracy Seminar Series. 2014. • Princeton University: Princeton Network on State-Building in Developing World, Oxford;

concluding workshop for edited volume, States in the Developing World (Cambridge, 2016), 2013.

• Princeton University: Princeton Network on State-Building in Developing World, Workshop in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2012.

• University of Michigan: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Conference on “How Autocracies Work,” 2011.

• Princeton University: Princeton Network on State-Building in Developing World, Workshop in New Delhi, India. 2011.

• University of Michigan: Department of Political Science. 2011. • McGill University: Department of Political Science, 2008.

Policy Schools & Programs

Toronto University: Munk School of Global Affairs, Book launch & panel on China’s economic future, January 12, 2018. [to be rescheduled]

Tsinghua University (China): School of Public Policy & Management, June 1, 2017. Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy (Singapore). Book launch. May 25, 2017.

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Harvard Kennedy School: MPA-International Development Speaker Series, April 18 2017 Johns Hopkins, SAIS: Research Workshop on Implementation, October 7, 2016. Johns Hopkins, SAIS: Seminar on International Political Economy, October 6, 2016. Stanford University & National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC): Joint

Conference on “The Challenges of China’s Urbanization,” Guangzhou, China. 2013. Stanford University: Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL), Sonoma

Conference on Assessing the Quality of Governance in China, 2012. Stanford University: CDDRL, Project on Governance Speaker Series, 2012. Columbia University: School of International and Public Affairs, 2008.

China & Asian Studies

Southern Methodist University: Tower Center for Political Studies, public lecture, October 30, 2017.

East Asia Institute (Korea): EAI Fellow Speaker Series, June 8, 2017. Peking University (China): EAI Fellow Speaker Series, May 31, 2017. Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Institute of Political Science: Book talk, May 5, 2017. National Taiwan University (Taiwan): Department of Political Science, EAI Fellow Speaker

Series, May 4, 2017 Fudan University (China): Department of Economics Research Seminar, April 27, 2017 Fudan University (China): Center for American Studies, EAI Fellow Speaker Series, April 25,

2017 University of California, Irvine: Long U.S.-China Institute, Public book lecture, February 24;

profiled in series on “prominent and emerging China scholars.” 2017. University of California, Irvine: Long U.S.-China Institute, Colloquium on Justice and

Development, February 23, 2017. National Committee of US-China Relations: Book Launch, New York City, February 22,

2017. National Committee of US-China Relations: PIP (Public Intellectuals Program) V Workshop,

Washington DC, February 5, 2017. University of British Columbia: Center for Chinese Research, Lecture Series, October 14,

2016. George Washington University: Sigur Center for Asian Studies, October 4, 2016. Zhejiang University (China): School of Public Affairs, “China Studies in the U.S.” 2015. Stanford University: APARC China Program, New Approaches to China Lecture Series. 2014. National Chengchi University (Taiwan): Department of Political Science. 2013. National Chengchi University (Taiwan): Institute of International Studies, 42nd Taiwan-

American Conference on Contemporary China. 2013. Hong Kong University of Science & Technology: Symposium on “Economic Governance in

China and the Developing World.” 2013. University of Pittsburg: Asian Studies Center, Conference on “Chinese Local Governance:

Innovation and Reform,” 2012. Leiden University (Netherlands): Asian Modernities & Tradition Workshop, 2012. Stanford University: China Social Science Workshop Speaker Series, 2012. Southern Methodist University and Keio University: Joint Conference on “Political

Participation in China, 2012. University of Michigan: Center for Chinese Studies 50th Anniversary Conference to Honor

Kenneth Lieberthal, 2011. Hong Kong University of Science & Technology: Division of Social Sciences, 2008.

Others

Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore), Corporate Associates Breakfast Talk, May 29, 2017. University of Michigan Alumni Singapore: Fireside chat, “Does Singapore have a

competitive advantage in smart-ness?”, May 24, 2017 University of Michigan: Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Speaker Series. February

14. University of Michigan: Department of Political Science, Advisory Board Meeting, Joint

presentation with Nicole Wu (PhD Student, Political Science), 2015.

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EVENTS “China’s Impact on Global Development & Conflict.” Public Panel, Institute for Peace Studies, Washington DC, jointly organized with Jennifer Stats. December 2017. “Building State Capacity in China & Beyond.” UM Center for Chinese Studies Annual Conference, October 17-18, 2014 “How China Escaped the Poverty Trap,” Book Workshop at UM, November 7, 2013 Accountability & Corruption in Developing Countries, Mini Workshop, UM, March 2013 “What Keeps Chinese Officials in Check If At All?” Public Panel, UM, with Mayling Birney and Daniela Stockmann. March 2013 TEACHING Undergraduate courses

Development and Governance, UM (upper-level seminar) State & Market in Contemporary China, UM (lecture course)

Graduate courses for M.A. students

Politics & Institutions in Developing Countries, Columbia SIPA (required for MPA students majoring in economic and political development)

Social Sciences in Historical and Contemporary China, UM (required for M.A. students in Chinese Studies)

Comparative Politics and Reform China, UM & Columbia SIPA Graduate courses for PhD students

Seminar on Chinese Politics & Political Economy, UM Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research, UM

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, and award nominations)

Comparative politics search committee, 2013 Undergraduate teaching committee, 2014-15, 2017-18 Co-organizer (with Ted Brader), Rubin lecture series on “Migration & Immigration,” 2016-

17 Invited speakers for the Comparative Politics Workshop and Junior Faculty Speaker Series

Center for Chinese Studies

Member of executive committee, 2014-15, 2016-18 (deliberated and voted on applications, proposals, and programs)

Invited more than 20 speakers for noon lecture & research seminar series since 2011 Graduate Admissions

Faculty committee member, UM Department of Political Science, 2012-13, 2016-17 Faculty reviewer of applications to MPA program, Columbia SIPA, 2010-11 Student committee member, Stanford Department of Political Science, 2003-4

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Others

Faculty Advisor, Knight Wallace Program (fellowship program for mid-career journalists), 2013-4, 2018-19

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Service to development policy Member of United Nations Expert Group on Eradicating Poverty, 2017

Attended annual meeting and contributed recommendations to General Secretariat Report. I emphasized the importance of adaptation in poverty eradication, especially the use of local/indigenous institutions and non-best practices to kick-start development.

Service to the discipline Advisory board member, Cambridge University Press, Elements Series on The Politics of Development Nominating Committee, American Political Science Association (APSA), Political Economy Section, 2016 Award Committee, APSA Political Economy Section, Mancur Olson Dissertation Award, 2017 Referee service Journals: American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Governance, Journal of Peasant Studies, Law and Society Review, Public Choice, Regulation & Governance, Sage Open, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Development, World Politics Journals—China studies: China: An International Journal, China Information, Issues & Studies, Modern China, The China Quarterly Press: Cambridge University Press