Research
My research interest is investigating information transmission and decision-making, particularly about media reporting strategies in both autocracies and democracies, from approaches including game theory and quantitative methods.
Publications
Tell Me the Truth? Dictatorship and the Commitment to Media Freedom (with Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; forthcoming in the Journal of Theoretical Politics)
Politics Matters for Individual Attitudes toward Vaccine Donation: Cross-national Evidence from the United States and Taiwan (with Yuan Hsiao, Fang-Yu Lin, and Ching-Hsing Wang; published in Globalization and Health 19 (2023): 40)
WHO Approves? Relative Trust, the WHO, and China’s COVID-19 Vaccines (with Hans H. Tung, Chien-Hui Wu, and Wen-Chin Wu; published in the Review of International Organizations 18 (2023): 499-521)
Experts or Politicians? Citizen Responses to Vaccine Endorsements across 5 OECD Countries (with Joan Barcelo, Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; published in Public Opinion Quarterly 87.1 (2023): 142-155)
Power Sharing and Media Freedom under Dictatorships (with Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; published in Political Communication 39.2 (2022): 202-221)
Winner of the 2022 Kaid-Sanders Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award, Political Communication Division, International Communication Association.
Vaccine Nationalism Among the Public: A Cross-country Experimental Evidence of Own-country Bias towards COVID-19 Vaccination (with Joan Barcelo, Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; published in Social Science & Medicine 310 (2022): 115278)
Media with Reputational Concerns: Yes Men or Watchdogs? (published in Political Science Research and Methods 9.2 (2021): 345-364)
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; published in PLoS ONE 16.12 (2021): e0260961)
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)