Publications

Peer-reviewed Articles

• “Electoral Institutions and Repression in Dictatorships.” Electoral Studies. Accepted (with Yuree Noh). April 2024.
• “Ethnic Ties, Organized Opposition and Voter Defection in Authoritarian Elections.” Government and Opposition 58(3): 497-515 (with Yi-Tzu Lin). July 2023.
• “From Local Capture to Upper Capture: The Chinese Experiment of Administrative Courts.” China Review 22(3): 9-46 (with Chao Ma and Haibo He). August 2022.
• “Poverty Alleviation and State Building in Peripheral Areas: Evidence from China.” Japanese Journal of Political Science 22(4): 312-332. December 2021. [Dataverse]
• “Inequality in Policy Implementation: Caste and Electrification in Rural India.” Journal of Public Policy 41(2): 331-359 (with Michaël Aklin and Johannes Urpelainen). May 2021.
• “Government-led or Public-led? Chinese Policy Agenda Setting during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 23(2): 157-175 (with Yixin Dai, Yuejiang Li, Hong Zhao, and Tianguang Meng). April 2021.
• “Vested Interests: Examining the Political Obstacles to Power Sector Reform in Twenty Indian States.” Energy Research & Social Science 70(101766) (with YuJung Julia Lee, Galen Murray, Yuree Noh, Johannes Urpelainen, and Joseph van Horn). December 2020.
• “Criminal Politicians and Socioeconomic Development: Evidence from Rural India.” Studies in Comparative International Development 54(4): 501-527 (with Johannes Urpelainen). December 2019.
• “Social Acceptance of New Energy Technology in Developing Countries: A Framing Experiment in Rural India.” Energy Policy 113: 466-477 (with Michaël Aklin and Johannes Urpelainen). February 2018.
• “Geography, Community, Household: Adoption of Distributed Solar Power across India.” Energy for Sustainable Development 42: 54-63 (with Michaël Aklin and Johannes Urpelainen). February 2018. [Dataverse]
• “Factors Affecting Household Satisfaction with Electricity Supply in Rural India.” Nature Energy 1(16170) (with Michaël Aklin, Karthik Ganesan, Abhishek Jain, and Johannes Urpelainen). November 2016.
• “Unawareness and Indifference to Economic Reform among the Public: Evidence from India’s Power Sector Reform.” Economics of Governance 17(3): 211-239 (with Johannes Urpelainen). August 2016.
• “Support for Renewable Energy in China: A Survey Experiment with Internet Users.” Journal of Cleaner Production 112(5): 3750-3758 (with Dingding Chen and Johannes Urpelainen). January 2016.
• “Who Should Take the Garbage Out? Public Opinion on Waste Management in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.” Habitat International 46: 111-118 (with Johannes Urpelainen). April 2015.
• “Fuel Stacking in India: Changes in the Cooking and Lighting Mix, 1987-2010.” Energy 76(1): 306-317 (with Johannes Urpelainen). November 2014.

Peer-reviewed Articles [in Chinese]

• “The Chinese Experiment of Administrative Courts: Evidence from 240,000 Judgments” (行政法院的中国试验：基于24万份判决书的研究). Tsinghua University Law Journal (清华法学) 5: 192-205 (with Chao Ma and Haibo He). September 2021.
• “Will Reshaping the Bureaucratic Relationship Enhance the Government’s Responsiveness? A Policy Experiment Based on the ‘Whistle and Report’ Reform in Beijing” (重塑科层”条块”关系会提升政府回应性么？一项基于北京市”吹哨报到”改革的政策实验). Chinese Public Administration (中国行政管理) 4: 31-39 (with Tianguang Meng and Jinxu Zhao). April 2021.
• “Party Newspapers’ Layouts and Elite Interaction: People’s Daily and PLA Daily as Examples” (黨報版面語言和中共高層互動：以《人民日報》、《解放軍報》為例). Chinese Political Science Review (政治學報) 42: 37-78 (with Chien-wen Kou). December 2006.

Policy Reports and Invited Contributions

• “Access to Energy in Rural India: A Survey of Six States.” Ideas for India (with Abhishek Jain and Johannes Urpelainen). January 2016.
• “Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity: A Survey of States.” Council on Electricity, Energy, and Water (Delhi, India) and Columbia University (with Abhishek Jain, Sudatta Ray, Karthik Ganesan, Michaël Aklin, and Johannes Urpelainen). September 2015.
• “Poverty Alleviation and Development in Xinjiang.” Chinese Law & Government 44(6):3-9. December 2011.

Datasets

• Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity: Survey of States in India (ACCESS).
• Chinese Political Elite Network (C-PEN).