Research Papers

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. Online First. [Paper] [Replication] [Downloaded 1666 times]

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

  - Pls see fascinating X (i.e., Twitter) Japanese users' comments at [Link]

  - Online 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]

• 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249次, 下载8735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

• How Institutionalized Vertical Accountability Enhances Government Responsiveness 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

• What Drives Conspiracy Endorsement? Interactions between Political Values, Comprehension Ability, and Information Access (With Prof Edmund CHENG at CityUHK; under review at A***)
• How Street Protests Influence Political Selection in China (With Prof Christian GÖBEL, University of Vienna; under review at Jo*)

  - 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*. (2025, Under Review). Institution Building for Authoritarian Responsiveness: The Case of 12345 Hotlines

  - 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*. (2025, Under Review). Institutionalized Facilitation: Digital Platform as a Resolution for Government-Citizen Conflicts under Authoritarianism
• Howard H. Wang (2025, Under Review). Beyond Performance and Patronage: The Rise of Security Logic in China’s Political Selection System, 1990–2022
• Post-Performance Authoritarianism: Elite control logics From Developmental States to Security State (With Prof Christian GÖBEL and Dr Feng TANG)
• Consequences of Collective Resistance: A Review Essay

Selected Work in Progress

• The Rise of Online Petitions in China: Local Leader Message Boards, Localized Petition Websites, and 12345 Hotlines
• Decoding Low Fertility Intentions in China: Evidence from Seven Waves of CGSS Surveys and Weibo Text Analysis (With Prof Edmund CHENG at CityUHK)
• Testing Huntington’s Theory: How Government Responsiveness Maintains Social Stability in China (With Yuhan HU, PhD candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford)
• How Political Generation Shapes Public Servant’s Ideology in China: Evidence from CGSS Surveys and Semi-Structured Interviews (With Dr Dongdong BIAN)