Associate Professor, Political Science; Faculty Associate, Political Studies
yuenang@umich.edu
Center for Southeast Asian Studies;
CSEAS Faculty;
LRCCS Faculty;
Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies;
PICS Faculty;
Program in International and Comparative Studies;
WCED Faculty;
Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
Education/Degree:
Stanford University, PhD (Political Science); Stanford University, MA (Political Science); Colorado College, BA summa cum laude (Political Science)
About
Yuen Yuen Ang is Associate Professor of Political Science. In 2018, she is named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, awarded for “high-caliber scholarship that applies fresh perspectives to some of the most pressing issues of our times.” Professor Ang is a political scientist who applies perspectives from complex adaptive systems to the study of economic and political development. She studies two interconnected issues: how markets emerge in the absence of good governance and state capacity, and the institutional designs and strategies that enable adaptive problem-solving. She specializes in China and emerging markets. On China, her expertise lies in the economy, bureaucratic politics, adaptation within the party-state, corruption, and the nation’s growing role in international development.
She is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, which won the 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize and was named “Best Books of 2017" by Foreign Affairs.
Fields of Study
- Comparative political economy
- Comparative political organizations
- Contemporary China
