Faculty and Fellows’ Publications

SAIS China Research Center Director
Prof. Andrew Mertha

Books

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

“China’s Domestic Politics Beyond Water’s Edge: BRI and China’s Fragmented Foreign Policy,” in Stanley Rosen and Daniel Lynch, eds., Chinese Politics: The Xi Jinping Difference, 2nd. Edition, London: Routledge, 2024
“A Half-Century of Engagement: The Study of China and the Role of the China Scholar Community,” in Anne Thurston, ed., Engaging China: Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2021
“Rectification” in Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere, and Christian Sorace, eds., Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi, Verso Books, 2019
“Navigating the Bureaucracy: A Foundational Primer on Policy Making in China,” in The Sage Handbook of Contemporary China (chapter 17), Sage Publications, 2018
“‘Stressing Out’: Cadre Calibration and Affective Proximity to the CCP in
Reform-Era China,” The China Quarterly 229 (March 2017): 64-85
“‘International Disorganization’: Fragmentation and Foreign Policy in Sino-Cambodian Relations, 1975-1979,” Issues & Studies 51 (1) 2015: 129-163
“Surrealpolitik: The Experience of Chinese Experts in Democratic Kampuchea, 1975-1979,” Cross-Currents 4 (September 2012)
“‘Fragmented Authoritarianism 2.0’: Political Pluralization of the Chinese Policy Process,” The China Quarterly 200 (December 2009): 1-18; Chosen as one of the eight most influential articles over the past 60 years at The China Quarterly: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/virtual-special-issue-the-china-quarterly-at-60-a-special-anniversary-issue
“From ‘Rustless Screws’ to ‘Nail Houses’: The Evolution of Property Rights in China,” Orbis 53 (2) Spring 2009: 233-249
“Putting Your Mouth Where Your Money Is: How US Companies’ Fear of Chinese Retaliation Influences US Trade Policy,” in Ka Zeng, ed., China’s Foreign Trade Policy: The New Constituencies, London: Routledge, 2007
“Unbuilt Dams: Seminal Events and Policy Change” (with William Lowry), Comparative Politics 39 (1) October 2006: 1-20
“‘Policy Enforcement Markets’: How Bureaucratic Redundancy Contributes to Effective IPR Policy Implementation in China,” Comparative Politics 38 (3) April 2006: 295-316
“China’s ‘Soft’ Centralization: Shifting Tiao/Kuai Authority Relations Since 1998,” The China Quarterly 184 (December 2005): 792-810
“‘Patently Misleading’: Partial Implementation and Bargaining Leverage in Sino-American Negotiations on Intellectual Property Rights” (with Robert Pahre), International Organization 59 (3) Summer 2005: 695-730
“Political Institutions, Local Resistance, and China’s Harmonization with In ternational Law” (with Ka Zeng), The China Quarterly 182 (June 2005): 319- 337

China Focus Area Co-Lead
Prof. Ho-fung Hung

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Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

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China Focus Area Co-Lead
Prof. Ling Chen

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Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

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Chen, Ling. 2024. “Institutional Rebound: Why Reforming China’s State-Owned Enterprises Is So Difficult,” Comparative Politics 56(2): 173-195

Chen, Ling and Miles Evers. 2023. “Wars without Gun Smoke: Global Supply Chains, Power Politics, and Economic Statecraft,” International Security 48 (2):164-204

Chen, Ling. 2022. “Getting China’s Political Economy Right: State, Business and Authoritarian Capitalism,” Perspectives on Politics 20(4): 1397-1402

Chen, Ling and Florian Hollenbach. 2022. “Capital Mobility and Taxation: State-Business Collusion in China,” International Studies Quarterly 66(1); Winner, 2022 American Political Science Association (APSA) Best Comparative Policy Award

Chen, Ling and Hao Zhang, “Strategic Authoritarianism: The Political Cycles and Selectivity of China’s Tax Break Policy,” American Journal of Political Science 65(4) 2021: 845-861

Chen, Ling, “Grounded Globalization: Foreign Capital and Local Bureaucrats in China’s Economic Transformation.” World Development 98 (2017): 381-399

Chen, Ling, “Varieties of Global Capital and the Paradox of Local Upgrading in China.” Politics & Society 42(2) 2014: 223-252

