Professor
jlu@ruc.edu.cnSchool of International Studies, Renmin University of China
Associate Dean, 2021 to present
Executive Director of the Center for Data Science, 2020 to present
Ye Chenhai Chair Professor of Political Science, 2019 to present
School of Public Affairs, American University
Associate Professor (with tenure), 2015 to 2019
Assistant Professor, 2009 to 2015
Ph.D., Political Science, 2009, Duke University
M.A., Political Science, 2006, Duke University
M.A., International Relations, 2002, Tsinghua University
B.E., Environmental Engineering, 1999, Tsinghua University
Chinese Politics
Political Behavior & Psychology
Political Economy of Institutions and Institutional Change
East Asian Politics
Political Methodology
Understandings of Democracy: Origins and Consequences Beyond Western Democracies, with Yun-han Chu (New York, NY: Oxford University Press), 2022, with Yun-han Chu
Varieties of Governance: Migration and Institutional Change in Chinese Villages (New York, NY: Oxford University Press), 2015
“Trading Democracy for Governance,” with Yun-han Chu, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2021, pp. 115-130
“Political Culture of East Asia,” Oxford Research Encyclopedias of Politics, March 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1973
“Revisiting the Eastonian Framework on Political Support: Assessing Different Measures of Regime Support in Mainland China,” with Bruce Dickson, Comparative Politics, Vol. 52, No. 4, 2020, pp. 671-701
“Self-Reflections in America’s Political Science and Implications for the Development in China’s Political Science,” Chinese Political Science, No. 3, 2020, pp. 18-28 (in Chinese)
“Revisiting Political Wariness in China’s Public Opinion Surveys: Experimental Evidence on Responses to Politically Sensitive Questions,” with Xuchuan Lei, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 26, No. 104, 2017, pp. 213-232
“The Image of China in the West: How the Public in the U.S., Latin America, and East Asia Sees an Emerging China,” with John Aldrich, European Review, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2015, pp. 227-241
“How Do Americans View the Rising China?” with John Aldrich and Kang Liu, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 24, No. 92, 2015, pp. 203-221
“The Battle of Ideas and Discourses before Democratic Transition: Different Conceptions of Democracy in Authoritarian China,” with Tianjian Shi, International Political Science Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2015, pp. 20-41
Introduction to Political Science (in Chinese)
Introduction to Comparative Studies on Political Institutions (in Chinese)
Dynamics of Political Change (in English)
Communism and Capitalism in East Asia (in English)
Introduction to Political Research (in English)
Chinese Politics (in English)
Core Seminar for Comparative Politics (in Chinese)
Political Institutions in Comparative Perspective (in English)
Political Analysis (in Chinese & English)
Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Political Science (in English)
Advanced Quantitative Methods (in English)
Programming and Data Analysis in Political Science (in Chinese)