Research
Research
2024. "Tunnels of Power: The Cultural Politics of the Beijing Subway," Modern Asian Studies 58(3): 840-864. (with Cheng Li). DOI PDF
2024. "All the President's Women? Female Leaders, Family Ties, and Gendered Cabinet Appointments Worldwide," Politics & Gender 20(3): 669-700. (with Zezhong Wang). DOI PDF
2024. "Organizational Appeals and Civic Voluntarism: Survey Experimental Evidence of the Neo-Tocquevillian Thesis from Pandemic-Era China," Asian Survey 64 (3): 365-395. (with Yiqiu Zhang). DOI PDF
2022. "Does female ratio balancing influence the efficacy of peacekeeping units? exploring the impact of female peacekeepers on post-conflict outcomes and behavior," International Interactions 48(2): 173-203. (with Neil Narang) DOI PDF
Awarded the 2018 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics
2021. "Perceptual Divided Leviathan and the Modes of Political Participation in China," The China Review 21(3): 123-155. JSTOR / MUSE PDF
2020. “Selling Forestry Revolution: The Rhetoric of Afforestation in Socialist China, 1949-61,” Environmental History 25(1): 62-84. (with Cheng Li) DOI PDF
2017. "Review: Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability,” Journal of Chinese Political Science 22(3): 489-490.
2017. “Reading Climate Change in the Anthropocene,” Green Letters 21(2): 138-151. (with Cheng Li) DOI
2014. “Red China, Green Amnesia: Locating Environmental Justice in Contemporary Chinese Literature,” in Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran eds., Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism (Washington, DC: Lexington, 33-58) (with Cheng Li)
2013. “Ramakrishnan Venkatraman,” in Xiaojian Zhao and Edward J. W. Park eds., Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic and Political History (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 949-951)
"Why Leaders Repress" (APSA 2025, with Zezhong Wang)
"The Pathology of Meritocracy" (APSA 2025, with Changying Huang)
"Polarization by Emotion" (APSA 2025, with Changying Huang)
“Bloodlines and Battle Lines” (MPSA 2025 & APSA 2025, with Zezhong Wang)
"The Revolutionary Origins of Women's Political Empowerment" (with Weilin Xiao)
“National Narratives and Citizens’ Worldviews: A Survey Experiment in China” (MPSA 2025 & APSA 2025, with Yiwen Zhang and Cheng Tan)
“Legislative Peace” (MPSA 2025, with Xingyu Zhou)
"Measuring and Activating Populism in China" (MPSA 2025, with Xingyu Zhou and Chaofan Ren)
“Breaking the Chain: Can Inclusive Welfare States Mitigate the Leap from Economic to Political Inequality? —A Global Analysis, 1960-2023” (MPSA 2025, with Yiwen Zhang)
"Party Rules: Unpacking the Mass Psychology of the Chinese Party-State" (APSA 2024, with Xingyu Zhou)
"Moral Mandates: Unveiling the Moralized Politics and Its Consequences in China" (APSA 2024, with Jiayi Zhang & Shuo Wang)
"Domestic Threats, Family Ties, and State Responses to Mass Protests" (APSA 2024, with Zezhong Wang)
"Interjurisdiction Competition and the Political Welfare Cycle in China" (APSA 2024, with Chaofan Ren)
"Becoming Urban: The Political Consequences of Urban Citizenship in China" (SPSA 2024 & APSA 2024, with Liwei Zhou)
"Feminist Patriots: An Empirical Inquiry of Pink Feminism in China" (APSA 2024, with Jia Yao)
"The Velvet Glove on the Iron Fist: An Experimental Study of Soft Propaganda of Coercive Agencies" (MPSA 2024, with Jia Han)
"Unpacking the Psychology of Political Consumerism in China: A Survey Experiment" (SPSA 2024, with Xingyang Gao, Yuan Zhou, & Xingming Wang)
"Age Representation in Authoritarian Legislatures and Its Consequences (APSA 2023, with Zezhong Wang)
"Hereditary Rule and Regime Responses to Mass Protests" (APSA 2023, with Zezhong Wang)
"Interjurisdiction Political Competition and Social Spending in China" (APSA 2023, with Liwei Zhou)
