work in progress

• Research Article: Precarious Work Relations and Social Unrest in China: Insights from 40.000 protest accounts [in German] (English translation in preparation)
• Research Article: Accountable Autocrats? E-Government, Empowerment and Control in China
• Research Article: A Single Flower Does Not Make a Spring: How Regime Responsiveness in China Facilitates Protests, but not Revolts (first version completed)
• Research Article: Co-producing output legitimacy: Participatory authoritarianism in China (first version completed)

2018

• Social Unrest in China: a bird’s eye perspective, in: Wright, Teresa (ed.): Handbook of Dissent and Protest in China, Cheltenham/Northampton: Edward Elgar (forthcoming) 

2017

• The Policy Innovation Imperative: Changing Techniques for Governing China’s Local Governors, in: Shue, Vivienne/Thornton, Patricia (eds.): To Govern China. Evolving Practices of Power, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 279-304 (with Thomas Heberer)
• Tracing Taiwan’s Road to Good Governance, in: Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina/Johnston, Michael (eds): Transitions to Good Governance.
  Creating Virtuous Circles of Anti-corruption, Cheltenham/Northampton: Edward Elgar, pp. 159-183
• Innovationskultur und Innovationssysteme in China, in: Schädler, Monika/Freimuth, Jochen (eds.): Chinas Innovationsstrategie in der globalen Wissensökonomie, Berlin, Springer, pp.61-75

2016

• Taiwan’s Fight Against Corruption. Journal of Democracy, 27 (1), pp. 124-138.
• Regulating Against Revolution. Mapping Policy Innovations in China, Journal of Chinese Governance 1/1 (with Xuelian Chen), online first, DOI 10.1080/23812346.2016.1138702

• Information Technology and the Future of the Chinese State: How the Internet Shapes State-Society Relations in the Digital Age, Comparativ 26/2, pp. 56-74

2015

• Regime Building after Tian’anmen: Fine-tuning Indoctrination, Cooptation, and Repression, in: Backes, Uwe/Kailitz, Steffen (eds.): Ideocracies in Comparison, London: Routledge, pp. 198-220.
• Anticorruption in Taiwan: Process-tracing report, online available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277978228_Anticorruption_in_Taiwan_Process-tracing_report
• Review of Luigi Tomba: The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China, The China Quarterly 222, pp. 560-61

2014

• Government Complaint Websites: Function, Contents, Effects [in German], in: Kaminski, Gerhard (ed.): Wer hört auf die Bürger? Beschwerdewesen in China und Europa, Vienna: Österreichisches Institut für China- und Südostasienforschung 2014, pp.229-245
• Let’s not Go There: Coping with (Pre-) Selection Bias in Collaborative Field Research, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 2/2014, pp. 87-106
• Innovation Society China? Political and Economic Challenges [in German], in: Fischer, Doris und Christoph Müller-Hofstede (eds.): Länderbericht China, Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung 2015, pp. 573-606
• Social Unrest in China, in: Brown, Kerry (ed.); China and the EU in Context. Insights for Business and Investors. Houndmills: Palgrave McMillan 2014, pp. 178-213 (with Lynette Ong)
• Anti-Corruption Policies Revisited: Background paper on Taiwan, online available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277978418_Anti-Corruption_Policies_Revisited_Background_paper_on_Taiwan

2013

• The Information Dilemma: How ICT Strengthen or Weaken Authoritarian Rule, Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 115, 2013, pp. 367-384
• Sustaining Collective Action in Urbanizing China, The China Quarterly 216, 2013, pp. 850-871 (with Xianwen Kuang)
• Warriors Unchained: Critical Junctures and Anticorruption in Taiwan and South Korea, Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 7, 2013, pp. 219-242
• Sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung, in: Kramer, Stefan (Hrsg.): Studienführer Sinologie und Chinaforschung. Tübingen: Narr 2013, pp. 122-138
• Key Factors for Sustainable Development, in: Bertelsmann Foundation (ed.), Assessing Pathways to Success – Need for Reform and Governance Capacities in Asia, Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung 2013 (with Sebastian Maslow)
• Review of John O. McGinnis: Accelerating Democracy: Transforming Governance Through Technology, Democratization, 20 (7), 2013, pp. 1354-1355
• Review of Michael Webber: Making Capitalism in Rural China, China Information: a journal on contemporary China studies, 27 (3), 2013, pp. 390-391

