Published Papers | Alexander Lee

Lee, Alexander, Weihong Qi and Dehua Sun. “State Mobilization and Political Attitudes: The Legacy of Maoist Rural Resettlement in Contemporary China” Political Science Research and Methods. Forthcoming. Paper, Appendix, Replication Data
Lee, Alexander and Weihong Qi. “Election symbols and vote choice: evidence from India.” Political Science Research and Methods. 2024. 12:2, 879-887. 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 Inequality at the Grassroots: Local Public Goods in an Indian District, 1905-2011” Comparative Political Studies 2023. 56:12, 1824-57. Paper Replication Data
Lee, Alexander and Jack Paine. “The Great Revenue Divergence” International Organization 2023. 77:2, 363-404. Paper Replication Data
Lee, Alexander. “The Library of Babel: How (and How Not) to Use Archival Sources in Political Science” Journal of Historical Political Economy 2022. 2:3, 499-526. 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. 2020, 64:4, 757-72. Paper Replication Data
Acharya, Avidit and Alexander Lee. “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 Lee. “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?” International Studies Quarterly 2019, 63(2), 406-16. Paper Replication Data
Lee, Alexander. “Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Discrimination: Explaining Local Public Goods Provision” Comparative Political Studies. 2018, 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, Alexander and 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