Research
[Research Article] Compensation and the Consolidation of Authoritarian Power: Evidence from China's 2016 PLA Reform (with Victor Shih, UCSD and Keng-chi Chang, UCSD). UCSD 21st Century China Center Research Paper (Submitted)
[Research Article] Power Sharing and Media Freedom in Dictatorships. (with Greg Academia, Academia Sinica and Wen-chin Wu, Academia Sinica). Political Communication 39(2): 202-221. (2022) (Open Access). The 2022 Kaid-Sanders Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award Winner! (Awardee Interview: 2022 Kaid-Sanders Best Article of the Year, Political Communication Report (Fall, 2023), APSA and ICA Political Communication Section/Division.)
[Research Article] Citizen Journalism Reduces the Credibility Deficit of Authoritarian Government in Risk Communication amid COVID-19 Outbreaks. (with Greg Academia, Academia Sinica and Wen-chin Wu, Academia Sinica) PLoS ONE 16(12): e0260961. (2021) (Open Access).
[Webinar] Pro-Democracy Movements in Asia. V-Dem Regional Center East Asia.
[Special Issue Editorship] A Special Issue on Hong Kong’s Anti-ELAB Movement. (with Yuko Kasuya, Keio) Japanese Journal of Political Science 22(4). (2021)
[Editorial Essay] Resisting Autocratization: The Protest-Repression Nexus in Hong Kong’s Anti-ELAB Movement. (with Yuko Kasuya, Keio). Japanese Journal of Political Science 22(4): 193-7. (2021).
[Research Article] Anti-ELAB Movement, National Security Law, and Heterogeneous Institutional Trust in Hong Kong . (with Ming-Jen Lin, NTU and Yi-fan Lin, NTU) Japanese Journal of Political Science 22(4): 287-311. (2021) (Open Access)
[Research Article] What Can Comparative Authoritarianism Tell Us About China under Xi Jinping (and Vice Versa)? (with Wen-chin Wu, Academia Sinica) Issues & Studies 57(4): 2150013. (2021)
[Research Article] Dynamic Career Incentive Versus Policy Rent-Seeking in Institutionalized Authoritarian Regimes: Testing a Long-Run Model of Trade Policy Determination in China . Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 50(S6): 51-68. (2014)
[Research Article] Preferences for Government Concessions amid Protests and Repression: Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong’s Anti-ELAB Movement and National Security Law. (with Daiki Kishishita, Tokyo University of Science and Ming-Jen Lin, NTU). Presented at the 2022 ASSA Annual Meeting, The American Economic Association.
[Research Article] Tell me the Truth? Dictatorship and the Commitment to Media Freedom. (with Greg Academia, Academia Sinica and Wen-chin Wu, Academia Sinica). Journal of Theoretical Politics 36(1): 37-63. (2024).
[Global Dataset] Pandemic Backsliding: Democracy during COVID-19 (PanDem). V-Dem Institute. (Online Dashboard; Policy Briefs: April, 2020, June, 2020, October, 2020, December. 2020, July, 2021).
[Work in Progress] Perceptions of American Eletions in Hong Kong and Taiwan. (with Victoria Hui, Notre Dame and Maggie Shum, Penn State Behrend).
[Work in Progress] On the Same Boat? Hong Kong’s Piblic Attitudes towards Taiwan during the Anti-ELAB Movement. (with Ming-Jen Lin, NTU and Yi-fan Lin, NTU).
[Research Article] "Historical Knowledge and Authoritarian Nostalgia: Evidence from Taiwan." (with Shu-Ting Wu, National Taiwan University) (R&R).
[Research Article] Political Communication of Authoritarian Nostalgia and Redistributive Preferences: An Experimental Investigation. (with Shu-Ting Wu, National Taiwan University).