Her research interests include institutional analysis, the transformation of authoritarian regimes, representative politics in China, and NGOs and political reform in China. Some of her works have been published in journals such as Narrative and Analysis: New Institutionalism in Chinese Politics and Twenty-First Century (Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009). As a 2015-2016 Neubauer Collegium Visiting Fellow, her work in progress will concentrate on political bargaining over institutional choice and the causal mechanisms of initial conditions and institutional divergence (working title: Population, Initial Conditions, Institutional Divergence: A Comparative Investigation of China and Russia).