Studies of China Outside of China Studies (A bibliography of research articles on the People s Republic of China in selected non-specialist political science journals) Originally compiled by Marie-Eve Reny, University of Toronto, for What Happened to the Study of China in Comparative Politics? Journal of East Asian Studies: January- April 2011, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 105-135. Updated and extended by Alexsia Chan, Jonathan Hassid, Jieun Kim, Sarah Lee, Daniel Mattingly, Sara Newland, Ting Ni, and Ariel Yun Tang under the supervision of Peter Lorentzen. Chinese language summaries of many of these articles have been prepared by a team led by Kecheng Fang of the University of Pennsylvania. This version: May 2016. Corrections or updates may be sent to lorentzen@berkeley.edu. Journals surveyed: American Journal of Political Science (1990-), American Political Science Review (1990-), British Journal of Political Science (1990-), Comparative Political Studies (1998-), Comparative Politics (1998-), International Organization (1990 ), Journal of Communication (2010-), Journal of Politics (1998-), Political Communication (2010-), Political Research Quarterly (2010-), Political Science Research and Methods (2013-), Quarterly Journal of Political Science (2006-), World Politics (1990-). 1 1 Note: Area studies journals regularly publishing research on Chinese politics include Asian Survey, China Information, China Journal, China Quarterly, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Journal of East Asian Studies, and Modern China.
General interest journals (AJPS, APSR, BJPS, JOP, PRQ, PSRM, QJPS) American Journal of Political Science (1990-) Forthcoming Zhu, Boliang. "MNCs, Rents, and Corruption: Evidence from China." American Journal of Political Science. Forthcoming. 2015 Chen, J., Pan, J. and Xu, Y. 2016. Sources of Authoritarian Responsiveness: A Field Experiment in China. American Journal of Political Science, 60: 383 400 Lorentzen, Peter.. China s Strategic Censorship. American Journal of Political Science 58 (2):402 414. 2012 Lu, Xiaobo, Kenneth Scheve, and Matthew J. Slaughter. 2012. "Inequity Aversion and the International Distribution of Trade Protection." American Journal of Political Science 56 (3):638 654. 2009 Guo, Gang. 2009. China s Local Political Budget Cycles, American Journal of Political Science 53 (3):621-632. 1996 Kochin, Michael S. 1996. Decollectivization of Agriculture and the Planned Economy, American Journal of Political Science 40 (3):717-739 1993 Tang, Wen Fang. 1993. Workplace Participation in Chinese Local Industries, American Journal of Political Science 37 (3):920-940
American Political Science Review (1990-) 2015 Huang, Haifeng. 2015. International Knowledge and Domestic Evaluations in a Changing Society: The Case of China. American Political Science Review. Kim, Sungmoon. 2015. Public Reason Confucianism: A Construction. American Political Science Review 109 (1):187-200. Xu, Yiqing and Yang Yao. 2015. Informal Institutions, Collective Action, and Public Investment in Rural China. American Political Science Review 109 (2):371 391. Lu, Xiaobo and Pierre Landry.. Show Me the Money: Interjurisdiction Political Competition and Fiscal Extraction in China. American Political Science Review 108 (3):706 722. Truex, Rory.. The Returns to Office in a Rubber-Stamp Parliament. American Political Science Review 108 (2):235 251. Lu, Xiaobo.. Social Policy and Regime Legitimacy: The Effects of Education Reform in China. American Political Science Review 108 (2):423-437 2013 King, Gary, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret E Roberts. 2013. How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression. American Political Science Review 107 (2):166-187. 2012 Shih, Victor, Christopher Adolph, and Mingxing Liu. 2012. Getting Ahead in the Communist Party: Explaining the Advancement of Central Committee Members in China. American Political Science Review 106 (1):166-187. 2011 Kung, James Kai-sing and Shuo Chen. 2011. The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China's Great Leap Famine. American Political Science Review 105(1):27-45
