Research
My research interest is investigating information transmission and political decision-making, particularly about media reporting strategies in both autocracies and democracies, from approaches including game theory and quantitative methods.
Publications
Media with Reputational Concerns: Yes Men or Watchdogs? (forthcoming in Political Science Research and Methods)
Voluntary Adoption of Social Welfare-enhancing Behavior: Mask-wearing in Spain during the COVID-19 Outbreak (with Joan Barcelo; published in PLoS ONE 15.12 (2020): e0242764)
Current Research
--Information Problem in Authoritarian Regimes
Tell Me the Truth? Dictatorship and the Commitment to Media Freedom (with Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; under review)
Power-Sharing and Media Freedom under Dictatorships (with Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; under review)
Citizen Journalism and Credibility of Authoritarian Government in Risk Communication Regarding the 2020 COVID-19 Outbreak: A Survey Experiment (with Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; NYUAD Division of Social Science Working Paper No. 0040; under review)
Vague Red Line and Self-censorship: Theory and Experiment (with Rebecca B. Morton, Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu)
Leaders and Their Specialized Associates: Information Problem in Small Group Decision-Making
Manipulating Economic News in Authoritarian Regime: A Quasi-experiment (with Wei-Hao Huang and Hsuan-Yu Lin)
--Information Problem in Democratic Regimes
Tradable Reputation and Media Selection
Partisan Incumbency Disadvantage: A Revised Empirical Strategy to Identify It (with Selina Hofstetter; under review)
Why Do Popular Incumbents Not Welcome High Media Precision? (with Myunghoon Kang; under review)
--East Asian Politics and others
Information, Misinformation, and Health-Preventive Behavior (with Joan Barcelo)
Nationalism and Party Vote Choice in the New Democracy: The Case of Taiwan (with Fang-Yu Chen and Yuan Hsiao; winner of S.C. Lee Best Paper Award, Michigan State University)
Whodunit and Whydunit?: Analyzing Taiwanese Legislators' Roll-Call Voting Behavior (with Wei-Hao Huang)