Faculty and Fellows' Publications

Prof. Andrew Mertha

Books

Forthcoming May 2025
2008
2014
2005
2018
2024

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 [URL: BRI Under Xi Jinping]
  • “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 [URL: A Half Century of Engagement]
  • “Rectification” in Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere, and Christian Sorace, eds., Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi, Verso Books, 2019 [URL: Rectification
  • “Navigating the Bureaucracy: A Foundational Primer on Policy Making in China,” in The Sage Handbook of Contemporary China (chapter 17), Sage Publications, 2018 [URL: Navigating the Bureaucracy]
  • “‘Stressing Out’: Cadre Calibration and Affective Proximity to the CCP in
    Reform-Era China,” The China Quarterly 229 (March 2017): 64-85 [URL: Stressing Out]
  • “‘International Disorganization’: Fragmentation and Foreign Policy in Sino-Cambodian Relations, 1975-1979,” Issues & Studies 51 (1) 2015: 129-163 [URL: International Disorganization 2015]
  • “Surrealpolitik: The Experience of Chinese Experts in Democratic Kampuchea, 1975-1979,” Cross-Currents 4 (September 2012) [URL: Surrealpolitik]
  • “‘Fragmented Authoritarianism 2.0’: Political Pluralization of the Chinese Policy Process,” The China Quarterly 200 (December 2009): 1-18 [URL: Fragmented Authoritarianism 2.0]   Chosen as one of the eight most influential articles over the past 60 years at The China Quarterlyhttps://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 [URL: From Rustless Screws to Nail Houses]
  • “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 [URL: Putting Your Mouth Where Your Money Is]
  • “Unbuilt Dams: Seminal Events and Policy Change” (with William Lowry), Comparative Politics 39 (1) October 2006: 1-20 [URL: Unbuilt Dams]
  • “‘Policy Enforcement Markets’: How Bureaucratic Redundancy Contributes to Effective IPR Policy Implementation in China,” Comparative Politics 38 (3) April 2006: 295-316 [URL: Policy Enforcement Markets]
  • “China’s ‘Soft’ Centralization: Shifting Tiao/Kuai Authority Relations Since 1998,” The China Quarterly 184 (December 2005): 792-810 [URL: Soft Centralization Final]
  • “‘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 [URL: Patently Misleading]
  • “Political Institutions, Local Resistance, and China’s Harmonization with In ternational Law” (with Ka Zeng), The China Quarterly 182 (June 2005): 319- 337 [URL: political-institutions-resistance-and-chinas-harmonization-with-international-law]

Prof. Ling Chen

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

Prof. David Bulman

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

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

Prof. Emeritus David M. Lampton

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2020
2014
2001
2002
2008

Prof. Carla Freeman

Prof. Emerita Anne Thurston