2007 Tsai, Lily L. 2007. Solidary Groups, Informal Accountability, and Local Public Goods Provision in Rural China, American Political Science Review 101 (2):355-372. 1997 Jennings, M. Kent. 1997. Political Participation in the Chinese Countryside, American Political Science Review 91 (2): 361-372 1996 Manion, Melanie. 1996. The Electoral Connection in the Chinese Countryside, American Political Science Review 90 (4): 736-748 British Journal of Political Science (1990-) 2016 Wallace, Jeremy L. 2016. "Juking the stats? Authoritarian information problems in China." British Journal of Political Science 46(1): 11-29. 2015 Huang, Haifeng. 2015. "A war of (mis) information: The political effects of rumors and rumor rebuttals in an authoritarian country." British Journal of Political Science: 1-29. 2013 Kim, Sungmoon. 2013. To Become a Confucian Democratic Citizen: Against Meritocratic Elitism. British Journal of Political Science 43(3): 579-599. 2010 Fishkin, James S., Baogang He, Robert C. Luskin, and Alice Siu. 2010. Deliberative Democracy in an Unlikely Place: Deliberative Polling in China. British Journal of Political Science 40(2): 435-448. 2009 Huang, Yasheng, and Sheng Yumin. 2009. Political Decentralization and Inflation: Sub- National Evidence from China. British Journal of Political Science 39(2): 389-412.
2008 Cai, Yongshun. 2008. Power Structure and Regime Resilience: Contentious Politics in China. British Journal of Political Science 38(3): 411-432 2000 Ding, X. L. 2000. Informal Privatization Through Internationalization: The Rise of Nomenklatura Capitalism in China's Offshore Businesses. British Journal of Political Science 30: 121-146. 1994 Ding, X. L. 1994. Institutional Amphibiousness and the Transition from Communism: The Case of China. British Journal of Political Science 24 (3): 293-318
Journal of Politics (1998-) Ang, Yuen Yuen, and Nan Jia.. Perverse Complementarity : Political Connections and the Use of Courts among Private Firms in China. The Journal of Politics 76 (2): 318-332. Lorentzen, Peter, Pierre Landry, and John Yasuda.. Undermining Authoritarian Innovation : The Power of China s Industrial Giants. The Journal of Politics 76 (1):182-194. 2013 Wallace, Jeremy. 2013."Cities, redistribution, and authoritarian regime survival." The Journal of Politics 75 (3): 632-645. Flores-Macías, Gustavo A., and Sarah E. Kreps. 2013. "The Foreign Policy Consequences of Trade: China s Commercial Relations with Africa and Latin America, 1992 2006. " The Journal of Politics 75 (2): 357-371. 2008 Shih, Victor Chung-Hon. 2008. Nauseating Displays of Loyalty: Monitoring the Factional Bargain through Ideological Campaigns in China. The Journal of Politics 70 (4): 1177-1192. 2005 Jennings, M. Kent, and Ning Zhang. 2005. Generations, Political Status, and Collective Memories in the Chinese Countryside, The Journal of Politics 67 (4): 1164-1189. 2002 Chen, Jie, and Yang Zhong. 2002. Why Do People Vote in Semicompetitive Elections in China? The Journal of Politics 64 (1): 178-197. 1999 Shi, Tianjian. 1999. Voting and Nonvoting in China: Voting Behavior in Plebiscitary and Limited-Choice Elections. The Journal of Politics 61 (4): 1115-1139 1998 Jennings, M. Kent. 1998. Gender and Political Participation in the Chinese Countryside, The Journal of Politics 60 (4): 954-973.
