#  Publications 

 



#### BOOKS

Yuhua Wang. 2022. [*The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development*](https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Imperial-China-Contemporary/dp/0691215162). Princeton University Press. \[[Replication Package](https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KER9GK)\]

- Luebbert Best Book Award in Comparative Politics (APSA Comparative Politics Section, 2023)
- First Prize of the Inaugural Chenghai Historical Political Science Research Award (Renmin University of China, 2024)
- Translated into traditional Chinese

Yuhua Wang. 2015. [*Tying the Autocrat’s Hands: The Rise of the Rule of Law in China*](https://www.amazon.com/Tying-Autocrats-Hands-Cambridge-Comparative/dp/1107417740). Cambridge University Press.

#### EDITED VOLUME

Melanie Manion and Yuhua Wang (guest co-editors). 2021. "[China in the World](https://link.springer.com/journal/12116/volumes-and-issues/56-1)." Special issue of *Studies in Comparative International Development*.

#### SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Charles Chang and Yuhua Wang. 2024. "[The Reach of the State](/file_url/266)." *Comparative Political Studies* 57(8): 1243-1275 (Lead Article)*.* \[[CPS Link](https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140231194057)\]\[[Online Appendix](/file_url/256)\]\[[Replication File](https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CSBRZX)\]

- The James Caporaso Best Paper Award for papers published in *Comparative Political Studies* (2024)

Hao Chen, Saul Wilson, Changxin Patrick Xu, Cheng Cheng, and Yuhua Wang. 2024. “[Dethroning the Mao-era Elite, Clearing the Way for Reform](/file_url/264).” *The China Quarterly* 258: 346–366. \[[CQ Link](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741023001686)\]\[[Chinese Organizational History Dataset](https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8NAGSS)\]

Pamela J. Clouser McCann, Charles R. Shipan, and Yuhua Wang. 2023. "[Measuring the Legislative Design of Judicial Review of Agency Actions.](/file_url/251)" *Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization* 39(1): 123-159*.* \[[JLEO Link](https://academic.oup.com/jleo/article/39/1/123/6460255?login=true)\]\[[Supplementary Appendix](/file_url/232)\]

Yuhua Wang. 2022. "[Blood Is Thicker Than Water: Elite Kinship Networks and State Building in Imperial China](/file_url/241)." *American Political Science Review* 116 (3): 896-910. \[[APSR Link](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421001490)\]\[[Supplementary Materials](/file_url/228)\]\[[Replication File](https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/C1SWYV)\]\[[Chinese Translation](/file_url/248)\]

- Honorable Mention for the Political Ties Award (APSA Political Networks Section, 2023)
- A [response](https://ssrn.com/abstract=6755538) to Lin's reappraisal

Yuhua Wang and Bruce Dickson. 2022. "[How Corruption Investigations Undermine Regime Support: Evidence from China](/file_url/230)." *Political Science Research and Methods* 10(1): 33-48. \[[PSRM Link](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-science-research-and-methods/article/how-corruption-investigations-undermine-regime-support-evidence-from-china/C3E0BEDD67FF6BC3644DF0A9E5A89417#article)\]\[[Web Appendix](/file_url/208)\]\[[Replication File](https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DBA7TB)\]

Yuhua Wang. 2021. “[State-in-Society 2.0: Toward Fourth-Generation Theories of the State](/file_url/223)." *Comparative Politics* 54(1): 175-198. \[[CP Link](https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/cuny/cp/2021/00000054/00000001/art00009)\] \[[Chinese Translation](/file_url/249)\]

Yuhua Wang. 2021. “ [The Political Legacy of Violence during China's Cultural Revolution](/file_url/205)" *British Journal of Political Science* 51 (2): 463-487*.* \[[BJPS Link](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/political-legacy-of-violence-during-chinas-cultural-revolution/B98E87DD54A01C4C64C55E2AC6965809)\]\[[Web Appendix](/file_url/188)\]\[[Replication File](https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/1VWM7S)\]

M. Taylor Fravel, Melanie Manion, and Yuhua Wang. 2021. "[A "China in the World" Paradigm for Scholarship](/file_url/206)." *Studies in Comparative International Development* 56 (1): 1-17.

Yuhua Wang. 2018. “[Relative Capture: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Chinese Judiciary](/file_url/175).” *Comparative Political Studies* 51 (8): 1012-1041*.* \[[CPS Link](https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414017720708)\]\[[Web Appendix](/file_url/152)\]\[[Replication File](/file_url/149)\]

Mark Dincecco and Yuhua Wang. 2018. “[Violent Conflict and Political Development over the Long Run: China versus Europe](/file_url/173).” *Annual Review of Political Science* 21: 341-358*.* [\[Chinese Translation\]](/file_url/207)

Yuhua Wang. 2017. “[Betting on a Princeling](/file_url/169).” *Studies in Comparative International Development* 52 (4): 395-415*.* \[[Web Appendix](/file_url/135)\]

Yuhua Wang. 2016. “[Beyond Local Protectionism: China’s State-Business Relations in the Last Two Decades](/file_url/156).” *The China Quarterly* 226: 319-341. \[[Web Appendix](/file_url/131)\]

Yuhua Wang and Carl Minzner. 2015. “[The Rise of the Chinese Security State](/file_url/157).” *The China Quarterly* 222: 339-359.

Yuhua Wang. 2015. “[Politically Connected Polluters under Smog](/file_url/101).” *Business & Politics* 17(1): 97-124. \[[Web Appendix](/file_url/132)\]

Yuhua Wang. 2014. “[Empowering the Police: How the Chinese Communist Party Manages Its Coercive Leaders](/file_url/158).” *The China Quarterly* 219: 625-648.

Yuhua Wang. 2014. “[Institutions and Bribery in an Authoritarian State](/file_url/103).” *Studies in Comparative International Development* 49(2): 217-241. \[Covered by [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/business/global/coin-of-realm-in-china-graft-phony-receipts.html?_r=0)\]

Yuhua Wang. 2014. “[Coercive Capacity and the Durability of the Chinese Communist State](/file_url/159).” *Communist and Post-Communist Studies* 47(1): 13-25.

Yuhua Wang. 2013. “[Court Funding and Judicial Corruption in China](/file_url/105).” *The China Journal* 69: 43-63.

#### BOOK CHAPTERS

Dincecco, Mark, and Yuhua Wang. 2024. "[State Capacity in Historical Political Economy](/file_url/245)." In *Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy*, Jeff Jenkins and Jared Rubin, eds., Oxford University Press.

Yuhua Wang. 2023. “The Sovereign’s Dilemma: State Capacity and Ruler Survival in Imperial China.” In *The Long East Asia: The Premodern State and Its Contemporary Impacts*, Zhengxu Wang, ed., Springer, 69-98.

Yuhua Wang. 2018. "[Can the Chinese Communist Party Learn from Chinese Emperors](/file_url/168)?" In *The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power*, Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi, eds., Harvard University Press. \[[Los Angeles Review of Books Coverage](https://chinachannel.org/2018/03/22/chinese-emperors/)\] \[[Chinese Translation](/file_url/204)\]

Gallagher, Mary, and Yuhua Wang. 2011. "[Users and Non-Users: Legal Experience and its Effect on Legal Consciousness](/file_url/108)." In *Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China*, Margaret Woo and Mary Gallagher, eds., Cambridge University Press, 204-233.