Published Papers

  • Lee, Alexander and Weihong Qi. “Election Symbols in India.” Political Science Research and Methods. Forthcoming. Paper. Appendix. Replication Data
  • Karekurve-Ramachandra, Varun and Alexander Lee.“Can Gender Quotas Improve Public Service Provision? Evidence from Indian Local Government.” Comparative Political Studies. Forthcoming. Paper. Replication Data
  • Lee, Alexander. “Historical Legacies at the Grassroots: Local Public Goods in Agra District, 1905-2011″ Forthcoming, Comparative Political Studies. Paper Replication Data
  • Lee, Alexander and Jack Paine. “The Great Revenue Divergence” Forthcoming, International Organization. Paper Replication Data
  • Lee, Alexander. “The Library of Babel Problem: Hypothesis Testing with Archival Sources” Forthcoming, Journal of Historical Political Economy. Paper
  • Lee, Alexander. “Does Affirmative Action Work? Evaluating India’s Quota System.” Comparative Political Studies.2021. 54:9, 1534-64  Paper   Replication Data
  • Bhavnani, Rikhil and Alexander Lee. “Does Affirmative Action Worsen Bureaucratic Performance? Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service” American Journal of Political Science 2021, 65.1: 5-20. Paper  Replication Data
  • Desai, Zuheir and Alexander Lee. “Technology, Choice, and Fragmentation: The Political Effects of Electronic Voting in India.” Political Science Research and Methods. 2021, 9:2, 398-413. Paper Appendix
  • Karekurve-Ramachandra, Varun and Alexander Lee. “Do gender quotas hurt less privileged groups? Evidence from India.’’American Journal of Political Science. 64:4 757-72. Paper Replication Data
  • Acharya, Avidit and Alexander “Path Dependence in European Development: Medieval Politics, Conflict and State Building” Comparative Political Studies 2019, 52 (13-14), 2171-2206. Paper
  • Lee, Alexander and Jack Paine. “British Colonialism and Democracy: Divergent Inheritances and Diminishing Legacies” Journal of Comparative Economics. 2019, 47(3), 487-503.Paper Replication Data
  • Lee, Alexander. “Incumbency, Parties and Legislatures: Theory and Evidence from India” Comparative Politics. 2019, 52(2), January, 1-21. Paper  Appendix
  • Lee, Alexander.“Land, State Capacity and Colonialism: Evidence from India” Comparative Political Studies, 2019, 52(3), 412-444. Paper Replication Data
  • Lee, Alexander.“The Origins of Ethnic Activism: Caste Politics in Colonial India.”, Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, 2019, 4(1), 148-79. Paper
  • Acharya, Avidit and Alexander “Economic Foundations of the Territorial State System.” American Journal of Political Science, 2018, 62(4), 954-66. Paper
  • Lee, Alexander and Jack Paine. “What were the Consequences of Decolonization?” Online Pre-Print, International Studies Quarterly. Paper Replication Data
  • Lee, Alexander.“Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Discrimination: Explaining Local Public Goods Provision” Comparative Political Studies. 51(10), 1351-83. Paper Replication Data
  • Bhavnani, Rikhil and Alexander Lee. “Local Embeddedness and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from India” The Journal of Politics, 2018, 80.1, 71-87.  Paper Replication Data
  • Lee, Alexander. “Redistributive Colonialism: The Long Term Legacy of International Conflict in India.” Politics and Society, 2017, 45.2, 173-224. Paper Replication Data
  • Lee, Alexanderand Kenneth Schultz. “Comparing British and French Colonial Legacies: A Discontinuity Analysis of Cameroon.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2012, 7: 1–46. Paper Replication Data
  • Lee, Alexander. “Who Becomes a Terrorist?: Poverty, Education, and the Origins of Political Violence.” World Politics, 2011, 63: 203-245. Replication Data Paper