"Participation after Taxation: A Quasi-Natural Experiment in China" (with Liwei Zhou)
"Voting for Congressmen Candidates in China: A Conjoint Experiment among First-Time Voter College Students" (with Rong Tan)
"What Does Social Welfare Buy? A Regression-Discontinuity Design in China" (APSA 2022, with Liwei Zhou)
"Affective Voluntarism in Combating COVID-19" (SPSA 2022, with Yiqiu Zhang)
"Precarious Insiders: State Dependency, Social Comparison, and Political Trust in China" (MPSA 2022, with Jie Ma)
"When Do Parties Embrace Populism? A Global Multilevel Analysis" (with Xinyang Gao & Zhihao Liao)
"Trajectories of American Anti-Intellectualism: Partisans, Election Cycles, and Generations" (with Zhaoqing Li)
"Elite Origins of Popular Contention in China" (APSA2021, with Jie Ma)
"Administrative Devolution and Electoral Turnout: A Differences-in-Differences Analysis in China" (MPSA 2021, with Liwei Zhou)
"Affective Conspiracy Beliefs: The Psychological Correlates of American Beliefs toward COVID-19 as Lab-Developed" (SPSA 2021, with Jie Ma)
"Social Network Structures, Space, and Grassroots Anti-COVID-19 Mobilization in Urban China" (with Liwei Zhou)
"Being Non-Prototypical: How Do Minority Republican Candidates Impact Democratic Partisan Loyalty" (with Chaoyue Wang)
"When Does Chinese Online Public Opinion Make Policy?" (with Chengcheng Wang)
"Modernization and Social Trust in Reformed China: A Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort Analysis" (with Zhaoqing Li)
"Scientific Literacy and Civic Engagement in China during the COVID-19" (with Zhihao Liao)
"Gendering Political Responsiveness under Pandemic Threat: A Survey Experiment in China"
"Motherland Online: How Social Media Affects Citizens’ Nationalistic Inclinations" (APSA 2020, with Jun Wang)
"Natural Disasters, Nationalism, and Political Support: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from China" (APSA 2018, SPSA2019)
"Leaders' Abroad Education and Foreign Policy: Examing the UNGA Voting of African Countries” (with Fenglin Guo)
"The Nationalist Legacy of the Revolutionary Past in Contemporary China " (ISA 2017, SPSA 2020)
"Gendering Military Intervention" (ISA 2017, APSA2020)
"Scandals, Media, and Public Opinion in China: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach" (APSA 2016, MPSA 2017)
"The Mass Political Consequences of Unfunded Central Mandates in China: Quasi-Experimental Evidence" (MPSA 2016)
"Minority Rights Attitudes and Pre-Migration Political Socialization in East Asia" (APSA 2015, with Pei-te Lien)
"Who Trusts?: The Democratic Utility of Social Trust Reversed in Contemporary China" (MPSA 2015)
"The Rise of the Sent-Down Generation in CCP Leadership and Its Policy Impacts: A Preliminary Assessment" (ACPS 2014)
Publications in Chinese (select)
2025. "国家治理的心理世界The Psychological World of State Governance," 中国社会科学报 Chinese Social Sciences Today, 4月15日 April 15.
2025. "特朗普回归与美国孤立主义的再兴 Trump's Return and the Resurgence of American Isonationism," 国外理论动态 Foreign Theoretical Trends, (1): 109-118. (CSSCI, with Jiaxin Dong)
2025. "2024年理论学术观点要览(上): 政治学篇 Annual Review of Theoretical & Academic Perspectives in China (Part I): Political Science,"《北京日报》理论周刊·特刊 Beijing Daily (Theoretical Weekly, Special Issue), 1月6日第10版 January 6, p. 10. (with Fenglin Guo)
2024. "国家认同、政治参与和当代美国政治消费主义：基于ANES数据的实证分析National Identity, Political Participation, and Political Consumerism in the United States: An Empirical Study Based on ANES Data," 美国问题研究 Fudan American Review, 38: 164-186. (CSSCI, with Jiaxin Dong)
2024. "人工智能赋能国家治理现代化：AI治理的潜力、限度与未来 Artificial Intelligence Empowers the Modernization of State Governance: The Potential, Limitations, and Future of AI-Based Governance," 中国社会科学报 Chinese Social Sciences Today, 8月8日 August 8.
