- Ideas, Politics, and Urban Development in China (2019)
- Chinese Cities: Liberalization, Development, and Social Dislocation (2019)
- Justice (2019)
- Chinese Law and Governance: Moving beyond Responsive Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law (2016)
- China's Phantom Urbanization and the Pathology of Ghost Cities (2016)
- Compliance, Resistance, Innovation, and Involution: Assessing the Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion (2015)
- Grasping the Large and Releasing the Small: a Bottom-Up Perspective on Reform in a County-Level Enterprise (2015)
- The Politics and Patterns of Policy Diffusion in China (2015)
- The Judicial Cadre Evaluation System in China: From Quantification to Intra-State Legibility (2015)
- Reassessing Collective Petitioning in Rural China: Civic Engagement, Extra-State Violence, and Regional Variation (2014)
- Indonesia's Courts of Industrial Relations: Context, Structure, and a Look at Surabaya Cases (2014)
- Nascent Protections in Emerging Giants: Struggles to Judicialize Labor Rights in China and Indonesia (2014)
- Implementing China's Labor Law Reforms: Interests and Obligations at the Firm-Level (2012)
- Slowdown in the World's Workshop? Chinese Labor in the Great Recession (2012)
- Politics, Society, and the Legal System in Contemporary China (2011)
- Recession and the Politics of Class and Production in China (2011)
- Rebuilding the Urban Chinese Welfare State: Authoritarian Accommodation and Multi-level Governance (2011)
- Access to Justice in Post-Mao China: Assessing the Politics of Criminal and Administrative Law (2011)
- Cases, Questions, and Comparison in Research on Contemporary Chinese Politics (2010)
- Urban China: Change and Contention (2010)
- Workers in Post-Socialist China: Shattered Rice Bowls, Fragmented Subjectivities (2010)
- A 'China Model' or Just a Broken Mould? (2009)
- The Power of the Past: Nostalgia and Popular Discontent in Contemporary China (2009)
- Mass Frames and Worker Protest (2008)
- The City as the Focus: the Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Urban Politics (2006)
- Understanding Contentious Collective Action by Chinese Laid-off Workers: the Importance of Regional Political Economy (2004)
- Analysis in Limbo: Contemporary Chinese Politics Amid the Maturation of Reform (2003)
- China's Contentious Pensioners (2002)