2012

• The Impact of Electoral System Reform on Taiwan’s Local Factions, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 41 (3), 2012, pp. 69-92
• Das Innovationsdilemma und die Konsolidierung autokratischer Regime, Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS), Sonderheft 47, 2012, pp. 132-156
• Legitimation, Kooptation und Repression in der Volksrepublik China, Totalitarismus & Demokratie: Ideokratien im Vergleich, 9 (1), 2012, pp. 149-170
• Government Propaganda and the Organization of Rural China, in: Bislev, Ane und Stig Thøgersen (Hrg.): Organizing Rural China. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield 2012, pp. 51-68.
• Social Unrest in China. Long Briefing Document, Europe China Research and Academic Network (ECRAN), 2012 (with Lynette Ong)

2011

• The Politics of Community Building in Urban China, Abingdon/New York: Routledge 2011 (with Thomas Heberer)
• Uneven Policy Implementation in Rural China, The China Journal 65, 2011, pp. 53-76
• Authoritarian Consolidation, European Political Science 10, 2011, pp. 176-90
• Semiauthoritarianism, in: Ishiyama, John and Marijke Breuning (Hg.): 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage 2011, pp. 258-266
• Paving the Road to New Socialist Countryside: China’s Rural Tax and Fee Reform, in: Alpermann, Björn (Hg.): Markets and Politics in Rural China, Abingdon/New York: Routledge 2011, pp. 155-71
• Democracy, in: International Encyclopaedia of Political Science, Washington D.C.: CQ Press 2011, pp. 387-90 (mit Julia Leininger)
• Review of Carlson, Allen, Mary Gallagher and Kenneth Lieberthal (Hg.): Contemporary Chinese Politics. New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies, The China Journal 66, 2011, pp. 177-180
• Review of Wemheuer, Felix: Steinnudeln: Ländliche Erinnerungen und staatliche Vergangenheitsbewältigung der «Großen Sprung»-Hungersnot in der chinesischen Provinz Henan, The China Quarterly 205, 2011, pp. 194-195

2010

• The Politics of Rural Reform in China: State Policy and Village Predicament in the Early 2000s, Abingdon/New York: Routledge 2010
• The Responsiveness of Authoritarian Regimes [in German], in: Albrecht, Holger and Rolf Frankenberger (Hg.): Autoritarismus Reloaded: Neuere Ansätze und Erkenntnisse der Autokratieforschung, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2010, pp. 79-91 (with Daniel Lambach)
• Review of Keun Lee, Joon-Han Kim and Wing Thye Woo (eds.): Power and Sustainability of the Chinese State, The China Journal 63, 2010, pp. 203-04

2009

• Review of Yongnian Zheng: De Facto Federalism in China, China Perspectives 2009/02, S. 117-119
• Review of Björn Gustafsson, Li Shi and Terry Sicular (Hg.): Inequality and Public Policy in China, East Asia: An International Quarterly Vol. 26. No. 2, 2009, pp. 159-161
• Review of Chen Guidi and Wang Chuntao: Zur Lage der Chinesischen Bauern: Eine Reportage, Sinologie Heidelberg Alumi Netzwerk, 2009

2008

• Measuring and Explaining the Distributive Effects of the Rural Tax and Fee Reform in Anhui Province, China, China Perspectives 2008/02, pp. 58-79
• Warriors in Chains: Institutional Legacies and Anti-Corruption Programs in Taiwan and South Korea, in: Lamour, Peter and Luís de Sousa (Hg.): The New Integrity Warriors: The Vices and Virtues of Governmental and Non-governmental Anti-corruption, London/New York: Routledge 2008, pp. 178-212
• The Peasant’s Rescue from the Cadre? – An Institutional Analysis of China’s Rural Tax and Fee Reforms, in: Heberer, Thomas and Gunter Schubert (Hg.): Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Contemporary China, London/New York: Routledge 2008, pp. 35-54

2006

• Der lange Arm des Autoritarismus: Wahlen und Regierbarkeit in Taiwan und Südkorea, in: Derichs, Claudia and Thomas Heberer (Hg.): Wahlsysteme und Wahltypen. Politische Systeme und regionale Kontexte im Vergleich, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2006, pp. 217-239
• Review of Ko-lin Chin, Heijin: Organized Crime, Business and Politics in Taiwan, China Perspectives No. 62 (2006), pp.64-66.

