selected academic publications:
wei, wenchi. 2022. municipal structure matters: evidence from government fiscal performance. public administration review 82(1): 160-173.
wei, wenchi, zhiwei zhang, and kaifeng yang. 2022. local institutions and public service outsourcing: managerial professionalism, mayoral strength, and electoral rules. public administration review 82(6): 1095-1123.
wei, wenchi, and j.s. butler. 2021. state fiscal constraints and local responses: evidence from the property tax limit overrides in massachusetts. public administration review 81(3): 399-413.
wei, wenchi. 2022. fiscal slack, rule constraints, and government corruption. public administration review82(5): 850-865.
wei, wenchi, chengwei wang, wenkang zhai, and wenzhao li. 2023. “honor list” and “shame roll”: quasi-experimental evidence of the effect of performance feedback under political control. journal of public administration research and theory 33(1): 122-138.
wei, wenchi, nicolai preovsky, and xing ni. 2023. citizen blame attributions for government fiscal crises: experimental evidence from china. governance. first online. doi.org/10.1111/gove.12849
wei, wenchi, wen xu, and wenzhao li. 2023. patronage, tournament, and political reward: evidence from the model county party secretary in china. governance. first online. doi.org/10.1111/gove.12817
wei, wenchi, and xin chen. 2024. service outsourcing and government fiscal conditions: do market competition, bureaucrat support, and management capacity matter?. american review of public administration. first online.
wei, wenchi, j.s. butler, and edward t. jennings. 2019. the determinants of municipal structures on a political-administrative dimension. american review of public administration 49(2): 189-202.
wei, wenchi. 2021. exploring local government fiscal slack from a political-budgetary-managerial framework. public management review 23(10): 1504-1526.
wei, wenchi. 2021. state fiscal constraint and local overrides: a regression discontinuity design estimation of the fiscal effects. public choice 189(3): 347-373.