Yuen Yuen Ang

Johns Hopkins University

Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy

Baltimore, MD 20036-1984

United States

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1.

How Resilient is the Chinese Communist Party?

Ang, Yuen Yuen. “How Resilient Is the CCP?”. Journal of Democracy, vol. 33, no. 3, July 2022, pp. 77–91.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 16 Sep 2022
Yuen Yuen Ang
Johns Hopkins University
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China, authoritarian resilience, institutionalization, adaptive bureaucracy, Chinese Communist Party

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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
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 04 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2014
Yuen Yuen Ang
Johns Hopkins University
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authoritarianism, online activism, censorship, civil society, corruption China, India

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Counting Cadres: A Comparative View of the Size of China’s Public Employment

The China Quarterly, September 2012, pp. 676-696
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2014
Yuen Yuen Ang
Johns Hopkins University
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public employment, bureaucracy, local governance, over-staffing, China

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Perverse Complementarity: Political Connections & the Use of Courts Among Private Firms in China

The Journal of Politics, Vol 76(2), pp. 318-332
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2014
Yuen Yuen Ang and Nan Jia
Johns Hopkins University and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Informal institutions, rule of law, political connections, dispute resolution, private firms, China

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Unbundling Corruption: Revisiting Six Questions on Corruption

Global Perspectives, 2020
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2020
Yuen Yuen Ang
Johns Hopkins University
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corruption, bribery, capitalism, economic growth, governance, measures

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The Promise and Pitfalls of Government Guidance Funds

Forthcoming at The China Quarterly
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2023
Yifan Wei, Yuen Yuen Ang and Nan Jia
I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Johns Hopkins University and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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US-China competition, technology, industrial policies, government guidance funds, policy gap

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How Beijing Commands: Grey, Black, and Red Directives from Deng to Xi

The China Quarterly
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2023
Yuen Yuen Ang
Johns Hopkins University
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China, bureaucracy, policy communication, adaptive, ambiguity, automated text analysis

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Beyond Weber: Conceptualizing an Alternative Ideal-Type of Bureaucracy in Developing Contexts

Regulation and Governance, 2017
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 31 May 2016 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2018
Yuen Yuen Ang
Johns Hopkins University
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public administration, bureaucracy, developing countries, corruption, Weber, incentives, China

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Profit-Sharing, Chinese Style

Chapter 4 in China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom & Vast Corruption, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 10 Jun 2021
Yuen Yuen Ang
Johns Hopkins University
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corruption; bureaucracy; incentives; time horizon; governance; China

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Do Weberian Bureaucracies Lead to Markets or Vice Versa? A Coevolutionary Approach to Development

Chapter in States in the Developing World, Edited by Atul Kohli, Deborah Yashar, and Miguel Centeno, Cambridge University Press, 2017
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2017
Yuen Yuen Ang
Johns Hopkins University
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state capacity; development; governance; bureaucracy; coevolution; developing countries; China

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Domestic Flying Geese: Industrial Transfer and Delayed Policy Diffusion in China

The China Quarterly, 2018
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2018
Yuen Yuen Ang
Johns Hopkins University
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Industrial transfer; flying geese model; policy diffusion; industrial policy; domestic investment; regional development

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Centralizing Treasury Management in China: The Rationale of the Central Reformers

Public Administration & Development, Vol. 29, pp. 263-273, 2009
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 27 Mar 2012
Yuen Yuen Ang
Johns Hopkins University
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anti-corruption, fiscal control, intergovernmental transfers, treasury reform, China

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Directed Improvisation in Administrative Financing

Chapter in Zouping Revisited: Adaptive Governance in a Chinese County, edited by Jean Oi and Steve Goldstein. Stanford University Press, (2018) Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 16 Aug 2017
Yuen Yuen Ang
Johns Hopkins University
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China; bureaucracy; public finance; adaptive governance; corruption; decentralization

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Co-Optation & Clientelism: Nested Distributive Politics in China's Single-Party Dictatorship

Studies in Comparative & International Development, 1-22, 2016, DOI: 10.1007/s12116-015-9208-0
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2016
Yuen Yuen Ang
Johns Hopkins University
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co-optation; clientelism; dictatorships; redistribution; public employment; China

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Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission 'CCP Decision-Making and the 20 th Party Congress'

Testimony to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, 27 Jan 2022
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 22 Mar 2023
Yuen Yuen Ang
Johns Hopkins University
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The Promise and Pitfalls of Government Guiding Funds

Posted: 29 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2022
Yifan Wei, Yuen Yuen Ang and Nan Jia
I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Johns Hopkins University and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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China, US-China competition, technology, government guiding funds, state capitalism

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The Limits of State-Led Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Patents

Posted: 14 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2023
Yuen Yuen Ang, Nan Jia, APSA Automator and Kenneth G. Huang
Johns Hopkins University, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, affiliation not provided to SSRN and National University of Singapore (NUS) - ISEM & NUS Business School

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state-led innovation; technology; US-China; patents; state capitalism