Research Projects

My research agenda is centered on developing new theoretical approaches in political science and public administration/policy, applying them to the Asian region, and illuminating what we learn from examining Asian cases.

My research has leveraged differences (e.g., a range of regime types from autocratic China to fully democratic Japan, Korea, and Taiwan) and commonalities (e.g., young democracies with institutional separation of powers) across Asian cases and has integrated area studies with comparative interests and concerns.

Substantively, my research covers a range of areas from the political economy of institutions to comparative regime types, representation, organizational behavior, and party system institutionalization. Methodologically, it analyzes original data with quantitative and experimental methods.

My research has been supported by the Leverhulme Trust and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham, and was also funded by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and the Korea Foundation. Details of my current research and outputs from my research projects are described in each sub-category.