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2017. “Seeing Ghosts: Parsing China’s “Ghost City” Controversy.” Urban Geography. (with Max Woodworth).
2016. “Juking the Stats? Authoritarian Information Problems in China.” British Journal of Political Science. 46(1): 11–29. Media mentions: Marginal Revolution, 16 May 2014; Washington Post Monkey Cage, 30 April 2014.
2015. “The Political Geography of Nationalist Protest in China: Cities and the 2012 Anti-Japanese Demonstrations.” China Quarterly. Vol. 222, 403–429. (with Jessica Chen Weiss)
2015. “Information Politics in Dictatorships.” in Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. (eds.) Robert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn. John Wiley and Sons.
2014. “Central vs. Local States: Which Matters More for China’s Urban Growth?” Land Use Policy Vol. 38, (May 2014): 487–496. (with Qian Zhang, Karen Seto, & Xiangzheng Deng)
2013. “Cities, Redistribution, and Authoritarian Regime Survival.” The Journal of Politics. Vol. 75, no. 3. (Jul 2013): 632–645. Media mentions: Foreign Policy. 15 July 2013; Wall Street Journal.
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