| Decentralization and Veiled Corruption under China’s “Rule of Mandates” M Birney World development 53, 55-67, 2014 | 220 | 2014 |
| Public opinion and the push to repeal the estate tax M Birney, MJ Graetz, I Shapiro National Tax Journal, 439-461, 2006 | 59 | 2006 |
| The Political Uses of Public Opinion M Birney, I Shapiro, M Graetz Divide and Deal: The Politics of Distribution in Democracies, 298, 2008 | 27 | 2008 |
| Can Local Elections Contribute to Democratic Progress in Authoritarian Regimes?: Exploring the Political Ramifications of China's Village Elections ME Birney Yale University, 2007 | 23 | 2007 |
| Death or Taxes I Shapiro, M Birney The Estate Tax Repeal and American Democracy. New Haven, 2003 | 4 | 2003 |
| Accurately inferring meaning from incomplete and insincere responses to sensitive survey questions in authoritarian regimes M Birney | 2 | 2008 |
| Does civic participation contribute to political engagement? Using fixed effects panel analyses to investigate correlations and causation M Birney annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, 2005 | 2 | 2005 |
| China's Village Elections as a Mechanism for Political Stability Via Bounded Political Responsiveness M Birney London School of Economics & Political Science, 2010 | 1 | 2010 |
| Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948–2008. By Huaiyin Li. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. 424p. $65.00 cloth. M Birney Perspectives on Politics 8 (02), 642-643, 2010 | | 2010 |
| The Political Uses of Public Opinion: Lessons from the Estate Tax Repeal M Birney, I Shapiro, M Graetz The Real World of Democratic Theory, 180-218, 2010 | | 2010 |
| China’s rule of mandates and the centralized authoritarian control of elections M Birney | | 2010 |
| Why Authoritarian Leaders Sometimes Empower the Public in Authoritarian Regimes: Learning from Local Variations Across China M Birney APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper, 2009 | | 2009 |
| Local Determinants of the Enforcement and Defiance of Village Election Laws in China M Birney | | 2008 |
| The impact of new democratic institutions on democratic political engagement: A within-county comparative study of village elections in China M Birney | | 2008 |
