Kevin J. O'Brien

Overview

Best Publications

• Rightful Resistance in Rural China

  Kevin J. O'Brien;Lianjiang Li

  2023
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• Selective Policy Implementation in Rural China

  Kevin J. O’Brien;Lianjiang Li

  542
  Citations

• Accommodating “Democracy” in a One-Party State: Introducing Village Elections in China*

  Kevin J. O'Brien;Lianjiang Li

  503
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• Villagers and Popular Resistance in Contemporary China

  Lianjiang Li;Kevin J. O'Brien

  465
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• Implementing Political Reform in China's Villages

  Kevin J. O'Brien

  368
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• The Politics of Lodging Complaints in Rural China

  Kevin J. O'Brien;Lianjiang Li

  329
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• China's Contentious Pensioners

  William J. Hurst;Kevin J. O'Brien

  314
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• Path to Democracy? Assessing village elections in China

  Kevin J. O'Brien;Rongbin Han

  312
  Citations

• Suing the Local State: Administrative Litigation in Rural China

  Kevin J. O'Brien;Lianjiang Li

  302
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• Relational Repression in China: Using Social Ties to Demobilize Protesters

  Yanhua Deng;Kevin J. O'Brien

  299
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• Villagers, Elections, and Citizenship in Contemporary China:

  Kevin J. O’Brien

  276
  Citations

• Popular Protest in China

  Kevin Jhg O'Brien

  250
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• Politics at the Boundary Mixed Signals and the Chinese State

  Rachel E. Stern;Kevin J. O'Brien

  249
  Citations

• Protest Leadership in Rural China

  Lianjiang Li;Kevin J. O'brien

  228
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• Neither Transgressive nor Contained: Boundary-Spanning Contention in China

  Kevin J. O'Brien

  200
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• Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice

  Neil Jeffrey Diamant;Stanley B. Lubman;Kevin J. O'Brien

  178
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• Petitioning Beijing: The High Tide of 2003–2006*

  Lianjiang Li;Mingxing Liu;Kevin J. O'Brien

  168
  Citations

• Agents and remonstrators: Role accumulation by chinese people’s congress deputies

  Kevin J. O'Brien

  156
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• Optical and acoustic metamaterials: superlens, negative refractive index and invisibility cloak

  Zi Jing Wong;Yuan Wang;Yuan Wang;Kevin O’Brien;Junsuk Rho

  151
  Citations

• Rightful resistance revisited

  Kevin J. O'Brien

  148
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• Reform without Liberalization: China's National People's Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change

  Kevin J. O'Brien

  144
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• The Struggle Over Village Elections

  Lianjiang Li;Kevin J O'Brien

  126
  Citations

• Rural politics in contemporary China

  Emily T. Yeh;Kevin J. O'Brien;Jingzhong Ye

  96
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• Repression Backfires: tactical radicalization and protest spectacle in rural China

  Kevin J. O'Brien;Yanhua Deng

  86
  Citations

• Introduction: Studying Contention in Contemporary China

  Kevin J. O’Brien;Rachel E. Stern

  83
  Citations

• Preventing Protest One Person at a Time: Psychological Coercion and Relational Repression in China*

  Kevin J. O'Brien;Yanhua Deng

  33
  Citations

• Local People's Congresses and Governing China

  Kevin J. O'Brien

  27
  Citations

• BUREAUCRAT-ASSISTED CONTENTION IN CHINA*

  Kevin J. O’Brien;Lianjiang Li;Mingxing Liu

  18
  Citations

• Law and Society in the People's Republic of China

  Neil J Diamant;Stanley Lubman;Kevin J. O'Brien

  13
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• Grassroots elections in China

  Kevin J. O'Brien;Suisheng Zhao

  12
  Citations

• Studying Contention in Contemporary China

  Kevin J. O'Brien;Rachel E. Stern

  11
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• Enthusiastic Policy Implementation and its Aftermath: The Sudden Expansion and Contraction of China's Microfinance for Women Programme

  Yanhua Deng;Kevin J. O'Brien;Jiajian Chen

  10
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• How grassroots cadres broker land taking in urbanizing China

  Yanhua Deng;Kevin J. O’Brien;Li Zhang

  9
  Citations

• China's Disaffected Insiders

  Kevin J. O'Brien

  8
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• Value clashes, power competition and community trust: why an NGO’s earthquake recovery program faltered in rural China

  Yanhua Deng;Kevin J. O’Brien

  7
  Citations

• Speaking to theory and speaking to the China field

  Kevin J. O’Brien

  6
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• Institutionalizing Chinese Legislatures: Trade-Offs between Autonomy and Capacity

  Kevin J. O'Brien;Laura M. Luerhrmann

  6
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• Peasant Power in China: The Era of Rural Reform, 1979–1989 . By Daniel Kelliher. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. Pp. 264. $30.00.)

  Kevin J. O'Brien

  0
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