Publications
"Tea Leaf Elections: Inferring Purpose for Authoritarian Elections from Post-election Responses to Local Defeats." Journal of Politics, 84.4 (2002)
"The Role of Retributive Justice in Citizen Evaluations of Government: The Case of China." Journal of Politics, 84.1:602-606 (2022), with Lily Tsai and Sean (Shiyao) Liu.
"How Electoral Integrity Affects Voter Turnout in Democracies." Australian Journal of Political Science (2017), with Fernando Martínez i Coma.
Works in progress
"A Warning from Above: Why Authoritarian Anti-protest Propaganda Works." Under Review, with Mai Truong
"How Dictators Balance Electoral Certainty, Information, and Their Reputations by Manipulating Ballot Position: Evidence from China, Vietnam, and Russia." Working Paper, with Jason Todd
"Intercalibrating Nightlight Data from VIIRS-DNB and DMSP-OLS for Social Science Research." Working Paper.
"Do Responsive Officials or Sanctioning Officials Enhance Tax Compliance? Experimental Evidence from China." Working Paper, with Xiaobo Lü, Lily Tsai, and Ping Zhang
"Clans of Compatriots: Collusion and Competition in an Autocracy," with Quoc-Anh Do, Edmund Malesky, and Kieu-Trang Nguyen
"The Butler Did It: Manufactured Differential in Credit/Blame Attribution in Authoritarian Regime."