Working Papers

Competitive Dynamics in Organizations, with Qijing Yang. Under review. PDF
Best Paper Award 2025, Institutional and Organizational Economics Academy (IOEA) .

Does Halting Institutional Adaptation Weaken Authoritarian Resilience? Evidence from Village Elections in China, with John James Kennedy.

Work in Progress

The Nature and Origins of Affective Polarization, with Inglez Nguyen Kristy.

Social Ties and Political Regime Transitions (Dissertation).

Publications

Journal Articles

Yang, Jingran. (2026). Misreading social identity theory: Why affective-polarisation research got it wrong. Political Studies Review, 0(0). Link PDF

Yang, Qijing and Jingran Yang. (2019). “Promotion Tournaments: Contributions and Challenges of Tournament Theory” (in Chinese). Comparative Economic & Social Systems, No. 2, pp. 156–164. Link

Yang, Jingran and Peiheng Wang. (2014). “Tournament Incentives in Channel Management of Automobile Assembly Enterprises” (in Chinese). Systems Engineering, No. 5, pp. 123–127. Link