Lu Jie

Professor

jlu@ruc.edu.cn

Biography
Research Interest
Publications
Teaching

Academic Positions

School 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

Education

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

Research Interest

Chinese Politics

Political Behavior & Psychology

Political Economy of Institutions and Institutional Change

East Asian Politics

Political Methodology

Books

Research Design and Methods for Political Science (Beijing: Renmin University of China Press), 2026

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

Articles (peer-reviewed, since 2022)

“Theorizing Chinese Modernization for Political Science: A Four-Dimensional Framework,” Southeast Academic Research, Vol. 4, 2026, pp. 23-34 (in Chinese)

“Incorporate Temporality Dynamically: Methodological Implications and Challenges of Historical Political Science,” Teaching and Research, Vol. 58, No. 4, 2024, pp. 101-112 (in Chinese)

“Applications of Statistical Models in Studies on the Chinese Communist Party: Status Quo, Future, and Limitations,” Journal of the CCP History and Theories, Vol. 14, 2024, pp. 148-162 (in Chinese)

“Ecological Structure, Origins, and Consequences of Hierarchical Governmental Trust: A Configurational Approach,” with Tianxiang Liu, Journal of Peking University (Philosophy Social Sciences), Vol. 59, No. 5, 2022, pp. 107-11 (in Chinese)

“Features of East Asian Political Culture: Findings and Disagreements in Existing Scholarship and Possible Solutions,” with Tianxiang Liu, Chinese Political Science, Vol. 13, 2022, pp. 3-20 (in Chinese)

Undergraduate courses

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)

Postgraduate courses

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)