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).
[Research Article][Research Article] When Dictator's Concessions Backfire: Information Cascade, Protest Mobilization, and Authoritarian Survival (with Daiki Kishishita, Tokyo University of Science, and Yuki Takagi, University of Tokyo). Comparative Institutions and Regimes (CIR) Seminar, Dept. of Political Science, University of Oslo. January 24, 2025. (To be submitted).