| State-led urbanization in China: Skyscrapers, land revenue and “concentrated villages” LH Ong The China Quarterly 217, 162-179, 2014 | 312 | 2014 |
| Fiscal federalism and soft budget constraints: The case of China LH Ong International Political Science Review 33 (4), 455-474, 2012 | 101 | 2012 |
| Social unrest in China C Göbel, LH Ong Long Briefing, Europe China Research and Academic Network (ECRAN), 2012 | 98 | 2012 |
| Between developmental and clientelist states: Local state-business relationships in China LH Ong Comparative Politics 44 (2), 191-209, 2012 | 95 | 2012 |
| “Thugs-for-Hire”: Subcontracting of state coercion and state capacity in China LH Ong Perspectives on Politics 16 (3), 680-695, 2018 | 91 | 2018 |
| Thugs and outsourcing of state repression in China LH Ong The China Journal 80 (1), 94-110, 2018 | 90 | 2018 |
| The political economy of township government debt, township enterprises and rural financial institutions in China L Ong The China Quarterly 186, 377-400, 2006 | 76 | 2006 |
| Prosper or perish: Credit and fiscal systems in rural China LH Ong Cornell University Press, 2012 | 72 | 2012 |
| Social unrest in China LH Ong, C Goebel China and the EU in Context. Insights for Business and Investors, 2014 | 51 | 2014 |
| What Drives People to Protest in an Authoritarian Country? Resources and Rewards vs Risks of Protests in Urban and Rural China LHOD Han Political Studies 67 (1), 2019 | 50 | 2019 |
| The Apparent “Paradox” in China's Climate Policies LH Ong Asian Survey 52 (6), 1138-1160, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
| Outsourcing repression: everyday state power in contemporary China LH Ong Oxford University Press, 2022 | 37 | 2022 |
| “Land grabbing” in an autocracy and a multi-party democracy: China and India compared LH Ong Journal of Contemporary Asia 50 (3), 361-379, 2020 | 25 | 2020 |
| Reports of social unrest: basic characteristics, trends and patterns, 2003–12 LH Ong Handbook of the Politics of China, 345-360, 2015 | 18 | 2015 |
| Paving the road to a socialist new countryside: China's rural tax and fee reform C Göbel Politics and markets in rural China, 155-171, 2012 | 18 | 2012 |
| 'Thugs-for-Hire': State Coercion and'Everyday Repression'in China LH Ong Available at SSRN 2609999, 2015 | 17 | 2015 |
| The communist party and financial institutions: Institutional design of China's post-reform rural credit cooperatives L Ong Pacific Affairs, 251-278, 2009 | 17 | 2009 |
| Engaging Huangniu (brokers): Commodification of State-Society Bargaining in China LH Ong Journal of Contemporary China 28 (116), 293-307, 2019 | 15 | 2019 |
| Greasing the wheels of development: Rural credit in China LH Ong Politics and markets in rural China, 48-68, 2012 | 13 | 2012 |
| Multiple Principals and Collective Action: China's Rural Credit Cooperatives and Poor Households' Access to Credit L Ong Journal of East Asian Studies 6 (2), 177-204, 2006 | 9 | 2006 |
