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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] 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, Center for the Study of Complex Systems • Faculty Associate, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies (LRCCS) • Faculty Associate, Center for South East Asian Studies • Faculty Associate, African Studies Center
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 Visiting appointment S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. Senior Visiting Fellow. October 2018. EDUCATION Stanford University. M.A., 2003, Ph.D. in Political Science, 2010 Colorado College. B.A. in Political Science, 2002, graduated Summa Cum Laude 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 2018. 《中国如何跳出贫困圈套》(Chinese edition of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap). Chinese
University of Hong Kong Press & Sanlian Press. 2016. How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. Cornell University Press, Cornell Studies in Political
Economy. Winner of 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for “outstanding book in international
relations, comparative politics, or political economy” Winner of 2018 Viviana Zelizer Best Book Award in Economic Sociology, Awarded by the
American Sociological Association Named “Best Books of 2017” by Foreign Affairs Reviews: World Bank Development Blog, Foreign Affairs, Building State Capability Blog
(Harvard Kennedy School), Governance, LSE Review of Books, From Poverty to Power (Oxfam), Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Literature, The China Quarterly, Pacific Affairs, State Council-CIKD, The Straits Times
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Peer-reviewed Articles 2018. “Making Details Matter: From Agreeing to Go Local to Enabling Localization.” Stanford Social
Innovation Review | link Winner of global essay contest seeking “original and innovative thinking on development
assistance,” sponsored by the Gates Foundation & Global Development Network Eminent jury panel selected 13 winners from 1,470 submissions from 142 countries through
multi-stage, anonymized process
2018. “Domestic Flying Geese: Industrial Transfer and Delayed Policy Diffusion in China.” The China Quarterly, Vol. 234, pp. 420-443.
Also appeared as Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Working Paper No. 762 (2017) 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 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 Also appeared as CDDRL Working Paper No. 135
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.
Policy Articles Forthcoming. “Combining Big Data & Thick Data to Improve Services Delivery,” IBM Center for the
Study of Government, Research Report (funded by competitive grant from the IBM Center) 2018. “The Real China Model: It’s Not What You Think It is,” Foreign Affairs, June 29, 2018. 2018. “Autocracy with Chinese Characteristics: Beijing’s Behind-the-Scenes Reforms,” Foreign
Affairs, May/June issue (on Is Democracy Dying?), invited essay in print issue.
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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. WORK IN PROGRESS “China’s Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption”
- Supported by major grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation - Book workshop in November 2018
“Unlikely Successes: How Markets Emerge under Adverse Conditions”
- Awarded Andrew Carnegie Fellowship 2018 “Measuring Policy Ambiguity Using Automated Text Analysis” PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT I have written op-eds and blogs for Foreign Affairs, The International Herald Tribune, Project Syndicate, The Wall Street Journal, The Conversation, World Bank Governance Blog, UNDP Transformation Series, OECD Development Blog, Brookings Development Blog, Straits Times, South China Morning Post, among others. Below is a selection of my recent commentaries. On development and complexity 2018. “Three Fallacies of Embracing Complexity,” UNDP Transformation Series. | link 2018. “Normatively weak Institutions can be functionally strong: A surprising lesson from China.”
OECD Development Center, Development Matters Blog. | link 2017. “Which comes first in development: good governance or economic growth? (Spoiler: it’s
neither).” World Bank Governance for Development Blog | link On China and global politics 2018. “China’s Belt-and-Road is Not a Conspiracy, But a Campaign,” Bloomberg View, September
28. 2018. Invited response to “Will US-China relations permanently shrink?” The International Economy.
Spring 2018. | link 2018. Invited response to “Will China’s New Debt Diplomacy Strategy Reshape the World?” The
International Economy. Winter 2018. | link 2018. “2018: Critical moment for China to tell its story well.” Straits Times | link | Chinese 2017. “Why China can’t fix its environment simply by adjusting targets,” Public Administration
Review, Blog Symposium on Climate Change & Public Administration. | link 2016. “With its corruption crackdown, China is also stamping out innovation,” The Conversation |
link Reprinted as case study for instruction in Managing & Organization (Sage, 2016)
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Media coverage Research featured in BBC Radio 4, World Economic Forum, US-China Focus, Forbes, Jiemian界面
(China), Pengpai澎湃 (China), Xinhua (China), Bistandsaktuelt (Norway), Yorokobu (Spain), GloboNews (Brazil), Khmer Times (Cambodia), Cambodia Times, South China Morning Post (HK) Media mention in Project Syndicate, Quartz, Axios, Forbes, Straits Times (Singapore), The Citizen (India) Frequent contributor to Foreign Affairs’ “Ask the Experts,” The International Economy Blogged by Global Integrity (US), Cultivating Leadership (New Zealand), Iterative Adaptation (India) AWARDS & GRANTS Book Awards & Honors How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) 2018 Viviana Zelizer Best Book Award in Economic Sociology, Awarded by the American
Sociological Association 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for “outstanding book in international relations,
comparative politics, or political economy” 2017 Foreign Affairs “Best of Books 2017” Awards & Fellowships 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship 2018. Project title: “Unlikely Successes: How Markets
Emerge Under Adverse Conditions.” ($200,000) 2017 Smith Richardson Foundation, Research Grant ($100,000), “Explaining China’s
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.” 2017-19 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
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
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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 Keynote Lectures
University of Manchester: Global Development Institute, Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture, October 31, 2018.
Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore: Senior Visiting Fellow Lecture, “Autocracy with Democratic Characteristics: How the West Misread China,” October 2018.
United Nations—Cambodia: Keynote lecture, “The Real China Model: What Should Other Developing Countries Learn from China?”
o Discussants: H.E. Dr. Mey Kalyan (Senior Advisor to Supreme National Economic Council, Royal Government of Cambodia) & Mr. Haoliang Xu, (UNDP Regional Director for Asia-Pacific and Assistant Secretary-General)
o Event videos posted on UNDP website; press coverage in Khmer Times United Nations Development Program (UNDP)—Istanbul: Keynote Address, Istanbul
Development Dialogue, April 4, 2018. CIKD (Center for International Knowledge of Development, China) & DFID (U.K.
Department of International Development): Keynote Address, Joint Seminar on China’s Development & Poverty Reduction, Beijing, November 21, 2017.
o Discussants: representatives of bilateral & multi-lateral organizations in China (DFID, World Bank, ADB, UNDP)
Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore: Corporate Associates Talk, “The Role of Relations in US-China Relations,” May 29, 2017.
Global Development & Public Policy
Camden Conference: Annual Foreign Policy Conference, “Will this be China’s century”, Feb 22-24, 2019.
London School of Economics: Lecture Series in “Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking and Practice,” November 2018.
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change: Seminar and discussion, November 2018 United Nations Development Program (UNDP): Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting, Session on
Innovation, October 2018 Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore: Seminar, “Changing the
Conversation about the China Model,” October 2018.
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Center for Global Development: Working Group on Technology & Development, 1st meeting, July 16, 2018
World Bank—Washington DC: “States of Disruption: Rethinking Measures of Governance,” presented at session on rethinking corruption measures
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change: Policy breakfast with Mr. Blair to discuss trends in development policy in Africa (declined due to schedule constraints)
United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Istanbul: Keynote Address, Istanbul Development Dialogue, April 4, 2018.
UNDP—New York Headquarters: Innovation Conversation Series, “Three Fallacies of Embracing Complexity,” March 28, 2018
Harvard Kennedy School: MPA-International Development Speaker Series, March 25, 2018 Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI): Book talk, Oslo, Feb 15, 2018. Institute of Development Studies, UK: Seminar on Complexity & Development, Feb 13,
2018. DFID (UK Department of International Development): Seminar series, “Bureaucratic
reforms as political reforms”, Feb 12, 2018. Overseas Development Institute, UK: Panel on “Transformative Ideas in Economics,” with
Kunal Sen (UN-WIDER), Rachel Glennerster (DFID), Dirk Willem te Velde (ODI) & Tim Kelsall (ODI), 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. United States Institute of Peace (USIP): Panel on “China’s Impact on Global Development
& Conflict,” December 2017, Co-organized with Jennifer Staats Brookings (Global Economy & Development Program) & World Vision: Round-table on
Institutions Building in Fragile States, November 9, 2017. World Bank—Washington DC: 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: Book talk & discussion with board members, Washington DC, September
14, 2017. World Learning: Book seminar with think-tank leaders and officials from China on learning
trip, organized by U.S. State Department, Washington DC, September 15, 2017. UNDP, Singapore: Global Centre for Public Service Excellence, Singapore. May 24, 2017. International Finance Corporation—Singapore Office: Book talk, May 23, 2017 Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore: Book launch. May 25, 2017. United Nations—New York Headquarters: UN Expert Group Meeting on Strategies for
Eradicating Poverty to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals, New York, May 8-11, 2017. Harvard Kennedy School: MPA-International Development Speaker Series, April 18 2017 World Bank—Malaysia: Conference on “Enhancing the Quality of Services Delivery,”
Organized by Michael Woolcock, January 16-17, 2017. 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 & 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.
Social Sciences
• Ohio State University: Center for Historical Research, Department of History, Lecture Series on “Democracy in a Time of Change & Challenges,” 2019-2020 (TBD)
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• University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business: China Social Science Research Seminar, May 17-18, 2018.
• Princeton University: Institute for International & Regional Studies, “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Complex Systems: The Promise and Limits of Metaphor,” November 2018
• London School of Economics: Department of Political Science, Comparative Politics Seminar (declined due to schedule constraints)
• University of Manchester: Global Development Institute, Masterclass on research design to PhD students, November 1, 2018.
• Notre Dame University: Kellogg Institute of International Studies 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, SAIS: Research Workshop on Implementation, October 7, 2016. • Johns Hopkins, SAIS: Seminar on International Political Economy, October 6, 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.
