Publications:
"Institutional Change and Development from a Dynamic Perspective,"
China Economic Journal, Forthcoming, 2025, with Tianyang Xi
"Lying in Persuasion,"
Games and Economic Behavior, Forthcoming, 2025, with Arturas Rozenas
"Is There Really a Dictator's Dilemma? Information and Repression in Autocracy,"
American Journal of Political Science, Forthcoming, 2025, with Scott Gehlbach, Anton Shirikov, and Dmitriy Vorobyev
"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:
"(In)excusable Backsliding under Contested Oversight," with Robert Gulotty (R&R)
"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
"A Relational Theory of Power Alternation," with Zanhui Liu, Yucheng Qiu, and Shuyi Yu
"Relational Contracts and the Theory of Autocracy," with Scott Gehlbach and Spencer Pantoja
"Great Divergence and Great Convergence: A Theory of Power Dynamics and Social Evolution," with Shuyi Yu
"Corrupted Meritocracy: A Model of Bureaucratic Politics," with Shuyi Yu
"Self-Enforcing Power Dynamics"
"Discriminatory Persuasion"
"Political Stake and Policy Experimentation," with Shuo Chen and Tianyang Xi
"One-Party State," with Adam Przeworski
"Institutional Change and Development from a Dynamic Perspective,"
China Economic Journal, Forthcoming, 2025, with Tianyang Xi
"Lying in Persuasion,"
Games and Economic Behavior, Forthcoming, 2025, with Arturas Rozenas
"Is There Really a Dictator's Dilemma? Information and Repression in Autocracy,"
American Journal of Political Science, Forthcoming, 2025, with Scott Gehlbach, Anton Shirikov, and Dmitriy Vorobyev
"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:
"(In)excusable Backsliding under Contested Oversight," with Robert Gulotty (R&R)
"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
"A Relational Theory of Power Alternation," with Zanhui Liu, Yucheng Qiu, and Shuyi Yu
"Relational Contracts and the Theory of Autocracy," with Scott Gehlbach and Spencer Pantoja
"Great Divergence and Great Convergence: A Theory of Power Dynamics and Social Evolution," with Shuyi Yu
"Corrupted Meritocracy: A Model of Bureaucratic Politics," with Shuyi Yu
"Self-Enforcing Power Dynamics"
"Discriminatory Persuasion"
"Political Stake and Policy Experimentation," with Shuo Chen and Tianyang Xi
"One-Party State," with Adam Przeworski
