English Articles:
6. Lei, Zhenhuan, and Yishuang Li. 2024. "Making Local Courts Work: The Judicial Recentralization Reform and Local Protectionism in China." Accepted for publication in the Journal of Politics.
[published version | unpublished version]
5. Lei, Zhenhuan. 2024. “The Fiscal Logic of Political Responsiveness: Public Finance, Elections, and Public Goods Provision in Rural China.” Studies in Comparative International Development， 59: 1-26.
[published version | unpublished version]
4. Lei, Zhenhuan. 2023. “The Political Resource Blessing or Curse? Patronage Networks, Infrastructure Investment, and Economic Development in China.” Comparative Political Studies, 56(8): 1156–1188.
[published version | unpublished version]
3. Li, Yishuang, and Zhenhuan Lei. 2023. “Political Alignment and the Allocation of Stock Market Resources in China.” Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 4(1): 51–80.
[published version | unpublished version]
2. Lei, Zhenhuan, and Junlong Aaron Zhou. 2022. “Private Returns to Public Investment: Political Career Incentives and Infrastructure Investment in China.” The Journal of Politics, 84(1): 455-469.
[published version | unpublished version]
1. Lei, Zhenhuan, and Jeff Nugent. 2018. “Coordinating China’s Economic Growth Strategy via Its Government-Controlled Association for Private Firms.” (2018) Journal of Comparative Economics, 46: 1273-1293.
[published version | unpublished version]
Chinese Article （中文论文）:
1. 席天扬、雷镇环、刘诗尧、李怡爽、刘珍岑、赵家琪（2024）“国家治理指数和发展中国家现代化——基于历史沿革、理论逻辑和构建方法的考察，”《国家现代化建设研究》，2024年第1期。
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Working Paper(s):
"From Power to Policy: The Legislative Influence of Retiring Politicians in China's National People's Congress Standing Committee," with Chuan Liu (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Anchu Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University).
"Matriarch for the Patriarch: Female Regency and Political Stability in Historical China," with Yuxin Chen (Renmin University of China) and Xiuyu Li (New York University).
"Turning the Blade Inward: Deregulation to Discipline the Bureaucracy," with Lizhi Liu (Georgetown).
"Making Decentralization Work: The Party-State System and China’s Economic Reforms and Development."