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Yuen Yuen Ang Yuen Yuen Ang Office Address: University of Michigan, 7719 Haven Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 | Email: [email protected] | Website: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/yy-ang/ | Office: 734-936-0089 HIGHLIGHTS . Inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association, “for impactful contributions to the study of comparative politics” . Andrew Carnegie Fellow for “high-caliber scholarship [on] the most pressing issues of our times” . Book awards for “game-changing” and “field-shifting” research in How China Escaped the Poverty Trap . Media profiles and reviews in CGTN, Foreign Affairs, The Diplomat, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wire China, Dushu (China), Pengpai (China), etc. Thematic focus: political economy of development in the age of disruption; adaptive governance; institutions for promoting public- and private-sector innovation . China expertise: Chinese political economy, global impact of China’s rise, US-China relations FACULTY APPOINTMENTS University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Department of Political Science. Associate Professor, 2017- present; Assistant Professor, 2011-2016. Columbia University. School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA). Assistant Professor. 2010- 2011 Fellow Columbia University. Columbia World Projects Fellow. 2021-present. Visiting Appointment Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. 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 . Recipient of full scholarship for international students (two awarded each year) . Edith Bramhall Award for Best Thesis in Political Science HIGHLIGHTED AWARDS & HONORS Career Award 2020 Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholar, Awarded by the American Political Science Association “to a scholar up to ten years post-PhD whose work has made impactful empirical, theoretical and/or methodological contributions to the study of comparative politics” (Featured in APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter Fall 2020) Fellowships 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for “high-caliber scholarship that applies fresh perspectives to the most pressing issues of our times,” Awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York 2017-19 National Committee of US-China Relations, Fellow of the Public Intellectuals Program (20 fellows selected each cohort) 2009-10 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS, Early Career Fellowship, for early doctoral recipients (25 selected from 2008-09 completion cohort) 2008-09 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS, Early Career Fellowship, for doctoral completion (65 awards) Book Awards & Honors 2018 Viviana Zelizer Best Book 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 Others 2020 Emergent Ventures, Grant to support book manuscript The Age of Disruption 2018 Foreign Affairs Best of Print 2018, for essay “Autocracy with Chinese Characteristics” 2017 Smith Richardson Foundation, Research Grant for China’s Gilded Age 2017 IBM Center for the Business of Government, Research Award, “Integrating Big Data and Thick Data” 2014 Winner of GDN global essay competition on “The Future of Development Assistance,” sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ($20,000 award; 13 winners selected worldwide from 1,470 submissions) 2014 University of Michigan, Department of Political Science, Eldersveld Prize for Outstanding Research Contributions PUBLICATIONS Books 2020. China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. Cambridge University Press. Released 30 July 2020. Reviewed in The Economist; media mention in Axios, BBC World News, Financial Times, CNBC- TV18, Mint . Print interviews in City Monitor, CKGSB Knowledge, The Diplomat, The Wire China, Young China Watchers . Podcasts in China Talk (USA), From Poverty to Power (UK), In Pursuit of Development (Norway), New Books Economics, Slate Money (USA), States of Anarchy (India) . Selected book talks: Distinguished Lecture at HKUST Emerging Markets Institute; London School of Economics; Harvard Kennedy School; University of California in San Diego; American Bar Association; Beijing FCCC (Foreign Correspondents Club of China); Shanghai FCCC; National Committee of US-China Relations; European Chamber of Commerce in China 2016. How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. Cornell University Press. Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Ang | 2 . 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 in Economic Sociology, Awarded by the American Sociological Association . Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017 . Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2017 . Reviews in China-State Council’s DRC (link), Dushu-Zhao Shukai (link), Foreign Affairs (link), Governance (link), Harvard Kennedy School Blog (link), Iterative Adaptation Blog (link), Journal of Economic History (link), Journal of Economic Literature (link), Journal of Human Development (link), LSE Review of Books (link), Oxfam (link), Oxfam-double book review (link), Pacific Affairs (link), Pengpai (link), Perspectives on Politics (link), Straits Times (link), The China Quarterly (link), The China Journal (link), World Bank Development Blog (link). Profiled in BBC Thinking Allowed, CGTN (English), Initium Media (Hong Kong), Jiemian (Chinese), The New York Times (Chinese). Chinese edition (translated by Ma Liang) published by CUHK and Sanlian Press in 2018 Comparative political economy 2020. “Unbundling Corruption: Revisiting Six Questions on Corruption,” Global Perspectives, Inaugural Online Issue [Peer-reviewed article] 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. [Volume] 2017. “Beyond Weber: Conceptualizing an Alternative Ideal-Type of Bureaucracy in Developing Contexts.” Regulation & Governance, Vol 11 (3): 282-298. [Article] . Media mention in The Wall Street Journal 2014. “Authoritarian Restraints on Online Activism Revisited: Why ‘I-Paid-A-Bribe’ Worked in India but Failed in China,” Comparative Politics, Vol 47 (1): 21-40 [Article] Chinese Political Economy & Global China 2020. “When COVID-19 Meets Centralized, Personalized Power.” Nature Human Behavior (part of the science journal Nature). [Peer-reviewed] 2019. “Demystifying China’s Belt and Road: The Struggle to Define China’s Project of the Century,” Foreign Affairs, May 22, 2019. [Essay] . Invited to deliver remarks based on this essay at Brookings-Oxfam seminar on “Chinese approach to development,” June 2019 2018. “The Real China Model: It’s Not What You Think It is,” Foreign Affairs, June 29, 2018. [Essay] 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. [Essay] . Selected by Foreign Affairs as “Best of Print 2018” . Included in Foreign Affairs’ reading list on “How to Understand the United States and China” (Link) Ang | 3 . Mentions: The New York Times (Philip Pan), CNN & Washington Post (Fareed Zakaria), Council on Foreign Relations, Axios, PBS Frontline, Democracy Works (co-edited by former President of Nigeria Obasanjo) 2018. “Domestic Flying Geese: Industrial Transfer and Delayed Policy Diffusion in China.” The China Quarterly, Vol. 234, pp. 420-443. [Article] . Also appeared as Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Working Paper No. 762 (2017) 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. [Volume] 2016. “Co-optation & Clientelism: Nested Distributive Politics in China’s Single-Party Dictatorship,” Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol 51(3): 235-256. [Article] 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): 318-332 [Article] 2012. “Counting Cadres: A Comparative View of the Size of China’s Public Employment,” The China Quarterly, Volume 211: 676-696 [Article] 2009. “Centralizing Treasury Management in China: The Rationale of the Central Reformers,” Public Administration & Development, Vol 29(4): 263-73 [Article] 2005. “When Peasants Sue En Masse: Large Scale Collective Administrative Litigation in Rural China,” China: An International Journal, Vol 3(1): 24-49 [Article] Innovation 2020. “The Myth of the Tech Race,” Project Syndicate, Special Edition: Beyond the Tech Lash. April 21, 2020. [Essay] . Special issue on threats and promises of technological disruptions, with Barry Eichengreen, Robert Reich, Daron Acemoglu, Lee Kai-Fu, and other thought leaders 2019. “Integrating Big Data & Thick Data to Transform Public Services Delivery,” IBM Center for the Business of Government Research Report [Report] . Funded by competitive award on public innovation from IBM Center; according to IBM, viewed 160,000 times, the most popular report of the year 2018. “Going Local 2.0: How to Reform Development Agencies to Make Localized Aid More than Talk.” Stanford Social Innovation Review, October 8, 2018. [Essay] . Adapted
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