Political Research Quarterly (2010-) Lewis-Beck, Michael S., Wenfang Tang, and Nicholas F. Martini. "A Chinese Popularity Function Sources of Government Support." Political Research Quarterly 67.1 (): 16-25. Huang, Haifeng. "Signal Left, Turn Right Central Rhetoric and Local Reform in China." Political Research Quarterly 66.2 (2013): 292-305. Chen, Jie, and Chunlong Lu. "Democratization and the middle class in China The middle class s attitudes toward democracy." Political Research Quarterly 64.3 (2011): 705-719. Political Science Research and Methods (2013-) Forthcoming Huang, Haifeng, Serra Boranbay, and Ling Huang. Forthcoming. "Media, Protest Diffusion, and Authoritarian Resilience." Political Science Research and Methods. Chen, Jidong, and Yiqing Xu. Forthcoming. "Information manipulation and reform in authoritarian regimes." Political Science Research and Methods Kung, James Kai-sing.. "The Emperor Strikes Back: Political Status, Career Incentives and Grain Procurement during China's Great Leap Famine." Political Science Research and Methods 2(2): 179-211. Quarterly Journal of Political Science (2006-) Distelhorst, Greg, and Yue Hou.. "Ingroup bias in official behavior: A national field experiment in China." Quarterly Journal of Political Science 9(2): 203-230. 2013 Lu, Xiaobo. 2013. Equality of Educational Opportunity and Attitudes toward Income Inequality: Evidence from China. Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 8(3): 271-303. Lorentzen, Peter L. 2013. "Regularizing rioting: Permitting public protest in an authoritarian regime." Quarterly Journal of Political Science 8(2): 127-158.
Comparative Politics Journals Comparative Political Studies (1998-) Forthcoming Fu, Diana. Disguised Collective Action in China. Comparative Political Studies. Forthcoming. Mattingly, Daniel C. Colonial Legacies and State Institutions in China: Evidence From a Natural Experiment. Comparative Political Studies. Forthcoming. Distelhorst, Greg. The Power of Empty Promises: Quasi-Democratic Institutions and Activism in China. Comparative Political Studies. Forthcoming. Meng, Tianguang, Jennifer Pan, and Ping Yang. "Conditional Receptivity to Citizen Participation: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in China." Comparative Political Studies. Forthcoming. Truex, Rory.. "Consultative Authoritarianism and Its Limits." Comparative Political Studies. Forthcoming. Manion, Melanie.. Good Types in Authoritarian Elections The Selectoral Connection in Chinese Local Congresses." Comparative Political Studies. 2016 Jiang, Junyan, and Dali Yang. Lying or Believing? Measuring Preference Falsification From a Political Purge in China. Comparative Political Studies. 49(5): 600-634. Harrison, Tom, and Genia Kostka.. Balancing Priorities, Aligning Interests Developing Mitigation Capacity in China and India." Comparative Political Studies 47(3): 450-480. 2013 Zhu, Jiangnan, Jie Lu, and Tianjian Shi. 2013. When Grapevine News Meets Mass Media: Different Information Sources and Perceptions of Government Corruption in Mainland China. " Comparative Political Studies 46(8): 920-946. 2012 Becker, Jeffrey. 2012. "The Knowledge to Act: Chinese Migrant Labor Protests in Comparative Perspective." Comparative Political Studies 45(11): 1379-1404.
