Research

My Publications

Wang, Howard H., Edmund W. Cheng^{^}, Xi Chen^{^}, and Hai Liang^* (2025). How Institutionalized Feedback Works: Online Citizen Complaints and Local Government Responsiveness in China. Governance, 38(2):1–24. [Paper] [Replication] [Replication File Downloaded 3,270 times]
Governance is the Q1 Journal in both political science and public administration in 2024; one of five 4‑star journals in Public Administration in the 2024 ABS Academic Journal Guide

- Ranks among the top 5% of all research outputs assessed by Altmetric.

- Please see comments from Japanese users engaging on X (formerly Twitter) at [Link]

- Seminar presentation: Tsinghua University Biweekly Seminar on Computational Social Science [Link], Nov. 11, 2024

- Online promotion at “在学术界谋生存”微信公众号 [Link]

- Online promotion at “公共管理研究”微信公众号 [Link]

- Wiley Top Cited Article 2025 (with certificate) [Link]

- Wiley Top Viewed Article 2025 (with certificate) [Link]
Wang, Hao & Wei Li^* (2023). Could Politicization Improve Administrative Effectiveness? Evidence from Party-led Reform of Social Conflict Resolution in X City, China. Book chapter. London, UK: Routledge. [Chapter]
Tang, Huangfeng^{^}, Hao Wang^* (2020). Strong Political Party and Its Social Basis: The Mechanism Analysis of the Chinese Communist Party Taking Root in Beijing, 1949-1952. Chinese Political Science Review, 5, 457–487. [Paper] [Journal Impact Factor was 3.4 in 2023]
唐皇凤^{^}、王豪. 《可控的韧性治理：新时代基层社会治理现代化的模式选择》[Controllable Resilience Governance: A New Paradigm Option for the Modernization of Grassroots Social Governance in the New Era], 《探索与争鸣》2019年第12期. [Paper] [CSSCI] [《高等学校文科学术文摘》2020年第2期转摘; 中国知网被引310次, 下载9768次; 爱思想网转载]
王豪. 《复杂性科学视野下政治系统的发展——从政治能量到政治势能》, 《系统科学学报》2020年第1期. [中国知网被引11次; 该文被国关国政外交学人公众号全文转载，并被搜狐网全文转载 Link]
王豪、文婧. 《帝制时代中国基层社会治理模式的生成逻辑及其当代启示》, 《中共宁波市委党校学报》, 2020年第6期.

Note: * denotes the corresponding author; ^ denotes advisor or supervisor.

Working Papers

Government Responsiveness Quality in China (Job Market Paper)
- Presented at The Workshop of Political Science Speaker Series [Link], Dec. 16, 2023

- Presented at Tsinghua University Workshop on Comparative Analysis of Urban Governance [Link1][Link2], Beijing, China, Dec. 17, 2024

- Presented at Asia-Pacific Politics and Public Administration Conference (APPPA) & 8th Empirical Political Science in Hong Kong Workshop (EPSHK) [Link]University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 15, 2025
Howard H. Wang (2026, R&R). Strategic Recentralization: What 33-Year Data of Prefectural Party Secretaries in China Tell Us. Journal of East Asian Studies
What Drives Conspiracy Endorsement? (With Prof Edmund CHENG at CityUHK; reviewed by AJPS in May 2025)
Street Protests and Political Selection in China (With Prof Christian GÖBEL, University of Vienna; reviewed by AJPS in Dec 2024 and reviewed by JOP in Mar 2025 (One reviewer from JOP recommended publication))
- Presented at The 3rd International Conference on Computational Social Science [Link][Link2], The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Jan. 18, 2025

- Presented at The Seminar at Political Science Speaker Series [Link], Online Seminar, Mar 15 (Sat, Beijing time), 2025
Xi Chen and Howard H. Wang*. (reviewed by JOP in Oct 2025). Institution Building for Government Responsiveness
- Presented at The 2023 Annual Conference of Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) [Link1], Chicago, United States, Apr. 13-16, 2023

- Presented at The 2025 Asia Pacific Public Policy Network (AP-PPN), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) [Link1], Hong Kong, China, May 22-23, 2025
Howard H. Wang and Edmund CHENG*. (Reviewed by CP in Sep 2025). The Boundaries of Government Responsiveness in China
Elite Control in China (With Prof Christian GÖBEL and Dr Feng TANG)

Selected Work in Progress

The Rise of Online Petitions in China
Decoding Low Fertility Intentions in East Asia (With Prof Edmund CHENG at CityUHK)
Political Generation and Public Servants’ Ideology in China (With Dr Dongdong BIAN)