Book:
Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest. 2021. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Peer Reviewed Articles:
"Rhetoric and Reform: Authoritarian Policing in China," Journal of Chinese Political Science (forthcoming). Supplemental Materials.
"Rethinking Authoritarian Resilience and the Coercive Apparatus," Comparative Politics, 53:2 *(2021): 309-330.
"Propaganda and the Police: The Softer Side of State Control in China," Europe-Asia Studies, 73:1, 200-220.
"Policing Modern China," The China Law and Society Review, 3:2 (2018): 79-117.
"China's Unhappy Police," with Kevin O'Brien. Asian Survey, 56: 2 (2016): 225-42.
Featured in the Economist
"Understanding China's Rising Rights Consciousness," with Peter Lorentzen. China Quarterly, 223 (2015): 638-57.
"Navigating Fieldwork as an Outsider: Observations from Interviewing Police Officers in China," PS: Political Science & Politics, 47: 2 (April 2014): 394-7.
Reprinted in 2016, "Navigating the Profession: Sage Advice from the Pages of PS" PS: Political Science & Politics, 49: S1 (February)
Reprinted in 2018, Navigating Political Science: Professional Advancement and Success in the Discipline, Kent Worcester, Ed. (Washington, DC: American Political Science Association).
Book Chapters:
"Politics, Law, and Policing in Reform Era China," in Chinese Legality: Ideology, Law, and Institutions, edited by Hua Shiping. Forthcoming, Routledge.
Second Book Manuscript:
Constructing State Legitimacy in China
Working Papers:
"Constructing State Legitimacy: Social Media, Douyin, and the Police"
"Everyday Violence in China"
"Trust in Police? How People use Legal Advice Websites to Challenge Police in China" (with John Givens)