My research interest is investigating information transmission and decision-making, particularly media reporting strategies in both autocracies and democracies, from approaches including game theory and quantitative methods.

Publications 

1. The Making of the Boy Who Cried Wolf: Fake News and Media Skepticism (with Myunghoon Kang; forthcoming in Political Science Research and Methods) 

2. Commitment and Information Problems in Authoritarian Regimes. (with Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; in Research Handbook on Authoritarianism, eds. Natasha Lindstaedt, and Jeroen J. J. Van den Bosch. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (March, 2024))

3. Tell Me the Truth? Dictatorship and the Commitment to Media Freedom (with Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu; published in the Journal of Theoretical Politics 36.1 (2024): 37-63)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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) 

7. 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.

8. 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)  

9. Media with Reputational Concerns: Yes Men or Watchdogs? (published in Political Science Research and Methods 9.2 (2021): 345-364) 

10. 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)

11. 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)

中文發表

1. 非發展與非優惠性金援對國家外債影響之分析：以中國金援為例 （與平思寧合著，發表於台灣政治學刊 27.1 (2023): 1-58）