Yuen Yuen Ang
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1754521 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yuen Yuen Ang |
| PRENOMES | Yuen Yuen |
| SOBRENOME | Ang |
| ASSINATURA | ANG Y Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1476-8646 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Turning Polycrisis into Polytunity 1
AIM (Adaptive, Inclusive, Moral) Political Economy
Why the Polycrisis can also be a Polytunity
Media consumption patterns and public hostility toward China in the United States
This study explores the relationship between media consumption patterns of China-related news and American public opinion of China, analyzing responses from an original survey of 1225 US residents. Employing a new measure of hostility that captures not only the emotional responses but also the policy stances individuals may take in relation to foreign policy, the analysis reveals that traditional media sources, such as television, radio, and prin…
Adaptive Political Economy
The conventional paradigm in political economy routinely treats living, complex, adaptive social systems as machine-like objects. This treatment has driven political economists to oversimplify big, complex social processes using mechanical models, or to ignore them altogether. In development, this has led to theoretical dead ends, trivial agendas, or failed public policies. This article proposes an alternative paradigm: adaptive political economy…
China’s Low-Productivity Innovation Drive
Can China catch-up with the United States technologically by mobilizing its bureaucracy and assigning ambitious targets to local governments? We analyzed an original dataset of 4.6 million patents filed in China from 1990 through 2014 and paired this with a new, rigorous measure of patent novelty that approximates the quality of innovation. In 2006, China’s central government launched a national campaign to promote indigenous innovation and intro…
Reinventing Multilateralism
The current system of multilateralism, borne out of circumstances after the Second World War, is no longer fit for purpose today. How should this system be reinvented, and what types of research can contribute to its reform? First, it is not enough to tell international organizations that they ought to do more of the same good things such as transparency and engagement; rather, we need contextually grounded and publicly engaged research that help…
How Resilient Is the CCP
Under President Xi Jinping's personalist rule, the CCP's formula for authoritarian resilience has evolved, and so too have the risks it confronts. While Xi has drastically weakened some dimensions of institutionalization—particularly limits on his own power—he has not eliminated all of them. The CCP still commands a high-capacity and selectively adaptive bureaucracy; it has tightened political control; and U.S. animosity toward China has inadvert…
China's Gilded Age
Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ways: it stimulates investment and growth but produc…
Unbundling Corruption
Corruption is conventionally measured in global indices as a one-dimensional problem—one score for every country—a practice that has profoundly shaped our conceptualization of corruption and its relationship with capitalism. What if we unbundle corruption into qualitatively distinct types and then measure them across countries? How will this approach change our understanding of corruption? This review article serves two purposes. First, it introd…
China's Gilded Age
Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang argues that not all types of corruption hurt growth, nor do they cause the same kind of harm. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money--elite exchanges of power and profit--cuts both ways: it stimulates investment and growth but p…
When Covid-19 meets centralized, personalized power
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE "BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS WINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY " How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences." ― Zelizer Best Book in Economic Sociology Prize Committee Acclaimed as "game changin…
Do Weberian Bureaucracies Lead to Markets or Vice Versa? A Coevolutionary Approach to Development
Are Weberian bureaucracies a precondition for capitalist markets or is it the other way around? According to the developmental school, state bureaucracies organized along Weberian precepts is necessary for successful state-led growth. Yet some level of economic wealth also appears to be necessary for achieving such desirable institutions. Departing from conventional linear approaches to development, this essay develops and applies a coevolutionar…
Beyond Weber
The study of public administration in developing countries requires that we look beyond the Weberian model as the only ideal type of bureaucracy. When we assume that there exists only one gold standard of public administration, all other organizational forms that do not conform to the Weberian ideal are dismissed as corrupt or failed. Drawing on neo‐institutional economics, I introduce an alternative ideal type of bureaucracy found in contemporar…
Co-optation & Clientelism
Perverse Complementarity