Steinberg, David A., and Victor C. Shih. 2012. "Interest Group Influence in Authoritarian States: The Political Determinants of Chinese Exchange Rate Policy." Comparative Political Studies 45(11): 1405-1434. Stern, Rachel E., and Jonathan Hassid. 2012. "Amplifying Silence: Uncertainty and Control Parables in Contemporary China." Comparative Political Studies 45(10) : 1230-1254. Hsueh, Roselyn. 2012. "China and India in the Age of Globalization: Sectoral Variation in Post-Liberalization Reregulation." Comparative Political Studies 45(1): 32-61. 2011 Stockmann, Daniela, and Mary E. Gallagher. 2011. "Remote Control: How the Media Sustain Authoritarian Rule in China." Comparative Political Studies 44(4): 436-467. 2010 Landry, Pierre, Deborah Davis and Shiru Wang. 2010. "Elections in Rural China: Competition Without Parties." Comparative Political Studies 43(6): 763-490. 2008 Gilley, Bruce. 2008. "Legitimacy and Institutional Change: The Case of China." Comparative Political Studies 41(3): 259-284. Read, Benjamin L. 2008. "Assessing Variation in Civil Society Organizations: China s Homeowner Associations in Comparative Perspective." Comparative Political Studies 41(9): 1240-1265. 2007 Shih, Victor. 2007. "Partial Reform Equilibrium, Chinese Style: Political Incentives and Reform Stagnation in Chinese Financial Policies." Comparative Political Studies 40(10): 1238-1262. Guo, Gang. 2007. "Organizational Involvement and Political Participation in China." Comparative Political Studies 40(4): 457-482. Sheng, Yumin. (2007). "Global Market Integration and Central Political Control: Foreign Trade and Intergovernmental Relations in China." Comparative Political Studies 40(4): 405-434.
2006 Guan, Mei, and Donald P. Green. (2006). "Noncoercive Mobilization in State-Controlled Elections: An Experimental Study in Beijing." Comparative Political Studies 39(10): 1175-1193. Manion, Melanie. (2006). "Democracy, Community, Trust: The Impact of Elections in Rural China." Comparative Political Studies 39(3): 301-324. 2005 Zheng, Yongnian and Guoguang Wu. (2005). "Information Technology, Public Space, and Collective Action in China." Comparative Political Studies 38(5): 507-536. Tsai, Kellee S. (2005). "Capitalists without a Class: Political Diversity Among Private Entrepreneurs in China." Comparative Political Studies 38(9): 1130-1158. O Brien, Kevin and Lianjiang Li. (2005). "Popular Contention and its Impact in Rural China." Comparative Political Studies 38(3): 235-259. 2002 Zhong, Yang and Jie Chen. (2002). "To Vote or Not to Vote: An Analysis of Peasants Participation in Chinese Village Elections." Comparative Political Studies 35(6): 686-712. 2001 Zhou, Xueguang. (2001). "Political Dynamics and Bureaucratic Career Patterns in the People s Republic of China, 1949-1994." Comparative Political Studies 34(9): 1036-1062. 2000 Chhibber, Pradeep and Samuel Eldersveld. (2000). "Local Elites and Popular Support for Economic Reform in China and India." Comparative Political Studies 33(3): 350-373. Dickson, Bruce J. and Maria Rost Rublee. (2000). "Membership Has Its Privileges: The Socioeconomic Characteristics of Communist Party Members in Urban China." Comparative Political Studies 33(1): 87-112.
Comparative Politics (1998-) 2015 Huang, Haifeng. "Propaganda as Signaling." Comparative Politics 47(4): 419-444. Sorace, Christian. "The Communist Party's Miracle? The Alchemy of Turning Post- Disaster Reconstruction into Great Leap Development." Comparative Politics 47(4): 479-498. Tsai, Lily L. 2015. Constructive Noncompliance. Comparative Politics 47(3): 253-279. Ang, Yuen Yuen.. Authoritarian Restraints on Online Activism Revisited : Why I-Paid-A-Bribe Worked in India but Failed in China. Comparative Politics 47(1): 21-40(20). Hurst, William, Mingxing Liu, Yongdong Liu, and Ran Tao.. Reassessing Collective Petitioning in Rural China: Civic Engagement, Extra-State Violence, and Regional Variation. Comparative Politics 46(4): 459-482. 2012 Ong, Lynette H. 2012. Between Developmental and Clientelist States: Local State- Business Relationships in China. Comparative Politics 44(2): 191-209. 2011 Malesky, Edmund, Regina Abramina, and Yu Zheng. 2011. Institutions and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China. Comparative Politics 43(4): 409-427. 2009 Sun, Yan, and Michael Johnston. 2009. Does Democracy Check Corruption? Insights from China and India. Comparative Politics 41(1): 1-19. Lu, Jie, and Tianjian Shi. 2009. Political Experience: A Missing Variable in the Study of Political Transformation. Comparative Politics 42(1): 103-120. Chen, Xi. 2009. The Power of Troublemaking : Protest Tactics and their Efficacy in China. Comparative Politics 41(4): 451-471.
