Zhaotian Luo

University of Chicago, Department of Political Science

Assistant Professor

5825 S University Ave

Chicago, IL 60637

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (14)

1.

Democracy and Its Vulnerabilities: Dynamics of Democratic Backsliding

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2022
Zhaotian Luo and Adam Przeworski
University of Chicago, Department of Political Science and New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics
Downloads 3,418 (7,218)
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Democracy, Backsliding, Dynamic

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Leadership Styles and Political Survival of Chinese Communist Party Elites

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 23 Feb 2019
Junyan Jiang and Zhaotian Luo
Columbia University and University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
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Ruling the Ruling Coalition: Information Control and Authoritarian Power-Sharing

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 02 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2022
Zhaotian Luo and Arturas Rozenas
University of Chicago, Department of Political Science and New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics
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Autocracy, Information, Coordination, Information design

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Strategies of Election Rigging: Trade-Offs, Determinants, and Consequences

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 13(1), p. 1-28, 2018
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 20 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 12 May 2018
Zhaotian Luo and Arturas Rozenas
University of Chicago, Department of Political Science and New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics
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election fraud, manipulation, violence, transparency, accountability

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Sustaining Democracy under the Shadow of Force

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Nov 2024
Zhaotian Luo, Adam Przeworski and Hongding Zhu
University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics and University of Chicago
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Lying in Persuasion

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2023
Arturas Rozenas and Zhaotian Luo
New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics and University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
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Lying in Persuasion

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2023
Zhaotian Luo and Arturas Rozenas
University of Chicago, Department of Political Science and New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics
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Persuasion, information acquisition, Lying, Misinformation

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The Election Monitor's Curse

American Journal of Political Science, 62(1), p. 148-160, 2018
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2018
Zhaotian Luo and Arturas Rozenas
University of Chicago, Department of Political Science and New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics
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elections, fraud, violence, monitoring, authoritarianism, time-inconsistency

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Discriminatory Persuasion

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2018
Zhaotian Luo
University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
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Persuasion, Private Information, Specificity-Sensitivity Tradeoff

9.

Theories of Democratic Backsliding

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Nov 2023
University of Padova, Department of Economics and Management, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, The University of Chicago and Columbia University - Department of Political Science
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Democratic backsliding, Formal theory, Constraints on the executive, Electoral manipulation

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(In)excusable Backsliding under Contested Oversight

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 13 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2024
Robert Gulotty and Zhaotian Luo
University of Chicago and University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
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Is There Really a Dictator’s Dilemma? Information and Repression in Autocracy

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Apr 2024
University of Chicago, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
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dictator’s dilemma, information, repression, autocracy, elections

12.

Self-Enforcing Power Dynamics

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 05 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 06 May 2024
Zhaotian Luo
University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
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Power dynamics, Power sharing, Self-enforcing, Commitment

13.

Governing Local Bureaucracy in a Centralized State

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 03 Jan 2025
Tsinghua University, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, Peking University - National School of Development, National School of Development, Peking University and University of Chicago
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Political Stake and Policy Experimentation

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Apr 2024
Shuo Chen, Zhaotian Luo and Tianyang Xi
Fudan University - Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science and National School of Development, Peking University
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