Papers

Peer Reviewed Articles

Jiang, Jiying. “Discovering Controversies Through Reversions: A Text-based Analysis of China’s Two-Phase Bill Changes.” Accepted at The China Quarterly.

Jiang, Jiying. 2025. “NPC Amendments: Understanding Drivers of Bill Revision in the Chinese National Legislature.” Journal of Contemporary China, 1–18. [link]

Chiba, Daina, Meng U Ieong, and Jiying Jiang. 2025. “Legislative Politics under ‘One Country, Two Systems’: Evidence from Macau, 2013–2021.” The China Quarterly 264: 1071–90. [link]

Jiang, Jiying. 2024. “Not Just Rubber-Stamping: Understanding the Amending Role of the Chinese Legislature with Bill Text Reuse.” Democratization 31 (6): 1252–71. [link]

Jiang, Jiying. 2023. “Leading Small Groups, Agency Coordination and Policy Making in China.” The China Journal 89: 95-120. [link]

Working Papers

“The Cause of Statute Ambiguity: Bureaucratic Factionalism and Lawmaking in China”

Selected Works in Progress

Legislative Transparency in China (with Germà Bel)

Tracking Bill Changes in China’s Two-phase Lawmaking Process

Evaluating Executive Responsiveness to Legislative Regulatory Delegations in China

Bill Preparation and Legislative Scrutiny: Theory and Evidence from China (with Tianrui Li)

Policy Disputes and Their Resolutions in the Chinese National Legislature

Consequences of Statutory Ambiguity: Evidence from China