2005

• Vollständige Neubearbeitung der Einträge “VR China: Grunddaten”, “VR China: Politik”, “VR China: Wirtschaft” und “VR China: Soziales und Kultur”, “PR China: economy” and “PR China: society and culture”, in: Internationales Handbuch – Länder aktuell, Ravensburg: Munzinger Archiv 2005.

2004

• Beheading the Hydra: Combating Political Corruption and Organized Crime in the KMT and DPP Eras, China Perspectives No. 56, 2004, S. 14-25; reprinted in Fell, Daffyd (ed.): Politics of Modern Taiwan: Critical Concepts in Modern Politics of Asia, London/New York: Routledge 2008, Vol. 3, S. 320-341 and Dafydd Fell, Henning Klöter and Chang Bi-yu (eds.), What has Changed? Taiwan Before and After the Change in Ruling Parties, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2006, pp. 61-82
• Task Force: Zivilgesellschaftliche Entwicklung in China, Duisburger Arbeitspapiere Ostasienwissenschaften No. 64, 2004 (ed. with Thomas Heberer).
• Feldforschung im ländlichen China: Chancen, Risiken, Konsequenzen, in: Heberer, Thomas and Anja Senz (Hg.): Feldforschung in Asien. Erlebnisse and Ergebnisse aus der Sicht politikwissenschaftlicher Ostasienforschung, Duisburger Arbeitspapiere Ostasienwissenschaften No 60, 2004, pp. 22-30.
• Come by the Wind. Li Fan’s Story in Buyun Election, Duisburger Arbeitspapiere Ostasienwissenschaften No 59, 2004 (ed. witht Anja Senz).
• Wolfgang Merkel, Demokratie in Asien: Ein Kontinent zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie, European Journal of East Asian Studies Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004, pp. 371-374
• Wolfgang Merkel, Demokratie in Asien: Ein Kontinent zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie, ASIEN No. 93, 2004, pp. 106-108

2001

• Towards a Consolidated Democracy? Informal and Formal Institutions in Taiwan’s Political Process, 2001, SOAS Taiwan Studies Working Papers, online
• Taiwan’s Democratic Consolidation, 2000 – 2001. About 1000 Internet documents collected by Christan Goebel, online: https://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/archive/donations/goebel030214/

Policy Briefs

• China’s City Building Ambitions Will Shake the World. Oxford Analytica Daily Brief. 14. August 2014.
• Migration Control will Boost China’s Cities. Oxford Analytica Daily Brief. 28. Mai 2014.
• Political Reforms Will Emerge in China, But Not Spread, Oxford Analytica Global Strategic Analysis, 17. Juli 2013
• E-government bolsters Beijing’s Control, Oxford Analytica Global Strategic Analysis, 26. März 2013
• Reforms will Reconfigure China’s Agricultural Sector, Oxford Analytica Global Strategic Analysis, 12. März 2013
• What does the Bo Xilai scandal tell us about China’s political system?, AsiaPortal: InFocus, 10. Mai 2012
• Social Unrest in China. Long Briefing Document, Europe China Research and Academic Network (ECRAN), 2012 (mit Lynette Ong). Executive Summary
• China’s New Strategy Targets Social Unrest, Oxford Analytica Global Strategic Analysis, 19. August 2011
• Beijing Retains Firm Grip Despite Rising Protests, Oxford Analytica Global Strategic Analysis, 14. Juli 2011
• Draught and Floods in China Reopen Water Debate, Oxford Analytica Global Strategic Analysis, 16. Juni 2011
• Demokratievåg kan nå Kina (the democratic wave might reach China), Sydsvenskan, 17 March 2011, p. A5
• China: Water Rises as Sustainability Priority, Oxford Analytica Global Strategic Analysis, 17. März 2011
• Are the “Flower Revolutions” in the Middle East and North Africa Endangering Stability in China? NIAS In Focus, 2. März 2011, https://barha.asiaportal.info/blogs/in-focus/2011/march/are-flower-revolutions-middle-east-and-north-africa-endangering-stability-
• China: CCP faces constant rural test, Oxford Analytica Global Strategic Analysis, 26 Oktober 2010
• Von der “dritten Revolution auf dem Lande” zum “neuen sozialistischen Dorf”, Food First No. 4, 2006, S. 6