Books:
lThe Day After: Gains, Losses, and Lessons of New Democracies. (in Chinese) Hongkong Chinese University Press, 2023.
The Art of the Possible: 30 Lectures on Comparative Politics. (in Chinese) Guangxi Normal University Press, 2022.
The Stage of Ideas. (in Chinese) Zhejiang University Press, 2013 (Collection of political columns)
Details of Democracy: Essays on Contemporary American Politics, (in Chinese) Shanghai Sanlian Press, 2009 (Collection of political columns on American politics)
Published Papers and Book Chapters:
Yu Liu, Yu-Sung Su and Meng Zhu, “From Fear to Love: Dissecting Political Trust in China.” Journal of Chinese Political Science, 2025 (已接受，等待排版)
Yu Liu, Yu-Sung Su and Wenquan Wu. “How modernization theory has stumbled in China: A political interception perspective.” Democratization, 30(2), 302–324, 2023
Yu Liu, Yu-Sung Su and Wenquan Wu, “How modernization theory has stumbled in China: A political interception perspective,” Democratization, 2023, 20(2): 302-324
Yu Liu, “Two concepts of rights and the divergence of French and American revolutions,” (in Chinese) Journal of Renmin University of China, Vol 1. 2022
Yu Liu, “One and many ‘us’es,” (in Chinese), Preface to Fukuyama’s Identity (Chinese edition), Zhongyi Press, 2021.
Yu Liu, “Developments and setbacks of the Third-Wave democratization.” (in Chinese) Explorations and Debates, No.10, 2020
Yu Liu, “Why are new democracies so vulnerable: the perspective of economic policies.” (in Chinese) Explorations and Debates, No.8. 2019.
Yu Liu, “Crises and resilience of contemporary liberal democracies,” (in Chinese) Explorations and Debates, No.7, 2018.
Yu Liu, “Post-modernization and nostalgia: American political cultural conflicts behind the Trump phenomenon.” (in Chinese) American Studies, No.6, 2018
Yu Liu, “Lessons of new democracies for China”, Journal of Chinese Political Science, May 2017
Yu Liu, “The rise and fall of political violence in democratic transition: Indonesia as a case” (in Chinese), Xue Hai, 2017 Vol.2.
Yu Liu, “Is there a tradeoff between democratization and stability?”, Social Science Quarterly, Feb. 2017
Yu Liu, “Does civil society facilitate democratic consolidation?” （in Chinese），Open Times, 2017 Vol.1.
Yu Liu, “How to save the world?” Preface to Paul Collier’s Wars, Guns, and Votes (Chinese edition), Nanjing University Press, 2017
Yu Liu, “Democracy and populism: On American populism” (in Chinese), Exploration and Debate, 2016 Vol.10.
Yu Liu, “The State with a surname,” Journal of Chinese Governance, 2016 1(3).
Yu Liu, “Two models of democracy and democratic consolidation in the Third Wave,” (in Chinese), Open Times, 2016 Vol.5
Yu Liu, “Changes in state capacity after democratization: A typological analysis of the Third Wave Countries, 1974-2014,” (in Chinese), Xue Hai, 2016 Vol.2.
Yu Liu, “Has democratization harmed economic freedom?” (in Chinese), Renmin University Xuebao, 2015 Vol.5
Yu Liu, “Has the Third Wave democratization failed?” (in Chinese), New Political Economic Review, 2015 Vol.5
Yu Liu, “How to get to Denmark?” Preface to Francis Fukuyama’s Political Development and Political Decay (Chinese edition), Guangxi Shida Press, 2015
Yu Liu, “The end of reform in China.” (with the pseudoname Youwei), Foreign Affairs, 2015 94(3).
Yu Liu, “Between love and fear: the logic of totalitarian rule under Stalin” (in Chinese), Du Shu, 2015 Vol 1.
Yu Liu, “Bring the state back in,” Preface to Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order (Chinese edition), Guangxi Shida Press, 2014.
Yu Liu, “The long ending of history,” Preface to Francis Fukuyama’s End of History and the Last Man (Chinese edition), Guangxi Shida Press, 2014.
