Publications
Countering Capture: Elite Networks and Government Responsiveness in China's Land Market Reform, Journal of Politics, (with Yu Zeng), Forthcoming. [link]
Enlightened One-Party Rule? Ideological Differences between Chinese Communist Party Members and the Mass Public, Political Research Quarterly, (with Chengyuan Ji), Forthcoming. [pdf]
From Internet to Social Safety Net: the Policy Consequences of Online Participation in China. Governance. 32(3): 531-546 (with Tianguang Meng and Qing Zhang), 2019. [pdf]
Making Bureaucracy Work: Patronage Networks, Performance Incentives, and Economic Development in China. American Journal of Political Science. 62(4): 982-999, 2018 [pdf]
Lying or Believing? Measuring Preference Falsification from a Political Purge in China. Comparative Political Studies. 49(5): 600-634, (with Dali Yang), 2016. [pdf]
Enlightened One-Party Rule? Ideological Differences between Chinese Communist Party Members and the Mass Public, Political Research Quarterly, (with Chengyuan Ji), Forthcoming. [pdf]
From Internet to Social Safety Net: the Policy Consequences of Online Participation in China. Governance. 32(3): 531-546 (with Tianguang Meng and Qing Zhang), 2019. [pdf]
- Sage Best Paper Award (honorable mention) for best paper in comparative politics presented at APSA annual meeting 2016
Making Bureaucracy Work: Patronage Networks, Performance Incentives, and Economic Development in China. American Journal of Political Science. 62(4): 982-999, 2018 [pdf]
Lying or Believing? Measuring Preference Falsification from a Political Purge in China. Comparative Political Studies. 49(5): 600-634, (with Dali Yang), 2016. [pdf]
Working Papers
Friends with Benefits: Patronage Networks and Distributive Politics in China (with Muyang Zhang) [pdf] Reject & Resubmit
The Price of Probity: Anticorruption and Adverse Selection in the Chinese Bureaucracy (with Zijie Shao and Zhiyuan Zhang) [link]
Mandarins Make Markets: Leadership Rotation and Inter-Provincial Trade in China (with Yuan Mei) [pdf]
Leadership Styles and Political Survival of Chinese Communist Party Elites (with Zhaotian Luo) [link]
Informal Institutions and Authoritarian Information Systems: Theory and Evidence from China (with Jeremy Wallace) [link]
Tournament Characteristics: Accountability and Selection (with Pablo Montagnes and Stephane Wolton) [link]
The Price of Probity: Anticorruption and Adverse Selection in the Chinese Bureaucracy (with Zijie Shao and Zhiyuan Zhang) [link]
Mandarins Make Markets: Leadership Rotation and Inter-Provincial Trade in China (with Yuan Mei) [pdf]
Leadership Styles and Political Survival of Chinese Communist Party Elites (with Zhaotian Luo) [link]
Informal Institutions and Authoritarian Information Systems: Theory and Evidence from China (with Jeremy Wallace) [link]
Tournament Characteristics: Accountability and Selection (with Pablo Montagnes and Stephane Wolton) [link]
Work in Progress
Tyranny of the Knowledge Class (with Kinman Wan)
In the Shadows of Great Men (with Tianyang Xi and Haojun Xie)
Governing like China (with Zhaotian Luo)
Your Meat, My Poison (with Zigan Wang and Youan Wang)
In the Shadows of Great Men (with Tianyang Xi and Haojun Xie)
Governing like China (with Zhaotian Luo)
Your Meat, My Poison (with Zigan Wang and Youan Wang)