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12518
World Ranking
5500
National Ranking
2603

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1987 - Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, American Sociological Association
  • 1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Andrew G. Walder is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily contributes to the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, and Finance.

Walder's research topics include:

  • Chinese history and philosophy
  • Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Communism, Protests, Social Movements
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

The recent papers published by Walder reflect a consistent engagement with Chinese historical and social themes. These include:

  • "June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989" (2021), published in Journal of Cold War Studies
  • "Anatomy of a Regional Civil War: Guangxi, China, 1967-1968" (2021), published in Social Science History
  • "China's Extreme Inequality: The Structural Legacies of State Socialism" (2023), published in The China Journal
  • "Generating a Violent Insurgency: China's Factional Warfare of 1967-1968" (2020), published in American Journal of Sociology
  • "The Rapid Ascent of China's Corporate Giants" (2024), published in The China Journal

Walder has also published books with notable academic presses. These include "Civil War in Guangxi" (2023) published by Stanford University Press eBooks and "A Decade of Upheaval" (2021) published by Princeton University Press.

The frequent publication venues where Walder's work appears include:

  • The China Journal
  • Princeton University Press eBooks
  • American Political Science Review
  • Journal of Cold War Studies
  • Social Science History

Frequent collaborators in research include:

  • Dong Guoqiang
  • Guoqiang Dong
  • Mary C. Brinton
  • David B. Grusky
  • Hans-Peter Blossfeld

Andrew G. Walder has received several awards during their career, such as the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the American Sociological Association in 1987, and the Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry

    Andrew George Walder

  • Local Governments as Industrial Firms: An Organizational Analysis of China's Transitional Economy

    Andrew George Walder

  • Career Mobility and the Communist Political Order

    Andrew George Walder

  • Markets and Inequality in Transitional Economies: Toward Testable Theories

    Andrew G. Walder

  • PROPERTY RIGHTS AND STRATIFICATION IN SOCIALIST REDISTRIBUTIVE ECONOMIES

    Andrew G. Walder

  • Politics and life chances in a state socialist regime : Dual career paths into the urban Chinese elite, 1949 to 1996

    Andrew George Walder;Bobai Li;Donald J. Treiman

  • Political Sociology and Social Movements

    Andrew G. Walder

  • Career Advancement as Party Patronage: Sponsored Mobility into the Chinese Administrative Elite, 1949-1996

    Bobai Li;Andrew G. Walder

  • Elite Opportunity in Transitional Economies

    Andrew George Walder

  • China's Transitional Economy: Interpreting its Significance

    Andrew George Walder

  • Factory and Manager in an Era of Reform

    Andrew G. Walder

  • Property Rights and Economic Reform in China

    Jean Chun Oi;Andrew George Walder

  • MARKETS AND INCOME INEQUALITY IN RURAL CHINA: POLITICAL ADVANTAGE IN AN EXPANDING ECONOMY

    Andrew George Walder

  • Wage Reform and the Web of Factory Interests

    Andrew G. Walder

  • China Under Mao

    Andrew G. Walder

  • Organized Dependency and Cultures of Authority in Chinese Industry

    Andrew G. Walder

  • Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement

    Andrew George Walder

  • The decline of communist power: Elements of a theory of institutional change

    Andrew G. Walder

  • Workers, Managers and the State: The Reform Era and the Political Crisis of 1989

    Andrew G. Walder

  • The waning of the communist state : economic origins of political decline in China and Hungary

    Andrew George Walder

  • Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry

    Paul Goldman;Andrew G. Walder

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald J. Treiman
Donald J. Treiman University of California, Los Angeles
Victor Nee
Victor Nee Cornell University
David Stark
David Stark Columbia University
Richard Swedberg
Richard Swedberg Cornell University

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