​Ling S. Chen

Articles:

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Ling Chen.2026. “China’s Economic Involution: State and Business Strategies.” China Leadership Monitor 87:1-14.

 

Chen, Ling S., Xiuyu Li, and Kellee S. Tsai. 2026. "Pathways to Authoritarian Capitalism." 

Comparative Politics 58 (2): 197-210.

 

Chen, Ling. 2024. "Institutional Rebound: Why Reforming China’s State-Owned Enterprises Is So Difficult." Comparative Politics 56 (2): 173-195. 

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Chen, Ling, and Miles Evers. 2023. “'Wars without Gun Smoke':
Global Supply Chains, Power Politics, and Economic Statecraft.” International Security 48 (2): 164 - 204.​

• Featured in Drezner’s World by Daniel Drezner

• Translated into Chinese 

 

Chen, Ling. 2022. “Getting China’s Political Economy Right: State, Business, and Authoritarian Capitalism.” Perspectives on Politics 20(4): 1397-1402. 

• Top 5% attention score by Altmetric

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Chen, Ling and Florian Hollenbach. 2022 "Capital Mobility and Taxation: State-Business Collusion in China." International Studies Quarterly 66 (1). (open access)

- supplementary information and replication files 

• Winner, 2022 American Political Science Association (APSA) Best Comparative Policy Award

• Featured in CSIS "Pekingology" Podcast with Freeman Chair in China Studies

 

Chen, Ling and Hao Zhang. 2021. "Strategic Authoritarianism: The Political Cycles and Selectivity of China's Tax Break Policy." American Journal of Political Science 65(4):845-861. (open access)

​ - ​Supporting Information; Replication Materials

• ​  2021-2022 AJPS Top Cited Articles  

• Wiley Certificate of Top Downloaded Article

 

 Chen, Ling. 2017. “Grounded Globalization: Foreign Capital and Local Bureaucrats in China’s Economic Transformation.” World Development 98: 381-399. 

• The Washington Post

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Chen, Ling. 2014. “Varieties of Global Capital and the Paradox of Local Upgrading in China,” 

Politics & Society 42 (2): 223-252.

• CNPolitics (Zhengjian)

 

Chen, Ling. 2010. “Playing the Market Reform Card: The Changing Patterns of Political Struggle in China’s Electric Power Sector,” The China Journal, no. 64: 69-95.        

 

Chen, Ling. 2008. “Institutional Inertia, Adjustment, and Change: Japan as a Case of Coordinated Market Economy,” Review of International Political Economy 15 (3): 460-479. 

 

Chen, Ling. 2008. “Preferences, Institutions and Politics: Re-Interrogating the Theoretical Lessons of Developmental Economies,” New Political Economy 13 (1): 89-102.

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Other Publications 

 

​Chen, Ling. 2022. "Changing State-Business Relations under the US-China Tech War."  Wilson China Fellowship Paper.

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Chen, Ling. 2021."State and Business Players in the Evolution of China's Industrial Development." Congressional Testimony before the US-China Economic & Security Review Commission.

 

Chen, Ling. 2018. "How this Trade War Could Backfire — in China’s Favor." The Washington Post, June 25 (2018) 

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Chen, Ling. 2018. “More Centralized Control Threatens China's Economic Model." Axios, expert voices, January 23. 

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Works in Progress

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Book 

Chen, Ling. Ambivalent Capitalism and the Authoritarian State (book project in progress)

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Ling Chen, Xiuyu Li, and Kellee Tsai. Authoritarian Capitalism: Economic Pathways and Social Foundations. (in progress)

 

Articles

​Tianyuan Zhao, Ling Chen, and David Steinberg. "National Security and Public Support for Tariffs." (working paper)

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Chen, Ling and Qi Zhang. “The Concentration of Political and Economic Power.” (research in progress)

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