Xiaonan Wang

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Maryland College Park United States

M.A., Public Policy, Tsinghua University Beijing China

B.A., Philosophy, Peking University Beijing China

B.A., Economics, Peking University Beijing China

Journal Articles

(2022). Does Chinese FDI in Africa Inspire Support for a China Model of Development?. WORLD DEVELOPMENT, 150.

(2022). Too Cynical: Why the Stock Market in China Dismissed Initial Anticorruption Signals. JOURNAL OF CHINESE POLITICAL SCIENCE, 27(4). 681-717.

(2022). Foreign Direct Investment, Unmet Expectations, and the Prospects of Political Leaders: Evidence from Chinese Investment in Africa. JOURNAL OF POLITICS, 84(3). 1403-1419.

(2020). Seeking Credibility from Uncertainty: How Formal Cooptation Institution Unleashes Outspoken NGOs. VOLUNTAS, 31(4). 711-721.

(2020). Wire-Walking: Risk Management and Policy Experiments in China from a Comparative Perspective. JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE POLICY ANALYSIS, 22(4). 360-382.

(2017). Political Incentives and Local Policy Innovations in China. JOURNAL OF CHINESE POLITICAL SCIENCE, 22(4). 519-547.

Presentations

Wang, X., McCauley, J., & Pearson, M. (2025, June 15). Influential but Unwanted: Chinese and US FDI in Africa. Academic Lecture at School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University. Tsinghua University

Wang, X., & Wang, Y. (2025, August 15). Local public Opinions on China's Global Infrastructure Projects in Kenya: A Pre-analysis Plan. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Los Angeles

Wang, X., McCauley, J., & Pearson, M. (2025, September 15). Overseas Investment as Soft Power? Chinese and US FDI in Africa. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Montreal

Wang, X., Pearson, M., & McCauley, J. (2025, December 15). Overseas Investment as Soft Power? Chinese and US FDI in Africa. Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program. Columbia University

McCauley, J., Pearson, M., & Wang, X. (2025, August 15). Does Chinese FDI in Africa Inspire Support for a China Model of Development?. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Virtual

Wang, X. (2025, August 15). Play It Safe and Appoint Outsiders: Anti-Corruption Campaigns and Bureaucratic Appointments. New Faces in Chinese Politics Conference. Duke University

Wang, X., McCauley, J., & Pearson, M. (2025, November 15). Foreign Direct Investment, Unmet Expectations, and the Prospects of Political Leaders: Evidence from Chinese investment in Africa. Annual Conference of International Political Economy Society. Virtual

Wang, X., & Wang, Y. (2025, August 15). Too Cynical: Why the Stock Market in China Dismissed Initial Anticorruption Signals. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Boston

Mei, C., & Wang, X. (2025, April 15). Political Incentives and Local Policy Innovations in China. Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference. Chicago

Reviews

Wang, X. (1970,January 1). The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China: By Iza Ding Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022, 245 pp., $52.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781501760372. Taylor & Francis.

Research Currently in Progess

Wang, X., Pearson, M., & McCauley, J.(n.d.). Influential but Unwanted: Chinese and US FDI in Africa.

Wang, X.(n.d.). Play It Safe and Appoint Outsiders: Anti-Corruption Campaigns and Bureaucratic Appointments. In Progress.

Wang, X., & Wang, Y.(n.d.). Fast-tracking to Failure: When Electoral Opportunism Meets Chinese Global Infrastructure Projects. In Progress.

Strange, A., Wang, X., & Wang, Y.(n.d.). Can Public Diplomacy Repair Reputation? Evidence from Chinese-financed Infrastructure in Indonesia and Kenya. In Progress.

Wang, X.(n.d.). Book Project: The Politics of Appointing Insiders and Outsiders: Appointing Provincial Government Agency Heads in China. In Progress.

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