| The Chinese worker after socialism W Hurst Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 380 | 2009 |
| China's contentious pensioners W Hurst, KJ O'Brien The China Quarterly 170, 345-360, 2002 | 321 | 2002 |
| China's Phantom Urbanization and the Pathology of Ghost Cities C Sorace, W Hurst Journal of Contemporary Asia 46 (2), 304-322, 2016 | 184 | 2016 |
| Understanding contentious collective action by Chinese laid-off workers: the importance of regional political economy W Hurst Studies in Comparative International Development 39 (2), 94-120, 2004 | 154 | 2004 |
| Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance JC Teets, W Hurst Routledge, 2015 | 107* | 2015 |
| Mass frames and worker protest W Hurst Popular protest in China, 71-87, 2008 | 77 | 2008 |
| Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia W Hurst | 61 | 2018 |
| The Judicial Cadre Evaluation System in China: From Quantification to Intra-State Legibility JJ Kinkel, W Hurst The China Quarterly, 933-954, 2015 | 59 | 2015 |
| Laid-Off Workers in a Workers' State: Unemployment with Chinese Characteristics QL T Gold, W Hurst, J Won Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 | 53* | 2009 |
| Reassessing Collective Petitioning in Rural China: Civic Engagement, Extra-State Violence, and Regional Variation W Hurst, M Liu, Y Liu, R Tao Comparative Politics 46 (4), 459-482, 2014 | 48 | 2014 |
| Social Unrest ME Reny, W Hurst Handbook of Chinese Governance and Domestic Politics (C. Ogden editor …, 2013 | 41 | 2013 |
| Introduction: the politics and patterns of policy diffusion in China JC Teets, WJ Hurst Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and …, 2014 | 34 | 2014 |
| The City as the Focus The Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Urban Politics W Hurst China Information 20 (3), 457-479, 2006 | 33 | 2006 |
| Analysis in limbo: contemporary Chinese politics amid the maturation of reform L Dittmer, W Hurst Issues & Studies 38 (4), 11-48, 2003 | 31 | 2003 |
| Access to Justice in Post-Mao China: Assessing the Politics of Criminal and Administrative Law JJ Kinkel, W Hurst Journal of East Asian Studies 11 (3), 467-499, 2011 | 25 | 2011 |
| Cases, Questions, and Comparison in Research on Contemporary Chinese Politics W Hurst Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies, 162, 2010 | 23 | 2010 |
| Chinese law and governance: moving beyond responsive authoritarianism and the rule of law W Hurst Journal of Chinese Governance 1 (3), 457-469, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Rebuilding the urban Chinese welfare state: Authoritarian accommodation and multi-level governance W Hurst China Perspectives, 35-42, 2011 | 12 | 2011 |
| The Power of the Past: Nostalgia and Popular Discontent in Contemporary China W Hurst Laid-off Workers in a Workers’ State: Unemployment with Chinese …, 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
| Treating What Ails the Study of Chinese Politics W Hurst Made in China Yearbook 2017: Gilded Age, 106-111, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
Kevin O'BrienProfessor of Political Science, University of California, BerkeleyVerified email at berkeley.edu
