{"id":902,"date":"2015-01-16T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/?page_id=902"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:13:20","slug":"published-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/?page_id=902","title":{"rendered":"Published Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander<\/strong>, Weihong Qi and Dehua Sun. \u201cState Mobilization and Political Attitudes: The Legacy of Maoist Rural Resettlement in Contemporary China\u201d \u00a0<i>Political Science Research and Methods. <\/i>Forthcoming. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SentDown_PSRM.pdf\">Paper, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/urn_cambridge.org_id_binary_20251111153820738-0188_S2049847025100526_S2049847025100526sup001.pdf\">Appendix,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910\/DVN\/HPUQPA\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander<\/strong>\u00a0and Weihong Qi. \u201cElection Symbols in India.\u201d<i> Political Science Research and Methods. <\/i>Forthcoming. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/paperRR.pdf\">Paper.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/appendix.pdf\">Appendix.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910\/DVN\/TJ8CUV\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Karekurve-Ramachandra, Varun and <strong>Alexander Lee<\/strong><i>.<\/i>\u201cCan Gender Quotas Improve Public Service Provision? Evidence from Indian Local Government.\u201d<i> Comparative Political Studies.<\/i> Forthcoming. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/gender-performance_CPS-RR.pdf\">Paper.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910\/DVN\/0QOVCH\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cHistorical Legacies at the Grassroots: Local Public Goods in Agra District, 1905-2011&#8243; Forthcoming, <em>Comparative Political Studies<\/em>. <a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Agra10.pdf\">Paper<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910\/DVN\/VSRNFS\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander <\/strong>and Jack Paine. \u201cThe Great Revenue Divergence\u201d Forthcoming,<em>\u00a0International Organization<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IO-final.pdf\">Paper<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910\/DVN\/DI0COW\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander<\/strong>. \u201cThe Library of Babel Problem: Hypothesis Testing with Archival Sources\u201d Forthcoming,\u00a0<em>Journal of Historical Political Economy<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/archives5.pdf\">Paper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander<\/strong>. \u201cDoes Affirmative Action Work? Evaluating India&#8217;s Quota System.\u201d\u00a0<em>Comparative Political Studies.<\/em>2021. 54:9, 1534-64\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/respaper-cps-ca.pdf\">Paper\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910\/DVN\/YWKZHJ\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bhavnani, Rikhil and\u00a0<strong>Alexander Lee<\/strong>. \u201cDoes Affirmative Action Worsen Bureaucratic Performance? Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service\u201d\u00a0<em>American Journal of Political Science<\/em>\u00a02021, 65.1: 5-20.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BL_Does_AA_worsen_bureaucratic_performance.pdf\">Paper\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910\/DVN\/MS6ZTZ\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Desai, Zuheir and\u00a0<strong>Alexander Lee.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cTechnology, Choice, and Fragmentation: The Political Effects of Electronic Voting in India.\u201d\u00a0<em>Political Science Research and Methods.<\/em>\u00a02021, 9:2, 398-413.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EVM-paper-revision2.pdf\">Paper<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Appendix.pdf\">Appendix<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Karekurve-Ramachandra, Varun and<strong>\u00a0Alexander Lee.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cDo gender quotas hurt less privileged groups? Evidence from India.\u2019\u2019<em>American Journal of Political Science<\/em>. 64:4 757-72.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ajps_ca.pdf\">Paper<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7910\/DVN\/0QOVCH\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Acharya, Avidit and\u00a0<strong>Alexander<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cPath Dependence in European Development: Medieval Politics, Conflict and State Building\u201d\u00a0<em>Comparative Political Studies<\/em>\u00a02019, 52 (13-14), 2171-2206.<em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/stanford.edu\/~avidit\/europe.pdf\">Paper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander<\/strong>\u00a0and Jack Paine. \u201cBritish Colonialism and Democracy: Divergent Inheritances and Diminishing Legacies\u201d\u00a0<em>Journal of Comparative Economics<\/em>. 2019, 47(3), 487-503.<a href=\"http:\/\/nebula.wsimg.com\/3b1a87709c35ad392b8d1717748d990f?AccessKeyId=FD7670AEAE23BB8C3DAE&amp;disposition=0&amp;alloworigin=1\">Paper <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910\/DVN\/EJQ2WK\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander<\/strong>. \u201cIncumbency, Parties and Legislatures: Theory and Evidence from India\u201d\u00a0<em>Comparative Politics.\u00a0<\/em>2019, 52(2), January, 1-21.<em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/incumbencyRR.pdf\">Paper<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/incumbencyRR.pdf\">Appendix<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander<\/strong>.\u201cLand, State Capacity and Colonialism: Evidence from India\u201d\u00a0<em>Comparative Political Studies<\/em>, 2019, 52(3), 412-444.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/statecap-cps-ca.pdf\">Paper<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/zamindar.zip\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander<\/strong>.\u201cThe Origins of Ethnic Activism: Caste Politics in Colonial India.\u201d,\u00a0<em>Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics,\u00a0<\/em>2019, 4(1), 148-79.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mobilization-ca.pdf\">Paper<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Acharya, Avidit and\u00a0<strong>Alexander<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cEconomic Foundations of the Territorial State System.\u201d\u00a0<em>American Journal of Political Science<\/em>, 2018, 62(4), 954-66.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/statesystem-AJPS-ms-final.pdf\">Paper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander\u00a0<\/strong>and Jack Paine. \u201cWhat were the Consequences of Decolonization?\u201d Online Pre-Print,\u00a0<em>International Studies Quarterly<\/em>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nebula.wsimg.com\/13d6893f92e5d05a44adcd9036742b76?AccessKeyId=FD7670AEAE23BB8C3DAE&amp;disposition=0&amp;alloworigin=1\">Paper<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910\/DVN\/ABSCFP\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander<\/strong>.\u201cEthnic Diversity and Ethnic Discrimination: Explaining Local Public Goods Provision\u201d\u00a0<em>Comparative Political Studies.\u00a0<\/em>51(10), 1351-83.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ethnicity-CPS.pdf\">Paper<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ethnicity.zip\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bhavnani, Rikhil and\u00a0<strong>Alexander Lee<\/strong>. \u201cLocal Embeddedness and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from India\u201d\u00a0<em>The Journal of Politics<\/em>, 2018, 80.1, 71-87. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BhavnaniLeeLeadershipDevelopmentAccepted.pdf\">Paper<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910\/DVN\/TWDSBW\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander<\/strong>. \u201cRedistributive Colonialism: The Long Term Legacy of International Conflict in India.\u201d\u00a0<em>Politics and Society,\u00a0<\/em>2017, 45.2, 173-224.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/redistribution_february.pdf\">Paper<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Appendix.xlsx\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander<\/strong>and Kenneth Schultz. \u201cComparing British and French Colonial Legacies: A Discontinuity Analysis of Cameroon.\u201d\u00a0<em>Quarterly Journal of Political Science<\/em>, 2012, 7: 1\u201346.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lee-schultz-2012.pdf\">Paper<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Cameroon-Replication.zip\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander<\/strong>. \u201cWho Becomes a Terrorist?: Poverty, Education, and the Origins of Political Violence.\u201d\u00a0<em>World Politics<\/em>, 2011, 63: 203-245. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bengal-Replication.zip\">Replication 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