{"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":"2026-09-21T18:51:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T22:51:54","slug":"published-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/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 <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> and Weihong Qi. \u201cElection symbols and vote choice: evidence from India.\u201d<i> Political Science Research and Methods. <\/i>2024. 12:2, 879-887. <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\/IO9SLQ\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander. <\/strong>\u201cHistorical Inequality at the Grassroots: Local Public Goods in an Indian District, 1905-2011\u201d <em>Comparative Political Studies<\/em> 2023. 56:12, 1824-57. <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 <em>International Organization<\/em> 2023. 77:2, 363-404. <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: How (and How Not) to Use Archival Sources in Political Science\u201d <em>Journal of Historical Political Economy<\/em> 2022. 2:3, 499-526. <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 <em>Comparative Political Studies.<\/em> 2021. 54:9, 1534-64 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/respaper-cps-ca.pdf\">Paper <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910\/DVN\/YWKZHJ\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bhavnani, Rikhil and <strong>Alexander Lee<\/strong>. \u201cDoes Affirmative Action Worsen Bureaucratic Performance? Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service\u201d <em>American Journal of Political Science<\/em> 2021, 65.1: 5-20. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BL_Does_AA_worsen_bureaucratic_performance.pdf\">Paper <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910\/DVN\/MS6ZTZ\">Replication Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Desai, Zuheir and <strong>Alexander Lee. <\/strong>\u201cTechnology, Choice, and Fragmentation: The Political Effects of Electronic Voting in India.\u201d <em>Political Science Research and Methods.<\/em> 2021, 9:2, 398-413. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EVM-paper-revision2.pdf\">Paper<\/a> <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> Alexander Lee.<\/strong> \u201cDo gender quotas hurt less privileged groups? Evidence from India.\u201d <em>American Journal of Political Science<\/em>. 2020, 64:4, 757-72. <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 <strong>Alexander Lee<\/strong>. \u201cPath Dependence in European Development: Medieval Politics, Conflict and State Building\u201d <em>Comparative Political Studies<\/em> 2019, 52 (13-14), 2171-2206.<em> <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/stanford.edu\/~avidit\/europe.pdf\">Paper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee, Alexander<\/strong> and Jack Paine. \u201cBritish Colonialism and Democracy: Divergent Inheritances and Diminishing Legacies\u201d <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 <em>Comparative Politics. <\/em>2019, 52(2), January, 1-21.<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/incumbencyRR.pdf\">Paper<\/a> <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 <em>Comparative Political Studies<\/em>, 2019, 52(3), 412-444. <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 <em>Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, <\/em>2019, 4(1), 148-79. <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 <strong>Alexander Lee<\/strong>. \u201cEconomic Foundations of the Territorial State System.\u201d <em>American Journal of Political Science<\/em>, 2018, 62(4), 954-66. <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 <\/strong>and Jack Paine. \u201cWhat were the Consequences of Decolonization?\u201d <em>International Studies Quarterly<\/em> 2019, 63(2), 406-16. <a href=\"http:\/\/nebula.wsimg.com\/13d6893f92e5d05a44adcd9036742b76?AccessKeyId=FD7670AEAE23BB8C3DAE&amp;disposition=0&amp;alloworigin=1\">Paper<\/a> <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 <em>Comparative Political Studies<\/em>. 2018, 51(10), 1351-83. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ethnicity-CPS.pdf\">Paper<\/a> <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 <strong>Alexander Lee<\/strong>. \u201cLocal Embeddedness and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from India\u201d <em>The Journal of Politics<\/em>, 2018, 80.1, 71-87. <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 <em>Politics and Society, <\/em>2017, 45.2, 173-224. <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 <em>Quarterly Journal of Political Science<\/em>, 2012, 7: 1\u201346. <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 <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 Data<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/alexander_lee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lee-2011.pdf\">Paper<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee, Alexander, Weihong Qi and Dehua Sun. \u201cState Mobilization and Political Attitudes: The Legacy of Maoist Rural Resettlement in Contemporary China\u201d Political Science Research 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