China & Asian Studies
University of Chicago: East Asia Workshop on Politics, Economy & Society, May 2018 Stanford University: Conference on the “State of the Field in Chinese Politics.” December
14-15, 2018. Rutgers University: Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies, Panel on the China Model.
(declined due to schedule constraints) MIT Sloan Business School: Sloan China Seminar, October 2018 (declined due to schedule
constraints) Chinese University of Hong Kong: University Services Center, Lunch Seminar Series
(Launch of book’s Chinese edition), June 6, 2018 University of Toronto: Munk School of Global Affairs—Asia Institute, Book talk, March 8,
2018. Southern Methodist University: Tower Center for Political Studies, public lecture, October
30, 2017. East Asia Institute, Korea: EAI Fellow Speaker Series, June 8, 2017. Academia Sinica, Taiwan: Institute of Political Science, May 5, 2017. National Taiwan University, Taiwan: Department of Political Science, EAI Fellow Speaker
Series, May 4, 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.
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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. 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. 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. 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.
Talks in China
Center for International Knowledge on Development (CIKD): Book talk to members of CIKD and DRC (Development Research Council) of State Council, November 20, 2017.
International Seminar on China’s Development: Co-organized by CIKD and DFID, November 21, 2017.
CIKD: Seminar on comparative research methods for CIKD research staff, November 21, 2017.
Tsinghua University: School of Public Policy & Management, June 1, 2017. Fudan University: Department of Economics Research Seminar, April 27, 2017 Fudan University: Center for American Studies, EAI Fellow Speaker Series, April 25, 2017 Zhejiang University: School of Public Affairs, “China Studies in the U.S.” 2015. Stanford University & National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC): Joint
Conference on “The Challenges of China’s Urbanization,” Guangzhou, China. 2013. Others
Monetary Authority of Singapore: October 2018 Economic Dinner Group: “Behind the Controversy of the China Model,” Michigan,
September 17, 2018. Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong: “The Real China Model: It’s Not What You
Think It is,” August 2018 Foreign Affairs: Remarks at launch of Foreign Affairs’ Issue on “Is Democracy Dying?”, New
York City, May 2018 Wallace House: University of Michigan, Talk to Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows, January
2018 University of Michigan: Africa-China Conference on Infrastructure, Resource Extraction and
Environmental Sustainability, April 6-7, 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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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
Advising
Dissertation committee member: Yujeong Yang (Political Science), Wang Jieqiong (Architecture & Urban Planning)
Mike Thompson (Advisor, since 2016), Nicole Wu (Faculty mentor, 2012-16) Department of Political Science, Summer GSRA program: Yujeong Yang (2013), Nicole Wu
(2014, 2015), Lan Nyugen (2016), Mike Thompson (2017) M.A. in Chinese Studies, Advisor or reader: Joseph Burkhead (2015), Nora Diehl (2015),
Simin Chen (2014) Undergraduates: Daniel Medendorp (thesis advisor, 2015-2016), Wu Kejia (UROP, 2012-13)
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)
Tenure & promotion committee of junior political economist, 2018 Comparative politics search committee, 2013 Undergraduate teaching committee, 2014-15, 2017-18 Co-organizer (with Ted Brader), Rubin lecture series on “Migration & Immigration,” 2016-
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Center for Chinese Studies
Member of executive committee, 2014-15, 2016-18 (deliberated and voted on applications, proposals, and programs)
Discussant, Interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students: March 2011, November 2012 April 2016
Organized annual conference on “State Capacity in China & Beyond” 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, 2017-18 Faculty reviewer, UM International Institute, student fellowship proposals, 2011, 2016 Faculty reviewer, MPA program, Columbia SIPA, 2010-11
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Student committee member, Stanford Department of Political Science, 2003-4 Others
Faculty Advisor, Knight Wallace Program (fellowship program for mid-career journalists), 2013-4, 2018-19
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Service to political science Advisory Board Member, Cambridge University Press, Elements Series on “The Politics of Development,” 2017-present Executive Committee, American Political Science Association (APSA), Qualitative and Multi-Method Research section, 2018-2020 Award Committee, APSA Political Economy Section, Mancur Olson Dissertation Award, 2017 Award Committee, APSA Politics & History Section, Walter Burnham Dissertation Award, 2019 (Invited but declined due to research leave) Nominating Committee, APSA Political Economy Section, 2016 Advising & service to public policy Consultant to United Nations & UNDP (On innovation and complexity, leveraging Chinese investments for sustainable and inclusive development in Cambodia) Delivered briefings and/or advised United Nations (DESA, Expert Group on Eradicating Poverty), CIKD (affiliated to China’s State Council), various government agencies and investment boards Invited Member, Center for Global Development (Washington D.C.), Working Group on Technology & Development, 2017-19
High level study group to examine the impact of technological advances on the patterns of comparative advantage and on the prospects for developing countries
Referee service Journals: American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Governance, Global Policy, Journal of Politics, Journal of Comparative Politics, Journal of Peasant Studies, Law and Society Review, Public Choice, Regulation & Governance, Sage Open, Socio-Economic Review, 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