Journal articlePolitical Behavior · December 1, 2025
In a substantial literature on political trust in normal times, we know little about the impact on trust of crises or subsequent government efforts at correction. We investigate these impacts by analyzing a pair of similar governance failures in China, a s ...
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Journal articleBritish Journal of Political Science · July 22, 2023
We conceptualize broad purges, which extend far below top powerholders in authoritarian regimes and operate according to a logic fundamentally different from coup-proofing purges that target rivals to the supreme leader. Broad purges induce risk reduction ...
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Journal articleIssues and Studies · March 1, 2022
Survey data suggest that a high proportion of Chinese congress delegates sit concurrently in two or more congresses. While dual mandates are not unusual in democracies, the literature has failed to notice their existence in China, let alone theorize or ana ...
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Journal articleComparative Political Studies · July 1, 2021
We theorize and measure a situational self-censorship that varies across spatial-temporal political contexts. Schelling’s insight that distinctive times and places function as focal points has generated a literature explaining how activists coordinate for ...
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Journal articleStudies in comparative international development · January 2021
In this introduction to the special issue, we use the expression "China in the world" paradigm to define scholarship that purposefully migrates across the traditional borders of comparative politics and international relations in the study of China. We arg ...
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Journal articleComparative Political Studies · March 1, 2017
A new electoral design for subnational congress elections in China allows me to investigate the informational utility of authoritarian elections. Authoritarian regimes are notoriously bad at solving the moral hazard problem in the voter’s agency relationsh ...
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Journal articleEconomic and Political Studies · January 2, 2016
This article draws on a rich empirical literature on comparative corruption and rich theoretical literatures on the related topics of institutions and credible commitment to analyze China’s newest anticorruption campaign, ongoing today. It argues that the ...
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Journal articleChina Quarterly · June 17, 2014
This article draws on evidence from loosely structured interviews and data from original surveys of 5,130 delegates in township, county and municipal congresses to argue that congressional representation unfolds as authoritarian parochialism in China. It m ...
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Journal articleJournal of Contemporary China · June 1, 2009
In assessing Chinese village elections we must sort and discriminate as we consult the 'mountain of evidence' that has accumulated over the past two decades. We can find anecdotal evidence to support practically any claim about village democratization, but ...
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Journal articleChina Quarterly · December 1, 2008
In a political environment that remains (at best) officially sceptical about the enterprise, representative surveys on Chinese politics have nevertheless grown substantially in number in the past two decades: political scientists trained and based outside ...
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Journal articleChina Quarterly · September 22, 2008
This article draws on Party and government documents, Chinese-language books and articles, interviews and firsthand observation, and electoral outcome data to contribute to the emerging literature on the changing role of people's congresses in mainland Chi ...
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Journal articleComparative Political Studies · April 1, 2006
This article systematically investigates the impact of elections in rural China on a basic element of the elite-mass relationship: beliefs of ordinary citizens that their leaders are trustworthy. It analyzes data from two surveys of randomly sampled villag ...
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Journal articleChina Quarterly · September 1, 2000
The most recent round of township-level elections in China began in mid-1998. By the end of the year, 24 provinces had already completed elections at this level. In Chongqing municipality, which acquired its provincial-level status in 1997, the election of ...
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Journal articleIssues and Studies · January 1, 1998
This article examines two issues in corruption control in post-Mao China: a double standard of criminal justice and the politicized pattern of anti-corruption enforcement in the criminal justice system. The author makes two arguments: First, despite the wi ...
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Journal articleAmerican Political Science Review · January 1, 1996
A 1987 law established popularly elected milage committees in the Chinese countryside. This article analyzes a unique set of survey data to describe and explain the connection between village leaders and those who choose them, in terms of orientation to th ...
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Journal articleJournal of Law Economics and Organization · January 1, 1996
This article analyzes as a game a common form of corruption in Chinese bureaucracies: payment of bribes to officials for a standard good that is not in fixed supply and to which those paying bribes are, in principle, fully entitled. Formal structures and i ...
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