Research Articles

Peer Reviewed 

Leng, N., & Zuo, C. (2022). Tournament style bargaining within boundaries: Setting targets in China’s Cadre Evaluation System. Journal of Contemporary China, 31(133), 116-135.

Non Peer-Reviewed

Leng, N. (2024), Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China by Martin K. Dimitrov, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, xix + 470 pp.. The Developing Economies. https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12390

Under Review

“Unpacking Source Country Effects: Views of Chinese Investment in the Global South” (with David Bulman and Kerry Ratigan) (revise and resubmit, Journal of Politics)

“Disappearing Research: Academic Censorship in China” (with Elizabeth Plantan) (under review)

“Firms as Ill-Fated Political Contributors in an Authoritarian Context: De-privatization of Buses in China” (under review)

“When to Embezzle? Patterns of Corruption Among China’s Municipal Officials” (under review)

Work in Progress

"Central Bank Independence in Autocracies" (with Michael Aklin, Andreas Kern, and Jack Seddon)

 “Do public perceptions of China impact voting in the Global South?” (with David Bulman and Kerry Ratigan)

“Isn’t It Ironic: How Perceptions of Democratic Backsliding Shape Preferences for Cooperation with China” (with David Bulman and Kerry Ratigan)