| Maintaining popular support for the Chinese Communist Party: The influence of education and the state-controlled media JJ Kennedy Political Studies 57 (3), 517-536, 2009 | 240 | 2009 |
| From the tax-for-fee reform to the abolition of agricultural taxes: the impact on township governments in north-west China JJ Kennedy The China Quarterly 189, 43-59, 2007 | 232 | 2007 |
| The face of" grassroots democracy" in rural China: real versus cosmetic elections JJ Kennedy Asian Survey 42 (3), 456-482, 2002 | 131 | 2002 |
| Elected leaders and collective land: Farmers’ evaluation of village leaders’ performance in rural China JJ Kennedy, S Rozelle, Y Shi Journal of Chinese Political Science 9 (1), 1-22, 2004 | 105 | 2004 |
| Delayed registration and identifying the “missing girls” in China Y Shi, JJ Kennedy The China Quarterly 228, 1018-1038, 2016 | 72 | 2016 |
| State capacity and cadre mobilization in China: The elasticity of policy implementation JJ Kennedy, D Chen Journal of Contemporary China 27 (111), 393-405, 2018 | 48 | 2018 |
| The implementation of village elections and tax-for-fee reform in rural northwest China JJ Kennedy Harvard Contemporary China Series 14, 48, 2007 | 44 | 2007 |
| Legitimacy with Chinese Characteristics:‘two increases, one reduction’ JJ Kennedy Journal of Contemporary China 18 (60), 391-395, 2009 | 42 | 2009 |
| Finance and rural governance: centralization and local challenges JJ Kennedy Rural Politics in Contemporary China, 101-118, 2016 | 36 | 2016 |
| The price of democracy: Vote buying and village elections in China JJ Kennedy Asian Politics & Policy 2 (4), 617-631, 2010 | 31 | 2010 |
| Voting and values: Grassroots elections in rural and urban China JJ Kennedy, H Nagao, H Liu Politics and Governance 6 (2), 90-102, 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
| Supply and support for grassroots political reform in rural China JJ Kennedy Journal of Chinese Political Science 15, 169-190, 2010 | 19 | 2010 |
| What is the color of a non-revolution: Why the Jasmine Revolution and Arab Spring did not spread to China JJ Kennedy Whitehead J. Dipl. & Int'l Rel. 13, 63, 2012 | 18 | 2012 |
| Election Reform from the Middle and at the Margins JJ Kennedy, D Chen Local governance innovation in China, 154-173, 2014 | 16 | 2014 |
| The rite to vote: Community interactions and grassroots voter participation in China H Nagao, JJ Kennedy Journal of Chinese Political Science 26 (4), 613-630, 2021 | 15 | 2021 |
| Rule by virtue, the mass line model, and cadre–mass relations J Kennedy, S Yaojiang East Asian Development Model, 217-233, 2014 | 10 | 2014 |
| Lost and found: The missing girls in rural China JJ Kennedy, Y Shi Oxford University Press, USA, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
| 选举提名方式与土地管理体制: 村民对村领导行为及其绩效的评价 史耀疆， 任保平， 王生龙， JJ Kennedy 经济研究 9, 2004 | 8 | 2004 |
| 中国农村民主选举中的提名方式及实施绩效分析——对陕西 6 个县 34 个村调查结果的实证分析 史耀疆， 高帆， 任保平 管理世界, 62-70, 2004 | 7 | 2004 |
| Surveys and learning about village elections and rural China: an analysis of a 2005 national village election survey JJ Kennedy, Y Shi Politics and Markets in Rural China, 202-217, 2012 | 6 | 2012 |
