| Legibility and the Informational Foundations of State Capacity MM Lee, N Zhang The Journal of Politics 79 (1), 118-132, 2017 | 385 | 2017 |
| Taking the State (Back) Out? Statehood and the Delivery of Collective Goods MM Lee, G Walter‐Drop, J Wiesel Governance 27 (4), 635-654, 2014 | 126 | 2014 |
| Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State MM Lee Crippling Leviathan, 2020 | 122* | 2020 |
| The International Politics of Incomplete Sovereignty: How Hostile Neighbors Weaken the State MM Lee International Organization 72 (2), 283-315, 2018 | 105 | 2018 |
| Literacy and State–Society Interactions in Nineteenth‐Century France N Zhang, MM Lee American Journal of Political Science, 2020 | 36 | 2020 |
| Aid Externalities: Evidence from PEPFAR in Africa MM Lee, MP Izama World Development 67, 281-294, 2015 | 36 | 2015 |
| International Statebuilding and the Domestic Politics of State Development MM Lee Annual Review of Political Science 25, 261-281, 2022 | 28 | 2022 |
| War and Welfare in Colonial Algeria G Koehler-Derrick, MM Lee International Organization 77 (2), 263-293, 2023 | 18 | 2023 |
| Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 1945 D Altman, MM Lee International Studies Quarterly 66 (4), sqac076, 2022 | 18 | 2022 |
| Selling international law enforcement: Elite justifications and public values MM Lee, L Prather Research & Politics 7 (3), 2053168020956789, 2020 | 15 | 2020 |
| Third-Party Policymakers and the Limits of the Influence of Indicators MM Lee, AM Matanock The Power of Global Performance Indicators, 341-374, 2020 | 5 | 2020 |
| Mind the Gap? The International Sources of Sovereignty and State Weakness MM Lee Stanford University, 2015 | 5* | 2015 |
| From Pluribus to Unum? The Civil War and Imagined Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century America MM Lee, N Zhang, T Herchenroeder American Political Science Review 118 (1), 127-143, 2024 | 3 | 2024 |
| Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries NAN ZHANG, MM LEE American Political Science Review, 1-10, 2025 | | 2025 |
| Taking the State (Back) Out? A Reply to Peters and Pierre MM Lee, G Walter‐Drop Governance 28 (3), 397-399, 2015 | | 2015 |