2024 "第六章 实验与准实验研究 Chapter 6 Experiments and Quasi-Experiments," In 政治学与公共管理研究方法: 常用具体方法 Research Methods of Political Science and Public Management Vol. 3 (Beijing: Peking University Press, 177-222)
2024. "竞逐安全：后冲突社会安全供给与公众信任 Competing for Security: The Market of Security Provision and Public Trust in State Security Sectors in Post-Conflict Societies," 国际政治科学 Quarterly Journal of International Politics, 9(2): 80-115. (CSSCI, with Liwei Zhou & Chaochen Wang)
2024. "阴谋论信念的政治心理学：基于文献的讨论The Political Psychology of Conspiracy Belief: A Synthesis,"北大政治学评论 Peking University Political Science Review, 16: 96-126. (CSSCI, with He Wang).
2024. "第五章 安全篇 Chapter 5 National Security," (with Zhaoqing Li) In 国家治理评估研究：理论、方法、经验与指标体系构建 Evaluating State Governance: Theories, Methods, Experiences, and Index Construction (Shanghai: The Commercial Press, 225-273)
2023. "基层政府治理创新的发生路径——基于111个案例的定性比较分析 The Paths of Grassroots Governance Innovation in China: A Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 111 Cases," 学习与探索 Study and Exploration, (12): 48-55. (CSSCI, with Chenning Song and Liwei Zhou).
2023.“超越'黑与白': 美国少数族裔间的政治合作与冲突 Beyond 'Black and White': Inter-Minority Politics in the United States,” 美国研究 Chinese Journal of American Studies 37(5): 28-59. (CSSCI, with Zongjian Li)
2023. "城市化背景下村社自主性的形成——历史制度主义视角下的比较案例研究 Land-Taking Urbanization and Community Autonomy in China: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Two Village Teams," 中国行政管理 Chinese Public Administration, (7): 49-57. (CSSCI, with Hua Sun & Liwei Zhou)
2023. "第十七章 因果效应识别: 实验法 Chapter 17 Causal Inference: Experiment Designs," In 发展政治学学科地图 Politics of Development: A Disciplinary Roadmap (Beijing: Peking University Press, 360-400)
2022. “重访和超越迪韦尔热：选举制度、社会裂隙与政党数量 Revisiting and Going Beyond Duverger’s Law: Electoral Rules, Social Cleavages, and the Number of Parties,” 学海 Academia Bimestrie, (6): 62-71. (CSSCI, with Jinjin Wang)
2022. “政治学视野下的西方社会运动研究：脉络与前沿 Social Movement Studies in Political Science: Evolution and Frontiers,” 国外社会科学 Social Sciences Abroad, (3): 124-140. (CSSCI, with Fenglin Guo)
2022. “人们如何挑选政治信息？——政治传播学视角下的选择性接触理论 How Do People Select Political Information: Selective Exposure Theory in the Perspective of Political Communication,” 北大政治学评论 Peking University Political Science Review, 12: 228-253. (with Zhihao Liao)
2022. “美国政治中的反智主义: 表现、成因与后果 Anti-Intellectualism in American Politics: Manifestation, Causes, and Outcomes,” 美国研究 Chinese Journal of American Studies 36(1): 40-71. (CSSCI, with Liwei Zhou)
2021. “族群联邦制与族群冲突管理: 议题转变与理论发展 Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Conflict Management: An Evolving Agenda,” 国际政治研究 Journal of International Studies 42(6): 56-82. (CSSCI, with Changxin Xing)
2020. “医保供给与政治信任：供给水平与期望增长的速度竞赛 Health Insurance and Political Trust in China: A Race between the Supply and the Growing Expectations,” 社会发展研究 Journal of Social Development 7(2): 178-195. (CSSCI, with Fenglin Guo)
2020. “科学素质：社会治理的微观基础 Scientific Literacy as the Micro Base of Social Governance,” 科普研究 Studies on Science Popularization 15(4): 40-46. (with Juanjuan Li and Wei He).
2012. “香港回归后的民主化话语：问题导向与认同重塑 Democratization Discourses in Post-Handover Hong Kong: Problem-Solving Orientation and Identity Reconstruction,”当代港澳研究 Studies on Hong Kong and Macau (3): 106-112. ( with Ngai Lung Yeung and Cunyi Yin)
2012. “后危机时代的美国霸权与中美的亚太博弈 The U.S. Hegemony in the Post-Crisis Era and Sino-U.S. Rivalry in the East Asia-Pacific Region,” 和平与发展 Peace and Development (3): 13-20. (CSSCI, with Qingxin K. Wang and Yanbing Zhang)