Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles
2024. "Agents of Resistance: Resolve and Repertoires Against Autocratization in Asia." Democratization. 31(3): 513-530. (with Nhu Truong and Maggie Shum)
Introduction to edited special issue.
2024. "Civil Society Collective Action Under Authoritarianism: Divergent Collaborative Equilibriums for Political Reform in Malaysia and Singapore." Democratization. 31(3): 551-574. (with Syazwi bin Rahmad)
2022. "What are We Voting For? Opposition Alliance Joint Campaigns in Electoral Autocracies." Party Politics. 28(5): 954-967.
2021. "Online Repression and Self-Censorship: Evidence from Southeast Asia." Government and Opposition. 56(1): 141-162.
2020. "Urban versus Rural Voters in Malaysia: More Similarities than Differences." Contemporary Southeast Asia. 42(1): 28-57.
2019. "Committed or Conditional Democrats? Opposition Dynamics in Electoral Autocracies." American Journal of Political Science. 63(4): 948-963. (with Jennifer Gandhi)
2019. "Language Politics, Education, and Ethnic Integration: The Pluralist Dilemma in Singapore." Politics, Groups, and Identities. 7(1): 89-108. (with Kai Ostwald and Dimitar Gueorguiev)
2018. "Electoral Manipulation, Opposition Power, and Institutional Change: Contesting for Electoral Reform in Singapore, Malaysia, and Cambodia." Electoral Studies. 54(2018): 159-171.Â
2016. "Opposition Coordination in Singapore's 2015 General Elections." The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs. 105(2): 185-194.
2015. "Complementary Institutions in Authoritarian Regimes: The Everyday Politics of Constituency Service in Singapore." Journal of East Asian Studies. 15(3): 361-390.
Winner, Association for Asian Studies Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Studies Group John A. Lent Prize for best conference paper presented in 2014.
Winner, Association for Asian Studies Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Studies Group Ronald Provencher Award for best graduate student paper proposal in 2014.
Assigned in undergraduate syllabi at the University of Sydney, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, and Singapore Management University.
2014. (with Mou Hui Tim) "Singapore's 2011 General Elections and Beyond: Beating the PAP at their Own Game." Asian Survey. 54(4): 749-772.
Book Chapters
2024. "Unequal Political Representation in the Federation of Malaysia: Singapore's Entry and Exit from 1963-1965." in Amy Liu and Joel Selway (eds.) State Institutions, Civic Associations, and Identity Demands: Regional Movements in Greater Southeast Asia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.
2021. "The Progress Singapore Party in GE2020: Its History, Organization, Campaign, and Performance in Comparative Perspective." in Kevin Tan and Terence Lee (eds.) Voting in a Time of Change: Singapore's 2020 General Election. Singapore: Ethos Books.
2019. "'10 Years Under Pakatan is Better Than 50 Years Under UMNO/BN': Pre-Electoral Conflict and Campaign Rhetoric in Selangor" in Edmund Terence Gomez and Nawab Mohamed Osman (eds.), Malaysia's 14th General Election and UMNO's Fall: Intra-Elite Feuding in the Pursuit of Power. Routledge.