| How China Escaped the Poverty Trap YY Ang Cornell University Press, 2016 | 695 | 2016 |
| China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption YY Ang Cambridge University Press, 2020 | 318 | 2020 |
| Perverse Complementarity: Political Connections and the Use of Courts Among Private Firms in China YY Ang, N Jia The Journal of Politics 76 (2), 318-332, 2014 | 152 | 2014 |
| When COVID-19 Meets Centralized, Personalized Power YY Ang Nature Human Behaviour 4 (5), 445-447, 2020 | 125 | 2020 |
| Counting Cadres: A Comparative View of the Size of China's Public Employment YY Ang The China Quarterly 211, 676-696, 2012 | 106 | 2012 |
| Beyond Weber: Conceptualizing an Alternative Ideal Type of Bureaucracy in Developing Contexts YY Ang Regulation & Governance 11 (3), 282-298, 2017 | 85 | 2017 |
| Autocracy with Chinese Characteristics: Beijing's Behind-the-Scenes Reforms YY Ang Foreign Affairs 97, 39, 2018 | 84 | 2018 |
| Domestic Flying Geese: Industrial Transfer and Delayed Policy Diffusion in China YY Ang The China Quarterly 234, 420-443, 2018 | 79* | 2018 |
| Demystifying Belt and Road: The Struggle to Define China’s “Project of the Century”’ YY Ang Foreign Affairs 22, 2019 | 76* | 2019 |
| Unbundling Corruption: Revisiting Six Questions on Corruption YY Ang Global Perspectives 1 (1), 2020 | 55 | 2020 |
| Authoritarian Restraints on Online Activism Revisited: Why “I-Paid-a-Bribe” Worked in India but Failed in China YY Ang Comparative Politics 47 (1), 21-40, 2014 | 55 | 2014 |
| Co-optation & Clientelism: Nested Distributive Politics in China’s Single-Party Dictatorship YY Ang Studies in Comparative International Development 51, 235-256, 2016 | 31 | 2016 |
| The Promise and Pitfalls of Government Guidance Funds in China Y Wei, YY Ang, N Jia The China Quarterly, 1-21, 2023 | 30 | 2023 |
| Integrating Big Data and Thick Data to Transform Public Services Delivery YY Ang IBM Center for the Business of Government, 2019 | 19 | 2019 |
| The Real China Model: It’s Not What You Think It Is YY Ang Foreign Affairs, 29 June 2018 (online), 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
| Do Weberian Bureaucracies Lead to Markets or Vice Versa? A Coevolutionary Approach to Development YY Ang States in the Developing World (edited by Kohli et al), 2016 | 19 | 2016 |
| The Robber Barons of Beijing: Can China Survive Its Gilded Age? YY Ang Foreign Affairs 100, 30, 2021 | 13 | 2021 |
| How Resilient is the CCP? YY Ang Journal of Democracy 33 (3), 77-91, 2022 | 12 | 2022 |
| Ambiguity and Clarity in China's Adaptive Policy Communication YY Ang The China Quarterly 257, 20-37, 2024 | 11 | 2024 |
| Going Local 2.0: How to Reform Development Agencies to Make Localized Aid More Than Talk YY Ang Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2018 | 11* | 2018 |