Using survey data of over 3,900 private firms in China, we examine whether—and how—political connections promote or undermine the use of formal legal institutions. We find that politically connected firms are more inclined than nonconnected firms to use courts over informal avenues of dispute resolution. Furthermore, by comparing the effects of political connections on dispute-resolution patterns across regional institutional environments, we fin…
Authoritarian Restraints on Online Activism Revisited
The spread of the Internet and new communication technologies has opened a new and potent avenue for contention in authoritarian regimes.Thus far, the study of authoritarian restraints on online activism has centered on direct measures of state control-primarily regulation, censorship, and repression. 1 Despite a surge of attention to online activism, 2 however, there has been scant analysis of the forms and origins of internal organizational pro…
They Seen Their Opportunities
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Perverse Complementarity
Using survey data of over 3,900 private firms in China, we examine whether—and how—political connections promote or undermine the use of formal legal institutions. We find that politically connected firms are more inclined than nonconnected firms to use courts over informal avenues of dispute resolution. Furthermore, by comparing the effects of political connections on dispute-resolution patterns across regional institutional environments, we fin…
Beyond Weber
The study of public administration in developing countries requires that we look beyond the Weberian model as the only ideal type of bureaucracy. When we assume that there exists only one gold standard of public administration, all other organizational forms that do not conform to the Weberian ideal are dismissed as corrupt or failed. Drawing on neo‐institutional economics, I introduce an alternative ideal type of bureaucracy found in contemporar…
Co-optation & Clientelism
Authoritarian Restraints on Online Activism Revisited
The spread of the Internet and new communication technologies has opened a new and potent avenue for contention in authoritarian regimes.Thus far, the study of authoritarian restraints on online activism has centered on direct measures of state control-primarily regulation, censorship, and repression. 1 Despite a surge of attention to online activism, 2 however, there has been scant analysis of the forms and origins of internal organizational pro…
When Covid-19 meets centralized, personalized power
Unbundling Corruption
Corruption is conventionally measured in global indices as a one-dimensional problem—one score for every country—a practice that has profoundly shaped our conceptualization of corruption and its relationship with capitalism. What if we unbundle corruption into qualitatively distinct types and then measure them across countries? How will this approach change our understanding of corruption? This review article serves two purposes. First, it introd…
Adaptive Political Economy
The conventional paradigm in political economy routinely treats living, complex, adaptive social systems as machine-like objects. This treatment has driven political economists to oversimplify big, complex social processes using mechanical models, or to ignore them altogether. In development, this has led to theoretical dead ends, trivial agendas, or failed public policies. This article proposes an alternative paradigm: adaptive political economy…
China’s Low-Productivity Innovation Drive
Can China catch-up with the United States technologically by mobilizing its bureaucracy and assigning ambitious targets to local governments? We analyzed an original dataset of 4.6 million patents filed in China from 1990 through 2014 and paired this with a new, rigorous measure of patent novelty that approximates the quality of innovation. In 2006, China’s central government launched a national campaign to promote indigenous innovation and intro…
Reinventing Multilateralism
The current system of multilateralism, borne out of circumstances after the Second World War, is no longer fit for purpose today. How should this system be reinvented, and what types of research can contribute to its reform? First, it is not enough to tell international organizations that they ought to do more of the same good things such as transparency and engagement; rather, we need contextually grounded and publicly engaged research that help…
How Resilient Is the CCP
Under President Xi Jinping's personalist rule, the CCP's formula for authoritarian resilience has evolved, and so too have the risks it confronts. While Xi has drastically weakened some dimensions of institutionalization—particularly limits on his own power—he has not eliminated all of them. The CCP still commands a high-capacity and selectively adaptive bureaucracy; it has tightened political control; and U.S. animosity toward China has inadvert…
They Seen Their Opportunities
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Perverse Complementarity
Using survey data of over 3,900 private firms in China, we examine whether—and how—political connections promote or undermine the use of formal legal institutions. We find that politically connected firms are more inclined than nonconnected firms to use courts over informal avenues of dispute resolution. Furthermore, by comparing the effects of political connections on dispute-resolution patterns across regional institutional environments, we fin…
Authoritarian Restraints on Online Activism Revisited
