I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. My research focuses on the domestic and international politics of authoritarian regimes, historical political economy, and China.

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Books

The Art of Political Control in China. (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2020). When and why do people obey political authority when it runs against their own interests to do so? This book is about the channels beyond direct repression through which China's authoritarian state controls protest and implements ambitious policies from sweeping urbanization schemes to family planning initiatives.

Autocracy Reborn: How Revolutionary Leaders Changed China. (Working manuscript.) What explains the rise of a leader like Xi Jinping: someone who consolidates political power and also makes a significant change to the ideological direction of the country? In this book, I argue that leaders with stronger ties to the regime’s coercive apparatus are more likely to consolidate power and make revolutionary changes to a regime's core ideology

published Articles

Daniel Mattingly. “How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign-Domestic Threat Dilemma in China.” Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science. (PDF, Online Appendix, Replication Files)

  • Luebbert Best Article Award, APSA Comparative Politics Section

  • Honorable Mention, Best Article Award, ASPA Democracy and Autocracy Section.

Daniel Mattingly and James Sundquist. “When Does Public Diplomacy Succeed? Evidence from China's ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomats.” Forthcoming, Political Science Research and Methods. (PDF, Online Appendix, Replication Files)

Daniel Mattingly and Chen Ting. “The Missionary Roots of Nationalism: Evidence from China.” Journal of Politics 84:3 (2022):1638-51. (PDF, Online Appendix, Replication Files)

Daniel Mattingly and Elaine Yao. “How Soft Propaganda Persuades.” Comparative Political Studies. 55:9 (2022):1569-1594. (PDF, Online Appendix, Replication Files)

Mai Hassan, Daniel Mattingly, and Elizabeth Nugent. “Political Control.” Annual Review of Political Science. 25 (2022):155–74. (PDF)

Trevor Incerti, Daniel Mattingly, Frances Rosenbluth, Seiki Tanaka, and Jiahua Yue. “Hawkish Partisans: How Political Parties Shape Nationalist Conflicts in China and Japan.” British Journal of Political Science. 51:4 (2021): 1494-1515. (PDF, Online Appendix, Replication Files)

Daniel Mattingly. “Responsive or Repressive? How Frontline Bureaucrats Enforce the One Child Policy in China.” Comparative Politics. 52:2 (2020): 269-288. (PDF, Online Appendix)

Daniel Mattingly. “Colonial Legacies and State Institutions in China: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.” Comparative Political Studies. 50:4 (2017): 434 - 463. (PDF, Replication Files)

Denise van der Kamp, Daniel Mattingly, and Peter Lorentzen. “Racing to the Bottom or to the Top? Decentralization, Revenue Pressures, and Governance Reform in China.”  World Development. Volume 95, July 2017: 164-176. (PDF, Online Appendix)

Daniel Mattingly. “Elite Capture: How Decentralization and Informal Institutions Weaken Property Rights in Rural China.” World Politics. 68:3 (2016): 383 - 412. (PDF, Online Appendix, Replication Files)

Selected Working papers

Trevor Incerti, Changwook Ju, Daniel Mattingly, Colin Moreshead, Seiki Tanaka, and Hikaru Yamagishi. “Chinese State Media Persuades a Global Audience That the “China Model” is Superior: Evidence From A 19-Country Experiment.” (PDF, Pre-analysis Plan)