Xin Sun. "Politicised Enforcement in China: Evidence from the Enforcement of Land Laws and Regulations," forthcoming at the Journal of Public Policy (2020)
Xin Sun. "Campaign-style Implementation and Affordable Housing Provision in China", forthcoming at China Journal (July 2020)
Xin Sun. 2019. “Patronage Politics, Power Sharing, and Land Institutions in China”, Problems of Post-Communism, 66(5),315-328, available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10758216.2018.1489205.
Meina Cai and Xin Sun. 2018. “Institutional Bindingness, Power Structure, and Land Expropriation in China”, World Development, 109, 172-186.
Xin Sun. "Selective Enforcement of Land Regulations: Why Large-scale Violators Succeeded", China Journal, 74, July 2015 [pdf]
Xin Sun, Jiangnan Zhu and Yiping Wu, "Organizational Clientelism: An Analysis of Private Entrepreneur Delegates in Chinese Local Legislatures", Journal of East Asian Studies,14(1), January 2014 [pdf]
Xin Sun. "Autocrats' Dilemma: The Dual Impacts of Village Elections on Public Opinion in China, China Journal, 71, January 2014 [pdf]
Xin Sun, Travis Warner, Dali Yang and Mingxing Liu. "Patterns of Authority and Governance in Rural China: Who's in Charge? Why?", Journal of Contemporary China, 22(2), September 2013 [pdf]
Fubing Su, Ran Tao, Xin Sun and Mingxing Liu. "Electoral Procedures, Mobilization, and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Villagers' Committee Elections in Transitional China", Political Studies, 59(2), June 2011 [pdf]
Ran Tao, Fubing Su, Xin Sun and Xi Lu. "Political Trust as Rational Belief: Evidence from Chinese Village Elections", Journal of Comparative Economics, 39(1), March 2011 [pdf]
Xin Sun and Yifan Cheng. "Land Institution Reform Under Xi: Policy Changes and Implications,"in Kerry Brown ed. China’s 19th Party Congress Start of a New Era. World Scientific Press, 2018.
Book Review of Unmaking China’s Development: The Function and Credibility of Institutions, by Peter Ho. China Quarterly (Oct, 2019)
Book Review of Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism, by Meg E. Rithmire. China Quarterly (Oct, 2016)
"A Mid-Term Assessment of Economic Reform in Xi’s China" Trinity Economic Forum Magazine (Feb 5, 2016)