The Art of Political Control in China. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Best Book Award, APSA Democracy and Autocracy Section
Best Books of 2020, Foreign Affairs
Gaddis Smith International Book Prize
Media: New York Review of Books, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, Washington Post - Monkey Cage, ChinaFile, New Books Podcast, MacMillan Report, SCCC Podcast
published Articles
Daniel Mattingly, Trevor Incerti, Changwook Ju, 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, Online Appendix, Pre-analysis Plan) Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science.
Daniel Mattingly. “How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign-Domestic Threat Dilemma in China.” American Journal of Political Science. 68(1) (2024): 227-242. (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.” Political Science Research and Methods. 11:4 (2023): 921-929. (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
Tyler Jost and Daniel Mattingly. “Networks of Coercion: Military Ties and Civilian Leadership Challenges in China.“ Revise and resubmit, American Journal of Political Science.
book project
Autocracy Reborn: The Rise of Transformative Leaders in China. This ongoing book project examines the role of the military in elite politics, revolutions, and coup attempts in modern China. It draws on a new dataset of military elites, newly released documents, archival research, and fine-grained data on revolutionary movements.