2008 Li, Lianjiang. 2008. "Political trust and petitioning in the Chinese countryside." Comparative Politics 40(2): 209-226. Wright, Teresa. 2008. "State-Society Relations in Reform-Era China: A Unique Case of Postsocialist State-Led Late Development?" Comparative Politics 40(3): 353-374. 2006 Mertha, Andrew C., and William R. Lowry. 2006. "Unbuilt Dams: Seminal Events and Policy Change in China, Australia, and the United States." Comparative Politics 39(1): 1-20. Andrew C. Mertha. 2006. "Policy Enforcement Markets: How Bureaucratic Redundancy Contributes to Effective Intellectual Property Implementation in China." Comparative Politics 38(3): 295-316. 2005 Solinger, Dorothy J. 2005. "Path Dependency Reexamined: Chinese Welfare Policy in the Transition to Unemployment." Comparative Politics 38(1): 83-101. Sinha, Aseema. 2005. "Political Foundations of Market-Enhancing Federalism: Theoretical Lessons from India and China." Comparative Politics 37(3): 337-356. Tong, Yanqi. 2005. "Environmental Movements in Transitional Societies: A Comparative Study of Taiwan and China." Comparative Politics 37(2): 167-188. 2002 Steinfeld, Edward S. 2002. "Moving Beyond Transition in China: Financial Reform and the Political Economy of Declining Growth." Comparative Politics 34(4): 379-398. Remick, Elizabeth. 2002. "The Significance of Variation in Local States: The Case of Twentieth Century China." Comparative Politics 34(4): 399-418. 2001 Thompson, Mark R. 2001. "To Shoot or Not to Shoot: Posttotalitarianism in China and Eastern Europe." Comparative Politics 34(1): 63-83. Shi, Tianjian. 2001. "Cultural Values and Political Trust: A Comparison of the People s Republic of China and Taiwan." Comparative Politics 33(4): 401-419.
Francis, Corinna-Barbara. 2001. "Quasi-Public, Quasi-Private Trends in Emerging Market Economies: The Case of China." Comparative Politics 33(3): 275-294. 2000 Lu, Xiaobo. 2000. "Booty Socialism, Bureau-Preneurs, and the State in Transition: Organizational Corruption in china." Comparative Politics 32(3): 273-294. 1999 Sun, Yan. 1999. "Reform, State, and Corruption: Is Corruption Less Destructive in China than in Russia?" Comparative Politics 32(1): 1-20. O Brien, Kevin J. and Lianjiang Li. 1999. "Selective Policy Implementation in Rural China." Comparative Politics 31(2): 167-186.
