Assistant Professor
Chen, Ling. 2023. “Institutional Rebound: Why Reforming China’s State-Owned Enterprises Is So Difficult." Comparative Politics 56(2).
Chen, Ling and Miles Evers. 2023. “Wars without Gun Smoke: Global Supply Chains, Power Politics, and Economic Statecraft.” International Security 48 (2).
Chen, Ling. 2022. “Getting China’s Political Economy Right: State, Business and Authoritarian Capitalism.” Perspectives on Politics 20(4): 1397 – 1402.
Chen, Ling and Florian Hollenbach. 2022. "Capital Mobility and Taxation: State-Business Collusion in China." International Studies Quarterly 66(1).
Winner, 2022 American Political Science Association (APSA) Best Comparative Policy Award
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.
Chen, Ling. 2018. Manipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Chen, Ling, 2017. “Grounded Globalization: Foreign Capital and Local Bureaucrats in China’s Economic Transformation.” World Development 98: 381-399.
Chen, Ling. 2014. “Varieties of Global Capital and the Paradox of Local Upgrading in China.” Politics & Society 42(2): 223-252.
Chen, Ling. 2010. “Playing The Market Reform Card: The Changing Patterns Of Political Struggle In Chinas Electric Power Sector.” The China Journal 64: 69-95.
Chen, Ling. 2008. “Institutional Inertia, Adjustment, and Change: Japan as a Case of a 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.
Chen, Ling. Ambivalent Capitalism and the Authoritarian State in China (book project in progress)
Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award
Chen, Ling, Xiuyu Li, and Kellee Tsai. "Pathways to Authoritarian Capitalism." (working paper)
Chen, Ling and Qi Zhang. “The Concentration of Political and Economic Power.” (research in progress)
Chen, Ling. 2022. "Changing State-Business Relations under the US-China Tech War." Wilson China Fellowship Paper.
Chen, Ling. 2018. "How this Trade War Could Backfire — in China’s favor." The Washington Post, June 25.
Chen, Ling. 2018. “More Centralized Control Threatens China's Economic model." Axios, January 23.
Chen, Ling. 2013. “Dongya yu lamei guojia gongyehua de lujing” [The Paths of Industrialization in East Asia and Latin America]. Caijing Kexue [The Journal of Finance & Economics] 1: 255-260 (In Chinese).
Ling Chen quoted in South China Morning Post, 12/22
Ling Chen wrote in American Journal of Political Science, 08/25
Ling Chen quoted in South China Morning Post, 07/31
Ling Chen quoted in The New York Times, 06/17
Ling Chen quoted in Financial Times, 04/30
Ling Chen testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, 04/15
Ling Chen quoted in The Washington Post’s The Lily, 04/05
Ling Chen interviewed for National Committee on United States - China Relations, 10/21
Ling Chen interviewed for Duke University’s Department of Political Science 9/3
Ling Chen, Anne O. Krueger, and Matthias Matthijs surveyed in Foreign Affairs, 12/17
Ling Chen interviewed on SupChina podcast, 5/30