Chen, Ling, “Playing The Market Reform Card: The Changing Patterns Of Political Struggle In Chinas Electric Power Sector,” The China Journal 64 (2010): 69-95
Chen, Ling, “Institutional Inertia, Adjustment, and Change: Japan as a Case of a Coordinated Market Economy,” Review of International Political Economy 15(3) 2008: 460-479
Chen, Ling, “Preferences, Institutions and Politics: Re-Interrogating the Theoretical Lessons of Developmental Economies.” New Political Economy 13(1) 2008: 89-102

Prof. Jessica Chen Weiss

Books

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

Jessica Chen Weiss, Panle Jia Barwick, Shanjun Li, and Jeremy L. Wallace. 2023, “International Relations and Commerce: Evidence from Boycott and Consumer Spending in China.” Journal of East Asian Studies.
Allan Dafoe, Samuel Liu, Brian O’Keefe, and Jessica Chen Weiss, “Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China,” International Studies Quarterly, 2022.
Jessica Chen Weiss and Jeremy L. Wallace, “Domestic Politics, China’s Rise, and Challenges to the Liberal International Order.” International Organization 75(2) 2021: pp. 635-664.
Shiqi Ma and Jessica Chen Weiss, “Strong State or Vulnerable Homeland: How Chinese State Media Sought to Combat Democratic Diffusion During the 2019 Hong Kong Protests,” Journal of Contemporary China, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2022.2052442
Amber Wichowsky and Jessica Chen Weiss, “Getting Tough on China: Are Campaign Ads A Signal of Future Policy or Just Cheap Talk?”
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12307
Jessica Chen Weiss and Allan Dafoe, “Authoritarian Audiences, Rhetoric, and Propaganda in International Crises: Evidence from China,”
International Studies Quarterly, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqz059
Jeremy Wallace and Jessica Chen Weiss. “The Political Geography of Nationalist Protest in China: Cities and the 2012 Anti-Japanese Demonstrations,”
China Quarterly 222 (June 2015): 403-29.
Jessica Chen Weiss. “Authoritarian Signaling, Mass Audiences, and Nationalist Protest in China.” International Organization 2013 67:1.

Prof. Jeremy Lee Wallace

Books

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

Jeremy L. Wallace, “China’s Carbon Triangle: Climate Change and the Unwinding of the Land-Finance-Real Estate Development Model,” in Analyzing China’s Domestic and Foreign Policies, Wilson Center, 2024.
Bryn Rosenfeld and Jeremy L. Wallace, “Information Politics and Propaganda in Authoritarian Societies.” Annual Review of Political Science, 2024.
Jessica Chen Weiss, Panle Jia Barwick, Shanjun Li, and Jeremy L. Wallace, “International Relations and Commerce: Evidence from Boycott and Consumer Spending in China.” Journal of East Asian Studies, 2023.
Chuxuan Liu and Jeremy L. Wallace, “What’s Not Trending on Weibo: China’s Missing Climate Change Discourse,” Environmental Research Communications. 5(1) 011002, 2023.
Michael A. Neblo and Jeremy L. Wallace, “A Plague on Politics? The COVID Crisis, Expertise, and the Future of Legitimation.” American Political Science Review 115(4) 2021: 1524-1529.
Jessica Chen Weiss and Jeremy L. Wallace, “Domestic Politics, China’s Rise, and Challenges to the Liberal International Order.” International Organization. 75(2) 2021: 635-664.
Jiwon Baik and Jeremy L. Wallace, “Slums amidst Ghost Cities: Incentive and Information Problems in China’s Urbanization.” Problems of Post-Communism, 2021.

Prof. Yuen Yuen Ang

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

Prof. David Bulman

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

“Instinctive Commercial Peace Theorists? Interpreting American Views of the US–China Trade War,” Business and Politics 24(4) (2022): 430-462
“Picking Losers: How Career Incentives Undermine Industrial Policy in Chinese Cities” (with Xun Yan and Qiong Zhang), Journal of Development Studies 58(6) (2022): 1102-1123
“Financial Sustainability of the Belt and Road Initiative Before and After Covid-19,” in David Arase and Pedro Miguel Carvalho (eds.), The Belt and Road Initiative in Asia, Africa, and Europe (Routledge, 2022)
“Localism in Retreat? Central-Provincial Relations in the Xi Jinping Era” (with Kyle Jaros), Journal of Contemporary China 30(131) (2021): 697-716
“The Economic Security Dilemma in US-China Relations,” Asian Perspective 45(1) (2021): 49-73
“Loyalists, Localists, and Legibility: The Calibrated Control of Provincial Leadership Teams in China” (with Kyle Jaros), Politics & Society 48(2) (2020): 199-234
“Leninism and Local Interests: How Cities in China Benefit from Concurrent Leadership Appointments” (with Kyle Jaros), Studies in Comparative International Development 54 (2019): 233-273
“Transitioning from Low-Income Growth to High-Income Growth: Is there a Middle Income Trap?” (with Ha Nguyen and Maya Eden), Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 22(1) (2017): 5-28
“Good Countries or Good Projects? Comparing Macro and Micro Correlates of World Bank and Asian Development Bank Project Performance” (with Walter Kolkma and Aart Kraay), Review of International Organizations 12(3) (2017): 335-363

