Theme I: China, Global South, and Global Governance

1. In-Group Punishment in International Relations: U.S. Reaction to the Founding of China's AIIB (with Jing Qian and James Raymond Vreeland). Review of International Political Economy, 2025, 32(4), 1073–1099. 

Published Version |  Working Paper | Supplemental Material

2. The Impact of China’s AIIB on the World Bank (with Jing Qian and James Raymond Vreeland). International Organization, 2023, 77(1), 217-237. 

Media Coverage: TIME, PEKINGNOLOGY 

Published Version | Working Paper | Data and Code 

3. The Aid Management System of Emerging Donors: Examples from BRICs Countries (with Ouyang Zhe), in New Development Assistance, Palgrave Publisher, 2020. 

4. The Governance of China’s Foreign Aid System: Evolution and Path Dependence (with Yijia Jing). Public Administration and Development, 2019, Vol. 39(4), 182-192.

5. The Innovation of Multilateral Development Banks: Comparative Evidence between AIIB and ADB (with Yannan Gou and Wanying Li ), Journal of Chinese Political Science, 2018, 3(2).

6. Chinese State-Owned Companies, Misallocation and the Reform Policy. The Chinese Political Science Review,2019, 4(1), 28-51.

Theme II: The Relationships Among the State, Society, and (I)NGOs

1.  A Replication of "Exploring and Explaining Contracting Out: Patterns among the American States" (with Jing Qian and Jiahuan Lu), Public Administration, 2022, 100(4): 1161-1182. 

Data and Code 

2. Does Government Punish Nonprofits for High Administrative Costs in Contracting Decisions? (with Jiahuan Lu). American Review of Public Administration, 2020, 50(3), 286-296.  

3. Does Government Funding Make Nonprofits Administratively Inefficient? Revisiting the Link (with Jiahuan Lu). Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2019, Vol. 48(6) 1143–1161.

4. How Does Government Funding Affect Nonprofits' Program Spending? Evidence from International Development Organizations (with Jiahuan Lu). Public Administration and Development, 2019, 39:69–77. 

5. The Crowding-Out Effect within Government Funding: Implications for Within-Source Diversification (with Jiahuan Lu). Nonprofit Management & Leadership. 2019, 29(4), 611–622. 

6. The Overpaid and Underpaid: A Comparison of Labor Costs in Nonprofit and For-Profit Service Organizations (with Jiahuan Lu). Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019, 12(1), 117-136.

7. To Coerce or to Enable? The Effect of Government Funding on Policy Advocacy in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations (with Jiahuan Lu). The Chinese Political Science Review, 2018, Vol. 3, 411-429.​

Books (Chinese and English)

1. 赵剑治，《国际发展合作：理论、实践与评估》，中国社会科学出版社，2018年。

2. Jianzhi Zhao. International Development Cooperation:Theory, Practice, and Evaluation, World Scientific Publishing, 2023.

Pre-Doctoral Papers (读博前论文)

1. 关系对中国农村收入差距的贡献:一项基于夏普里值的分解研究(与陆铭合作)，《经济学季刊》(leading Chinese economic journal)， 2009, Vol. 9(1).

2. Ming Lu & Jianzhi Zhao, 2009. "The Contribution of Social Networks to Income Inequality in Rural China: A Regression-Based Decomposition and Cross-Regional Comparison," Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. (Revision requested by Social Science Quarterly but dropped by authors due to limitations in data improvements)