The spread of the Internet and new communication technologies has opened a new and potent avenue for contention in authoritarian regimes.Thus far, the study of authoritarian restraints on online activism has centered on direct measures of state control-primarily regulation, censorship, and repression. 1 Despite a surge of attention to online activism, 2 however, there has been scant analysis of the forms and origins of internal organizational pro…
Co-optation & Clientelism
Do Weberian Bureaucracies Lead to Markets or Vice Versa? A Coevolutionary Approach to Development
Are Weberian bureaucracies a precondition for capitalist markets or is it the other way around? According to the developmental school, state bureaucracies organized along Weberian precepts is necessary for successful state-led growth. Yet some level of economic wealth also appears to be necessary for achieving such desirable institutions. Departing from conventional linear approaches to development, this essay develops and applies a coevolutionar…
Beyond Weber
The study of public administration in developing countries requires that we look beyond the Weberian model as the only ideal type of bureaucracy. When we assume that there exists only one gold standard of public administration, all other organizational forms that do not conform to the Weberian ideal are dismissed as corrupt or failed. Drawing on neo‐institutional economics, I introduce an alternative ideal type of bureaucracy found in contemporar…
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE "BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS WINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY " How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences." ― Zelizer Best Book in Economic Sociology Prize Committee Acclaimed as "game changin…
China's Gilded Age
Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ways: it stimulates investment and growth but produc…
Unbundling Corruption
Corruption is conventionally measured in global indices as a one-dimensional problem—one score for every country—a practice that has profoundly shaped our conceptualization of corruption and its relationship with capitalism. What if we unbundle corruption into qualitatively distinct types and then measure them across countries? How will this approach change our understanding of corruption? This review article serves two purposes. First, it introd…
China's Gilded Age
Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang argues that not all types of corruption hurt growth, nor do they cause the same kind of harm. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money--elite exchanges of power and profit--cuts both ways: it stimulates investment and growth but p…
When Covid-19 meets centralized, personalized power
How Resilient Is the CCP
Under President Xi Jinping's personalist rule, the CCP's formula for authoritarian resilience has evolved, and so too have the risks it confronts. While Xi has drastically weakened some dimensions of institutionalization—particularly limits on his own power—he has not eliminated all of them. The CCP still commands a high-capacity and selectively adaptive bureaucracy; it has tightened political control; and U.S. animosity toward China has inadvert…
Reinventing Multilateralism
The current system of multilateralism, borne out of circumstances after the Second World War, is no longer fit for purpose today. How should this system be reinvented, and what types of research can contribute to its reform? First, it is not enough to tell international organizations that they ought to do more of the same good things such as transparency and engagement; rather, we need contextually grounded and publicly engaged research that help…
China’s Low-Productivity Innovation Drive
Can China catch-up with the United States technologically by mobilizing its bureaucracy and assigning ambitious targets to local governments? We analyzed an original dataset of 4.6 million patents filed in China from 1990 through 2014 and paired this with a new, rigorous measure of patent novelty that approximates the quality of innovation. In 2006, China’s central government launched a national campaign to promote indigenous innovation and intro…
Why the Polycrisis can also be a Polytunity
Media consumption patterns and public hostility toward China in the United States
This study explores the relationship between media consumption patterns of China-related news and American public opinion of China, analyzing responses from an original survey of 1225 US residents. Employing a new measure of hostility that captures not only the emotional responses but also the policy stances individuals may take in relation to foreign policy, the analysis reveals that traditional media sources, such as television, radio, and prin…
Adaptive Political Economy
The conventional paradigm in political economy routinely treats living, complex, adaptive social systems as machine-like objects. This treatment has driven political economists to oversimplify big, complex social processes using mechanical models, or to ignore them altogether. In development, this has led to theoretical dead ends, trivial agendas, or failed public policies. This article proposes an alternative paradigm: adaptive political economy…
Turning Polycrisis into Polytunity 1
AIM (Adaptive, Inclusive, Moral) Political Economy
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