World Politics (1990-) 2016 Mattingly, Daniel. 2016. Elite Capture: How Decentralization and Informal Institutions Weaken Property Rights in Rural China. World Politics 68(3). Rithmire, Meg E.. China's New Regionalism : Subnational Analysis in Chinese Political Economy. World Politics 66(1):165-194. 2012 McNally, Christopher A. 2012. Sino-Capitalism : China s Reemergence and the International Political Economy, World Politics 64(4): 741-776. 2006 Cai, Hongbin, and Daniel Treisman. 2006. Did Government Decentralization Cause China's Economic Miracle? World Politics 58(4): 505-535. Tsai, Kellee S. 2006, Adaptive Informal Institutions and Endogenous Institutional Change in China. World Politics 59(1): 116-141 2005 Pearson, Margaret M. 2005. The Business of Governing Business in China: Institutions and Norms of the Emerging Regulatory State. World Politics 57(2): 296-322. 2002 Gallagher, Mary Elizabeth. 2002. Reform and Openness": Why China's Economic Reforms Have Delayed Democracy. World Politics 54(3): 338-372. Dittmer, Lowell. 2002. "East Asia in the "new era" in world politics." World Politics 55(3): 38-65. 1999 Shi, Tianjian. 1999. Village Committee Elections in China: Institutionalist Tactics for Democracy. World Politics 51(3): 385-412. 1996 O'Brien, Kevin J. 1996. Rightful Resistance. World Politics 49(1): 31-55
Nathan, Andrew J., and Tianjian Shi. 1996. Left and Right with Chinese Characteristics: Issues and Alignments in Deng Xiaoping's China. World Politics 48(4): 522-550 Solnick, Steven L. 1996. The Breakdown of Hierarchies in the Soviet Union and China: A Neoinstitutional Perspective. 48(2): 209-238 1995 Montinola, Gabriella, Yingyi Qian, and Barry R. Weingast. 1995. Federalism, Chinese Style: The Political Basis for Economic Success in China. World Politics 48(1): 50-81 Dittmer, Lowell, and Yu-Shan Wu. 1995. The Modernization of Factionalism in Chinese Politics. World Politics 47(4): 467-494 1994 Huang, Yasheng. 1994. Information, Bureaucracy, and Economic Reforms in China and the Soviet Union. World Politics 47(1): 102-134 1992 Oi, Jean C.1992. Fiscal Reform and the Economic Foundations of Local State Corporatism in China. World Politics 45(1): 99-126 1990 White, Tyrene.1990. Postrevolutionary Mobilization in China: The One-Child Policy Reconsidered. World Politics 43(1): 53-76
International Relations Journals International Organization (1990-) 2013 Weiss, Jessica Chen. 2013. Authoritarian Signaling, Mass Audiences, and Nationalist Protest in China. International Organization 67(1): 1-35. 2005 Mertha, Andrew, and Robert Pahre. 2005. "Patently misleading: Partial implementation and bargaining leverage in Sino-American negotiations on intellectual property rights." International Organization 59(3): 695-729. 2004 Hui, Victoria Tin-bor. 2004. Toward a Dynamic Theory of International Politics: Insights from Comparing Ancient China and Early Modern Europe. International Organization 58(1): 175-205. 2003 Callahan, William A. 2003. Beyond Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Diasporic Chinese and Neo-Nationalism in China and Thailand. International Organization 57(3):481 517.
Other Specialist Journals (non-china/asia) Journal of Communication Jiang, Min.. "Search Concentration, Bias, and Parochialism: A Comparative Study of Google, Baidu, and Jike's Search Results From China." Journal of Communication 64(6): 1088-1110. 2013 Yuan, Elaine J., Miao Feng, and James A. Danowski. 2013. " Privacy in semantic networks on Chinese social media: The case of Sina Weibo." Journal of Communication 63(6): 1011-1031. 2012 Hassid, Jonathan. 22012. "Safety valve or pressure cooker? Blogs in Chinese political life." Journal of Communication 62(2): 212-230. Political Communication 2011 Lei, Ya-Wen. "The political consequences of the rise of the Internet: Political beliefs and practices of Chinese netizens." Political Communication 28.3: 291-322. Mou, Yi, David Atkin, and Hanlong Fu. 2011. "Predicting political discussion in a censored virtual environment." Political Communication 28.3: 341-356. Shi, Tianjian, Jie Lu, and John Aldrich. 2011. "Bifurcated images of the US in urban China and the impact of media environment." Political Communication 28.3: 357-376. Stockmann, Daniela. 2011. "Race to the bottom: Media marketization and increasing negativity toward the United States in China." Political Communication 28.3: 268-290. Tang, Wenfang, and Shanto Iyengar. 2011. "The emerging media system in China: Implications for regime change." Political Communication 28.3: 263-267.