Juan Wang

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor

Juan Wang
Contact Information
Address: 

Leacock 524, 855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T7

Email: juan.wang2 [at] mcgill.ca

Degree(s): 

PhD, Johns Hopkins University


 

Research areas: 
Comparative Government and Politics
Areas of interest: 

My research interests are centered around "the state," its construction, its boundary, its internal dynamics, and its constitutive interactions with "non-state" forces.

Empirically, I focus on the People's Republic of China and examine interactions between different levels of local governments, between different legal and judicial institutions, the issue of agency control, the building of bureaucracy, and the epistemology of the state. 

Methodologically, I adopt qualitative and historical research. 


 

Selected publications: 

Book:

2017. The Sinews of State Power: The Rise and Demise of The Cohesive Local State in Rural China (New York: Oxford University Press)

[Critical Dialogue in Perspectives on Politics with Ralph Thaxton, Vol. 17, Issue 3 (2019), pp. 843-847.]


Articles:


Book Chapters:

  • Forthcoming. "Emergent Corruption and Anti-Corruption in China: 1949-2021,” in Marco Garrido, Marina Zaloznaya, and Nicholas Wilson eds, A New Sociology of Corruption (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  • 2023. "Judicial Relations in Local China" (with Sitao Li), Handbook on Local Governance in China: Structures, Variations, and Innovations. Ceren Ergenc and David S. G. Goodman eds. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing): 417-428.

Book Reviews:


Opinion Pieces

Courses: 

Chines Politics (undergraduate and graduate); Chinese Foreign Policy (undergraduate)

Politics in Japan and South Korea (undergraduate)

Contentious Politics (undergraduate and graduate); Field Seminar in Comparative Politics (graduate)

The Police, Justice, and Punishment (honour seminar)

 

Group: 
Associate Professor
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