The Enduring Power of Communism in the Developing World: The International Origins of Authoritarian Consolidation (Oxford University Press, 2026).
Responsive Authoritarianism in China: Land, Protests and Policy Making (Cambridge University Press, 2016) (reviewed in China Journal, Vol. 18, July 2018; China Review, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2019)
"Province Administers County reforms and Administrative Urbanization in China” China Policy Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, p. 1-30 (2026)
"Authoritarian Aid and Regime Durability: Soviet Aid to the Developing World and Donor-Recipient Institutional Complementarity and Capacity” International Studies Quarterly Vol. 64, No. 4, p. 968-979 (2020)
"Fighting for Every Inch of Land: Greed and Grievance in Petition Mobilization in Zhejiang” Modern China, Vol. 46, No. 4, 400-432 (2019).
"Unemployment Among Land-Losing Farmers in China: Evidence from the 2010 Census” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 28, No. 117 (2019)
"Land Protests in Rural China” in Teresa Wright’s Handbook of Dissent and Protest in China, Edward Elgar Publishing (2019). Featured in Economist, October 6, 2018, “Why are protests so common in China?”
"(Dis)Trusting NGOs in China” in Reza Hasmath and Jennifer Hsu (eds.) NGO Management and Governance in China, (Routledge, 2015).
"Power and Rule by Law in Rural China: State-Initiated Mediation in Land Disputes,” Co-authored with Changdong Zhang in Fu Hualing and John Gillespie (eds.) Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia. (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
"Old Laws, New Citizens: Confidence in Legal Institutions in the Former East Germany” German Politics (2012) 21 (4), pg. 411-428
"Governing Civil Society: The Political Logic of NGO-State Relations Under Dictatorship,” VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (2010), 21 (2), pg. 220-239
