Publications:

"Theories of Democratic Backsliding,"
Annual Review of Political Science, 67(1), 71-88, 2024, with Edoardo Grillo, Monika Nalepa, and Carlo Prato

"Ruling the Ruling Coalition: Information Control and Authoritarian Power-Sharing,"
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 18(2), 182-213, 2023, with Arturas Rozenas

"Democracy and Its Vulnerabilities: Dynamics of Democratic Backsliding,"
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 18(1), 105-130, 2023, with Adam Przeworski

"Leadership Styles and Survival Strategies of Chinese Communist Party Elites,"
Journal of Politics, 83(2), 125-139, 2021, with Junyan Jiang

"Why are the Fastest Growing Countries Autocracies?,"
Journal of Politics, 81(2), 663-669, 2019, with Adam Przeworski

"Strategies of Election Rigging: Trade-offs, Determinants, and Consequences," 
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 13(1), 1-28, 2018, with Arturas Rozenas

"The Election Monitor's Curse," 
American Journal of Political Science, 62(1), 148-160, 2018, with Arturas Rozenas


Working Papers:

"Is There Really a Dictator's Dilemma? Information and Repression in Autocracy," with Scott Gehlbach, Anton Shirikov, and Dmitriy Vorobyev (R&R)

"Lying in Persuasion," with Arturas Rozenas (R&R)

"(In)excusable Backsliding under Contested Oversight," with Robert Gulotty (under review)

"Political Stake and Policy Experimentation," with Shuo Chen and Tianyang Xi (under review)

"Sustaining Democracy under the Shadow of Force," with Adam Przeworski and Hongding Zhu

"Governing Local Bureaucracy in a Centralized State," with Zanhui Liu, Yucheng Qiu, Tianyang Xi, and Hongding Zhu

"Self-Enforcing Power Dynamics" 

​"Discriminatory Persuasion"