ARTICLES

Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Murtazashvili, and Hui Wang. 2020. "Sugarcoating the Bitter Pill: Compensation, Land Governance, and Opposition to Land Expropriation in China." Journal of Peasant Studies 47(6): 1371-1392.

Meina Cai, Jianyong Fan, Chunhui Ye, and Qi Zhang. 2020. "Government Debt, Land Financing, and Distributive Justice in China." Urban Studies.

Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Murtazashvili, and Raufhon Salahodjaev. 2020. "Patience and Climate Change Policy: Global Evidence." Environmental Research 186. 109552.

Meina Cai, Pengfei Liu and Hui Wang. 2020. "Land Commodification and Hukou Policy innovation in China." Journal of Chinese Governance 5(4): 419-438.

Meina Cai, Pengfei Liu and Hui Wang. 2020. "Political Trust, Risk Preference, and Policy Support: A Study of Land-dispossessed Villagers in China." World Development 125. 104687.

Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili, and Jennifer Murtazashvili. 2020. "The Politics of Land Property Regimes." Journal of Institutional Economics 16: 151-167.

Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Murtazashvili, and Raufhon Salahodjaev. 2020. "Individualism and Governance of the Commons." Public Choice 184 (1): 175-195 .

Meina Cai and Xin Sun. 2018. "Institutional Bindingness, Power Structure, and Land Expropriation in China." World Development 109: 172-186.

Meina Cai. 2017. "Revenue, Time Horizon, and Land Allocation in China." Land Use Policy 62: 101-112.

Meina Cai. 2016. "Land for Welfare in China." Land Use Policy 55: 1-12.


BOOK

Colin Harris, Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili, and Jennifer Murtazashvili. 2020. The Origins and Consequences of Property Rights: Austrian, Public Choice, and Institutional Economics Perspectives. Cambridge University Press (Elements series in Austrian Economics).


BOOK CHAPTER

Meina Cai. 2015. ""Flying Land": Institutional Innovation in Land Management in Contemporary China." In Local Government Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance, edited by Jessica C. Teets and William Hurst, 60-83, New York: Routledge.


WORK IN PROGRESS

Book projects:

The Political Origins of Property Rights in Land: Between Anarchy and Predation, with Ilia Murtazashvili, and Jennifer Murtazashvili.

The Social Origins of Sustainability: How Social Capital and Culture Shape Environmental Conservation. with Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Murtazashvili, and Raufhon Salahodjaev.

Article projects:

"Are Individualist Societies More Generous? Global Evidence'' with Gregory Caskey, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Murtazashvili, and Raufhon Salahodjaev. (R&R)

"The Art of Negotiations: The State, Society, and Development of Land Property Rights in China.''