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10439
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798
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Kevin J. O'Brien publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kevin J. O'Brien sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 113 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Kevin J. O'Brien D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kevin J. O'Brien sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 34 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Kevin J. O'Brien is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with 29 publications related to this broad field. They have a focused body of work in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations.

Their academic output includes investigations into topics such as:

  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Religion, Society, and Development
  • Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
  • Chinese History and Philosophy
  • Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • E-Government and Public Services

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • BUREAUCRAT-ASSISTED CONTENTION IN CHINA*, published in 2020 in Mobilization An International Quarterly
  • Neither Withdrawal nor Resistance: Adapting to Increased Repression in China, published in 2022 in Modern China
  • How grassroots cadres broker land taking in urbanizing China, published in 2020 in The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Value clashes, power competition and community trust: why an NGO's earthquake recovery program faltered in rural China, published in 2020 in The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Finnish inventory data of underwater marine biodiversity, published in 2024 in Scientific Data

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Yanhua Deng
  • Lianjiang Li
  • Mingxing Liu
  • Li Zhang
  • Louise Forsblom

Kevin J. O'Brien's publications have appeared in a range of journals and platforms, most notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture
  • Mobilization An International Quarterly
  • Modern China

Their book contributions include one publication at the University of Sydney:

  • Our Voices II: The DE-colonial Project, 2021

Best Publications

  • Rightful Resistance in Rural China

    Kevin J. O'Brien;Lianjiang Li

  • Selective Policy Implementation in Rural China

    Kevin J. O’Brien;Lianjiang Li

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

    Kevin J. O'Brien;Lianjiang Li

  • Villagers and Popular Resistance in Contemporary China

    Lianjiang Li;Kevin J. O'Brien

  • Implementing Political Reform in China's Villages

    Kevin J. O'Brien

  • The Politics of Lodging Complaints in Rural China

    Kevin J. O'Brien;Lianjiang Li

  • China's Contentious Pensioners

    William J. Hurst;Kevin J. O'Brien

  • Path to Democracy? Assessing village elections in China

    Kevin J. O'Brien;Rongbin Han

  • Suing the Local State: Administrative Litigation in Rural China

    Kevin J. O'Brien;Lianjiang Li

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

    Yanhua Deng;Kevin J. O'Brien

  • Villagers, Elections, and Citizenship in Contemporary China:

    Kevin J. O’Brien

  • Popular Protest in China

    Kevin Jhg O'Brien

  • Politics at the Boundary Mixed Signals and the Chinese State

    Rachel E. Stern;Kevin J. O'Brien

  • Protest Leadership in Rural China

    Lianjiang Li;Kevin J. O'brien

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

    Kevin J. O'Brien

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

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

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

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

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

    Kevin J. O'Brien

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

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

  • Rightful resistance revisited

    Kevin J. O'Brien

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

    Kevin J. O'Brien

  • The Struggle Over Village Elections

    Lianjiang Li;Kevin J O'Brien

  • Rural politics in contemporary China

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

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

    Kevin J. O'Brien;Yanhua Deng

  • Introduction: Studying Contention in Contemporary China

    Kevin J. O’Brien;Rachel E. Stern

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

    Kevin J. O'Brien;Yanhua Deng

  • Local People's Congresses and Governing China

    Kevin J. O'Brien

  • BUREAUCRAT-ASSISTED CONTENTION IN CHINA*

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

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

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

  • Grassroots elections in China

    Kevin J. O'Brien;Suisheng Zhao

  • Studying Contention in Contemporary China

    Kevin J. O'Brien;Rachel E. Stern

  • 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

  • How grassroots cadres broker land taking in urbanizing China

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

  • China's Disaffected Insiders

    Kevin J. O'Brien

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

    Yanhua Deng;Kevin J. O’Brien

  • Speaking to theory and speaking to the China field

    Kevin J. O’Brien

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

    Kevin J. O'Brien;Laura M. Luerhrmann

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Lianjiang Li
Lianjiang Li University of Hong Kong
Xiang Zhang
Xiang Zhang University of Hong Kong
Xiaobo Yin
Xiaobo Yin University of Hong Kong
C. L. Chang
C. L. Chang Argonne National Laboratory
Alexandre Blais
Alexandre Blais Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Kent D. Irwin
Kent D. Irwin Stanford University
Supratik Guha
Supratik Guha Argonne National Laboratory
Tijana Rajh
Tijana Rajh Arizona State University

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