Research

Research Papers and Manuscripts

“Withstanding the Plague: Institutional Resilience of the East Asian Welfare State.” (co-authored with Suegiin Soon and Shih-Jiunn Shi), Social Policy & Administration, Vol. 55, pp. 374– 387, February 2021. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12713 


“Policy Experimentation and Test Sites: The Reform of China’s Public Hospital System.” Mainland China Studies, Vol. 62, No. 1, March 2019. (TSSCI) https://doi.org/10.30389/MCS.201903_62(1).0002 

“Bureaucratic Differences in Ministry Newspapers: China’s Integration of Three Health Insurance Schemes.” (co-authored with Ming-Yuan Hsieh), Prospect Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 4, Oct 2016, pp. 99-150. (TSSCI) AL:15601696-201610-201612060015-201612060015-99-150 

“Scapegoating: A Text-Mining Study on Diversionary Collective Actions in Authoritarian China.” International Symposium “Political and Economic Factors Shaping Latin America in the Next Decade -Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Comparison with East Asia,” Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, March 08, 2019. 

“Air Quality Governance in China: Authoritarian Environmentalism and the Coal-to-Gas Switch Campaign.” (Co-authored with Chih-sung Teng, Chin-en Wu, and Kuan-chen Lee), in Kuei-Tien Chou, Koichi Hasegawa, Dowan Ku and Shu-Fen Kao eds., Air Pollution Governance in East Asia, Routledge, 2021. 

“Air Pollution and Political Support in China: Evidence from the Wave 4 Asian Barometer Survey.” (co-authored with Chinen Wu and Chih-sung Teng), A conference on The New Political Landscape in East Asia, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 2017. 


“China’s Bureaucracy in the Open-Door Legislation: the Labor Contract Law in Focus.” Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 23, No. 2, June 2018, pp. 217-234. (SSCI) 

*Award for Best Graduate Student Paper in the 23rd Annual Meeting (in 2010) of the Association of Chinese Political Studies. 

“Exit and Voice: Mainland China’s Talent Policy and Taiwan’s Weak Response during the Ma Administration.” (co-authored with Hans H. Tung), Modern China Studies, Vol. 26, Issue 1, pp. 80-103, 2019. 

“Policy Experimentation and China's Labor Market Regulation: The Case of the Labor Contract Law,” (co-authored with Han-pu Tung), in Baogang Guo and Dennis Hickey (eds.), Toward Better Governance in China: an Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform. Lexington Books, 2010. 

“Mixed Methods and China Studies: The Use of Diverse Case Study and Quantitative Content Analysis in the Same Project.” Mainland China Studies, Vol. 58, No. 2, June 2015. (TSSCI) 

“The Governance of Labor Relations,” in Szue-chin Philip Hsu (ed.), The Development and Changes of Mainland China since the 18th Party Congress. Mainland Affairs Council, July 2019. ISBN 978-986-05-9618-2. 

“Chinese Government’s Reaction to Labor Protests: Evidence from an Integrated Dataset.” (co-authored with Manfred Elfstrom and Chih-sung Teng), 2018 APSA, Boston, MA, August 31, 2018. 


“Popularized Internet Regulation in Authoritarian Regimes: The Online “Informing” System in Mainland China.” (Co-authored with Chia-wen Huang), Chinese Political Science Review, Vol.71, June 2021, pp. 99-129. (TSSCI). 

“Nominally Democratic Institutions in Authoritarian Regimes: The Impact of Political Participation on the Political Attitudes of Chinese People.” (co-authored with Ming-Yuan Hsieh), Chinese Political Science Review, Vol. 66, Dec 2018, pp. 1-28. (TSSCI) 


“How do Alliances Trade Arms? Political Alliance Networks and Global Arms Transfers.” (co-authored with Chih-Sung Teng and Hans H. Tung), PLoS ONE 18(3): e0282456, 2023. (SCI) (Link to Data)

“Adaptive Non-Negative Geographically Weighted Regression for Population Density Estimation Based on Nighttime Light.” (co-authored with Hone-Jay Chu and Chen-Han Yang), ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2019. (SCI) 

“ “West Coast Effect” and Strategic Voting? Spatial Analysis of the 2018 Taipei City Mayoral Election.” (co-authored with Chih-sung Teng), Journal of Electoral Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2, November 2020. (TSSCI) 


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