Prof. Jonas Nahm

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

Michael R. Davidson, Valerie J. Karplus, Joanna I. Lewis, Jonas Nahm, Alex Wang, 2022. “Risks of decoupling from China on low-carbon technologies.” Science 377 (6611): 1266-1269
Jonas Nahm, 2022. “Green Growth Models.” In Lucio Baccaro, Mark Blyth, and Jonas Pontusson. Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation. New York: Oxford University Press
Jonas Nahm, Scot Miller, and Johannes Urpelainen. 2022. “G20’s US$14-trillion economic stimulus reneges on emissions pledges.” Nature 603, 28-32
Jonas Nahm and Johannes Urpelainen. 2021. “The Enemy Within? Green Industrial Policy and Stranded Assets in China’s Power Sector.” Global Environmental Politics 21 (4), 88-109
Jonas Meckling and Jonas Nahm. 2021. “Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy.” Comparative Political Studies. Winner, 2021 American Political Science Association Award for the best paper in public policy.
John Helveston and Jonas Nahm. 2019. “China’s key role in scaling low-carbon energy technologies.” Science 366 (6467): 794-796
Jonas Nahm. 2019. “The Energy Politics of China.” In Kathleen Hancock and Juliann Allison (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Jonas Meckling and Jonas Nahm. 2019. “The Politics of Technology Bans: Industrial Policy Competition and Green Goals for the Global Auto Industry”: Energy Policy 126: 470-479
Jonas Meckling and Jonas Nahm. 2018. “When do States Disrupt Industries? Electric Cars and the Politics of Innovation.” Review of International Political Economy 25(4): 505-529.
Jonas Meckling and Jonas Nahm. 2018. “The Power of Process: State Capacity and Climate Policy.” Governance 31(4): 741-757 (winner, 2018 American Political Science Association Evan J. Ringquist Award for the best paper published in a relevant journal in the last two years)
Jonas Nahm. 2017. “Renewable Futures and Industrial Legacies: Wind and Solar Sectors in China, Germany, and the United States.” Business and Politics 19(1): 68-106
Jonas Nahm. 2017. “Exploiting the Implementation Gap: Policy Divergence and Industrial Upgrading in China’s Wind and Solar Sectors.” The China Quarterly 231: 705-727 (winner, 2017 Gordon White Prize for the most original article published in The China Quarterly)
Genia Kostka and Jonas Nahm. 2017. “Central–Local Relations: Recentralization and Environmental Governance in China.” The China Quarterly 231: 567-582
Jonas Nahm and Edward S. Steinfeld. 2014. “Scale-Up Nation: China’s Specialization in Innovative Manufacturing.” World Development 54: 288-300

Prof. David Steinberg

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

David A. Steinberg and Yeling Tan. 2023. “Public Responses to Foreign Protectionism: Evidence from the US-China Trade War.” Review of International Organizations 18 (1): 145-167
David A. Steinberg, Daniel McDowell, and Dimitar Gueorguiev. 2021. “Inside Looking Out: How International Policy Trends Shape the Politics of Capital Controls in China.” The Pacific Review 34 (6): 995-1021
Dimitar Gueorguiev, Daniel McDowell, and David A. Steinberg. 2020. “The Impact of Economic Coercion on Public Opinion: The Case of US-China Currency Relations.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 64 (9): 1555-1583
Daniel McDowell and David A. Steinberg. 2017. “Systemic Strengths, Domestic Deficiencies: The Renminbi’s Future as a Reserve Currency.” Journal of Contemporary China 26 (108): 801-819
David A. Steinberg, Karrie Koesel, and Nicolas Thompson. 2015. “Political Regimes and Currency Crises.” Economics and Politics 27 (3): 337-361
David A. Steinberg and Victor C. Shih. 2012. “Interest Group Influence in Authoritarian States: The Political Determinants of Chinese Exchange Rate Policy.” Comparative Political Studies 45 (11): 1404-1433