Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Yale University

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research

I study the domestic and international politics of authoritarian regimes, with a focus on China. My current book project focuses on the military and elite politics in China. My other ongoing projects examine China’s global media and foreign influence operations.

Books

The Art of Political Control in China. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Autocracy Reborn: How Coercion and Ideology Shape Elite Politics in China. Book Manuscript.

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.” Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science. (PDF, Online Appendix, Replication Files)

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.“ Accepted with minor revisions, American Journal of Political Science.

Naoki Egami, Donald Green, Eunji Kim, and Daniel Mattingly. “Assessing the Influence of Foreign Propaganda in Africa with a Placebo-Augmented Design.” Revise and resubmit, Journal of Politics.