Ph.D. in Public Administration, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

BS in Public Affairs, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Associate Professor, at Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 2025.03-

Associate Professor, at School of Government, East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China, 2019.09-2025.03

Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods in Social Science

Performance Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Behavioral Experiments

Organizational Design Consulting

Organizational Behavior

Managerial Communication

Managerial Decision-making

Frontier Research and Theory in Public Administration

Applied Research Methods in Public Administration

• Wang, X., Jing, Y., Xu, J., Cui, J., Du, J., Guo, J.,Guo, L., Hsieh, C., Liu, P., Tong, Y., Tu, W., Yang, F., Yang, L., Zang, L., & Zhang, P. (2024). Understanding policy implementation capacity in China. Global Public Policy and Governance, 4(2), 105-112.

• Yang, F., Yao S. & Li Y. (2023). Solidarity mobilization and citizen participation effectiveness in urban area： the case of community recycling program. Cities. 143. 104623

• Yang, F., & Li, Y. (2024). Solo dance or Pas de Deux? The sector stereotype matters in coproduction. Public Performance & Management Review, 47(2), 323-348.

• Yang, F., Wang, S., & Zhang, Z. (2022). State-enlisted voluntarism in China: the role of public security volunteers in social stability maintenance. The China Quarterly, 249, 47-67.

• Yang, F., Huang, X., & Li, Z. (2022). Gender, situational visibility, and discretionary decision-making of regulatory street-level bureaucrats under pandemic emergency: an experimental study in China. Public Management Review, 24(8), 1312-1329. 

• Yang, F., Zhang, Z., & Wang, S. (2022). Enlisting citizens: forging the effectiveness of policy implementation in local China. Journal of Chinese Governance, 7(3), 400-417.

• Yang, F., Li, Z., & Huang, X. (2021). Frontline information disclosure and street-level bureaucrats’ willingness to follow the rules: evidence from local regulatory agencies in China. International Public Management Journal, 24(6), 831-845.

• Zhang, Y., Yang, F.^*, & Zhao, M. (2021). Managerial Communication and Frontline Workers’ Willingness to Abide by Rules: Evidence from Local Security Agencies in China. The American Review of Public Administration, 51(4), 293-307.

• Wang S. & Yang F. (2020) Adaptive Social Mobilization in Grassroots Policy Implementation: Administrative Control and Multiple Participation, Social Sciences in China (《中国社会科学》（英文版）), 41:4, 85-104.

• Priupolina, Elizaveta., Yang, Fan. Decrypting Chinese Politics: Critical Discourse Analysis meets fsQCA. In Nele Noesselt (eds...

• 2022,  ARTICLE OF THE YEAR 2021, THE SECTION ON CHINESE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (SCPA) OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (ASPA)