Juan Wang

Assistant Professor

PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Research interests

Chinese Politics, Contentious Politics, State and Religion, Comparative Politics, Political Economy of Development

Peer-Reviewed Publications

“The Political Economy of Earmarked Transfers in a State-Designated Poor County in Western China: Central Policies and Local Responses,” co-authored with Mingxing Liu, Ran Tao, & Rachel Murphy, The China Quarterly, Vol. 200 (December 2009), pp. 973-994

“The Politics of Poverty Mis-targeting in China,” Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2007), pp. 219-236

“Going beyond Township and Village Enterprises in Rural China,” Journal of Contemporary China, Issue 14, Vol. 42 (February 2005), pp. 171-181

Conference Presentations

“The Political Economy of Religion and Development: Findings of the Initial Data Analysis,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March 2010

“The Repertoire of Social Stability Control: The Perspective of a Township Level Government,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, September 2009

“Muddling Through: Unfolding Local State Activities in Rural China,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2009

“Institutions, Local Bureaucratic Innovation, and Poverty Reduction in China,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, August 2008

“Going Beyond Township and Village Enterprises,” Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Lexington, January 2005

WORKSHOPS

“Analytic Narratives of Democratization: Formal Theory and Qualitative Historical Research Workshop,” the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, Nov 30-Dec 4, 2010

“Development and Inequality in the Global South,” the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI), Brown University, June 6-19, 2010

“China Learning Workshop: Statistics, Census Data, RS and GIS for China Studies,” Co-organized by C.V. Starr East Asian Library, UC Berkeley and China Data Center, University of Michigan, March 18, 2009

“Social Change Workshop for Graduate Students,” Institute for Humane Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, June 24-30, 2006

Current Book Project

The Sinews of State Power: Intra-State Collusion in Rural China