Yu Liu, “What are we talking about when we talk about culture?” (in Chinese), Du Shu, 2013 Vol.9.
Yu Liu, “In the name of goodness: The moral mobilization in Maoist era,” (in Chinese), New History Studies, 2013 Vol.7
Yu Liu, “Why China will democratize,” (first author, with Dingding Chen), Washington Quarterly, 2012 35(1).
Yu Liu, “Can economic development lead to democracy: The rise, decline and revival of the Modernization Theory,” (in Chinese), Renmin University Xuebao, 2011 Vol.4.
Yu Liu, “Idealism or realism: An analysis of the motives of political participation under Mao," (in Chinese), Xue Hai, 2010 Vol.5.
Yu Liu, “The Maoist discourses and the mobilization of emotions in revolutionary China,” in Modern China, 2010 36(3)
Yu Liu, “Why did it go so high: The political mobilization of the agricultural collectivization in China,” in China Quarterly. 2006 Vol.187
Working Papers:
Yu Liu, Wenquan Wu, Meng Zhu and Donald Lien, “Concepts of democracy and democratic decline in the 21st century.” (under review)
Yu Liu, Yu-sung Su and Meng Zhu, “From fear to trust: Dissecting political trust in contemporary China.” (under review)
Yu Liu, Kaiping Zhang, Meng Zhu and Wenquan Wu, “The power of the ‘big brothers,’: political leadership and regime moves in authoritarian states,” (under review)
Yu Liu and Wenquan Wu, “Can critical citizens be too critical?” (writing stage)
Yu Liu, “Cultural distance and the shocks of immigration,” (writing stage)
Yu Liu and Meng Zhu, “Knowledge about new democracies and democratic aspirations in China,” (research stage)
Book Reviews (selected):
“Evilness divided by a million times”, Tengxun Sixianghui, 2016.11.11 (Review of Robert Lifton’s The Nazi Doctors)
“When the ship turned around”, Southern Weekend, 2015.11.26 (Review of Qin Hui’s Out of the Monarchy)
“Democracy and its limits,” Shanghai Book Review, 2015.6.27 (Review of Michael Mann’s Dark Side of Democracy.)
“Not all crows are black,” New York Times Book Review (the Chinese Online Edition), 2014.6.30 (Review of Bueno de Mesquita’s The Dictator’s Handbook)
“The temptation of responsibility,” Beida Business Review, 2013 Vol.12. (Review of Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals and Society)
“The sculpture of bitterness”, New Century, 2013 Vol.38. (Review of Guo Yuhua’s Narratives of the Sufferers)
2023-2025, Grant from Funding for Social Science and Humanities by Tsinghua University, Project title: “How do different concepts of democracy form?”
2020-2025, Grant from Chinese National Social Science Foundation, “How concepts of democracy affect democratic consolidation?”
2022, The Art of the Possible: 30 Lectures on Comparative Politics selected as “Book of the Year” by Douban website and One-way Street (Danxiangjie) bookstore, also as one of “the most popular books on political science of the year” by the wechat account “Political Science Scholars” (zhengzhi xueren)
2017-2020, Named “Kaifeng Scholar” by the Kaifeng Research Institute at Tsinghua University.
2016-2018, Grant from Funding for Social Science and Humanities by Tsinghua University, “How do institutions affect culture?”
2013-2016, Grant from Funding for Humanities and Social Science by the Ministry of Education, “Economic and social performance after democratization in developing states.”
2013-2014, Funding for Returnees from Overseas (Ministry of Education), "Economic freedom after democratization."
2013.10, Fellow of “Future Leader Visiting Program”, invited by the Foreign Ministry of France.
2011.7-8, Fellow of the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program at the Center for Development, Democracy and Rule of Law of Stanford University.
2011, Chosen as the “Youth Leader of the Year” by the Southern People Weekly.
2011-2016, Funded by “Program for Supporting Talent in Basic Research” of Tsinghua University.
2009, Details of Democracy selected as Book of the Year by the Southern Weekend.
2006-2007, An Wang Post-doc Fellowship, Fairbank Center, Harvard University
