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WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"Yuen Yuen Ang offers a revisionist theoretical framework that grapples with complexities of institutional adaptation alongside detailed analyses of sub-national variation in development outcomes... her systematic engagement with diverse literatures circumvents disagreement over which came first, democracy or development, to make a field-shifting move to non-linear complex processes... Anyone concerned with institutions,development, or the role of China in the world, should read this elegantly written book." 
-- Peter Katzenstein Book Prize Committee, for "best book in international relations,comparative politics, or political economy." 

"The first takeaway of the book, that a poor country can harness the institutions they have and get development going is a liberating message... This provocative message challenges our prevailing practice of assessing a country's institutions by their distance from the global best practice... The second part of the book is equally thought provoking. While adaptive approaches to development have become new buzzwords, Yuen Yuen's work brings rigor to this conversation... this analytical lens has enormous potential for thinking through the adaptive challenge, whether at the national level, subnational level or sectoral level."
--Yongmei Zhou (Director of the World Development Report 2017), World Bank Development Blog

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap... is an original and insightful take on what is perhaps the biggest development puzzle of my lifetime... Her unconventional insight is that the first challenge of development is to harness 'weak/wrong/bad' institutions to create markets... China wanted to begin a process of "adaptation" and for that they needed to create conditions conducive to "directed improvisation."... Professor Ang is making important advances in understanding how development can be made possible in her approach to Complexity and Development 2.0.
-- Lant Pritchett (Harvard Kennedy School), State Capability Blog

"Ang provides specialists and nonspecialists alike with a fresh inside-the-black-box account of how the Chinese state--from the center to the periphery, across time and space--has actually practiced (not merely preached) innovation, problem solving, and effective implementation... Future studies of bureaucratic life in China and elsewhere must reckon seriously with Ang's account; she has set an admirably high bar and capably filled a conspicuous scholarly vacuum. It is encouraging that the development policy community is also taking note... Her book is compelling, important, and deserving of a wide audience." 
-- Michael Woolcock (World Bank), Governance 

This book is a triumph, opening a window onto the political economy of China’s astonishing rise that takes as its starting point systems and complexity. Its lessons apply far beyond China’s borders... Ang reveals… [a system of] ‘directed improvisation’- a ‘paradoxical mixture of top-down direction and bottom-up improvisation’… I love this phrase, and it could easily become as prevalent and useful as Peter Evans’ ‘embedded autonomy.’ -- Duncan Green (Oxfam), LSE Review of Books

As if explaining modern Chinese economic development was not enough of a challenge, Ang has two even loftier goals. The first is methodological. She expresses a frustration with political science’s causality obsession and modeling approaches that deliver isolated snapshots of complex processes… Ang’s second ambition is to apply this coevolutionary schema to how we understand economic development generally. -- Edmund Malesky (Duke University), Perspectives on Politics

More unusual are political economy studies that formulate an argument about a recent economic development experience and argue that the principles explaining it are the same as those found in prominent approaches to economic history, thereby proposing an interpretation of economic history scholarship in light of more contemporary developments. Yuen Yuen Ang achieves precisely this with her new interpretation of China’s economic development path. Her key conceptual innovation is to bring complexity theory into the study of economic growth. -- Bin Wong (UCLA, History), Journal of Economic History

I had also not imagined that China, and its remarkable economic growth over the past four decades, would provide such a rich example of complexity principles in action. -- Keith Johnston, Cultivating Leadership Blog (New Zealand)

NAMED "BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS

China's transformation cannot be attributed to a single cause; rather, it arose from a contingent, interactive process—Ang calls it 'directed improvisation.' She formalizes this insight by using a novel analytic method that she terms 'coevolutionary narrative,' which has the potential to influence future studies of institutional and economic change beyond China.

-- Andrew J. Nathan (Columbia University), Foreign Affairs

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In this major new contribution, Yuen Yuen Ang offers a fresh synthetic explanation for the stunning economic transformation of China in recent decades. She shows how China experienced sustained rapid economic development by transforming weak institutions in ways that strengthened states and markets simultaneously. This book points toward a potential model of growth for other countries and is a must-read for all scholars interested in explaining development trajectories in the Global South.

-- James Mahoney, Northwestern University, co-author of Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cornell University Press; Illustrated edition (September 6, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 344 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501700200
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501700200
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.19 x 9 inches
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Yuen Yuen Ang is the inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association for “impactful empirical, theoretical and/or methodological contributions to the study of comparative politics.” She is also named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for “high-caliber scholarship that applies fresh perspectives to the most pressing issues of our times.”

Ang's first book, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016), is acclaimed for its “game changing” and “field shifting" research on adaptive processes of economic-institutional change. It received the Peter Katzenstein Prize in Political Economy and Viviana Zelizer Prize in Economic Sociology, and was named "Best of Books 2017" by Foreign Affairs.

Her second book, China’s Gilded Age: the Paradox of Economic Boom & Vast Corruption, is released by Cambridge University Press in 2020. It was featured in The Economist, The Wire China, and The Diplomat.

Professor Ang was profiled in The New York Times, CGTN’s Visionaries, and the Chinese-language outlets, Jiemian (界面), Pengpai (澎湃), and CNPolitics (政见).

She holds a PhD from Stanford University.

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