Curriculum Vitae
CHEN Fang-Yu
Soochow University, Taiwan
Last Update: 2/2024
Profile
Dedicated researcher of politics with interests in comparative authoritarian politics, public opinion and political behavior, East Asian politics, and US-China-Taiwan Relations. Experienced editor and writer of two popular writing blogs of political science and international relations. Active columnist and podcast host. Based in Taipei, Taiwan.
Academic Position
‧Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Soochow University, Taiwan. 8/2021-
‧Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. 5/2021-8/2021
‧Visiting Research Fellow, Global Taiwan Institute, Washington, D.C. 8/2019-10/2019
‧Visiting Research Associate, Sigur Center for Asian Studies at Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University 9/2016-3/2017
Education
‧Ph.D. Political Science, Michigan State University. 2020
Dissertation: Ruling Party Institutionalization in Autocracies
Committee: Eric C.C. Chang, Jeff Conroy-Krutz, Erica Frantz, Christian Houle
‧M.A Political Science, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei. 2010–2012
Thesis: “On ‘Social Economy’ and its Practice: Principles of Cooperatives and the Feasibility in Hualien.”
‧B.A. Diplomacy, summa cum laude, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei. 2005–2009
Research Interests
‧Comparative politics, democratization, political party, political behaviors , authoritarian politics, East Asia
See the list for ongoing projects or Research Gate
Refereed Articles
Forthcoming. "Strategic Ambiguity, Strategic Clarity, and Dual Clarity." Foreign Policy Analysis. With Austin Horng-En Wang, Charles K.S. Wu, and Yao-Yuan Yeh.
2023. "Public Support for Self-Defence in Taiwan: The Current State of Research." Taiwan Politics. With Charles K.S. Wu and Yao-Yuan Yeh.
Forthcoming. "The Multiverse of Taiwan's Future: Reconsidering the Independence-Unification (Tondu) Attitudes." Political Studies Review. With Austin Horng-En Wang, Charles K.S. Wu, and Yao-Yuan Yeh.
2023. "Mediation Analysis of Conspiratorial Thinking and Anti-Expert Sentiments on Vaccine Willingness." Health Psychology, 42(4), 235–246. With Blackburn et al. and the COVIDiSTRESS II Consortium.
Forthcoming. “Why Does Taiwan Identity Decline?” Journal of Asian and African Studies. With Austin Horng-En Wang, Yao-Yuan Yeh, and Charles K.S. Wu
2023. "High-level Visit and National Security Policy: Evidence from A Quasi-Experiment in Taiwan." International Interactions 49(1): 132-146. With Austin Horng-En Wang, Charles K.S. Wu, and Yao-Yuan Yeh.
Forthcoming. "Media Literacy and Partisan Convergence across Social Network Sites." The Social Science Journal. With Austin Horng-En Wang, Charles K.S. Wu, and Yao-Yuan Yeh.
2022. "COVIDiSTRESS Diverse Dataset on Psychological and Behavioral Outcomes One Year Into the COVID-19 Pandemic." Scientific Data (2022) 9, 331. With Angélique M. Blackburn, Sara Vestergren, & the COVIDiSTRESS II Consortium.
2024. "Public Support for the Use of Force in Non-Western and Non-Major Powers (NWNM): The Case of a China-Taiwan War." International Political Science Review 45(1):106-122. With Austin Horng-En Wang, , Yao-Yuan Yeh, and Charles K.S. Wu. (first view online in Sep 2022)
2022. "Security Studies towards Individuals’ Attitude: Military Experience and Support for Self-Defense in Taiwan." Issues and Studies 61(3)：145-172.
（安全研究的個體化：個人當兵經驗如何影響台灣防衛決心） With Charles K.S. Wu, Austin Horng-En Wang, and Yao-Yuan Yeh.2021. “Sacrifice for the Mandate of Heaven? Regression Discontinuity of Death Penalty Execution in Taiwan.” The Social Science Journal, forthcoming. With Austin Horng-En Wang, Yuan-Ning Chu, and Ming-Jui Yeh.
2021. “Is Trading with China Different? Self-Interest, National Pride, and Trade Preferences.” Journal of East Asian Studies 21(1): 97-115. With Wei-ting Yen and Kristine Kay.
2021. “Prospects for US-Taiwan-China Relations under the Biden Administration.” American Journal of Chinese Studies 28(501): 16-24. With Austin Horng-En Wang, Charles K.S. Wu, and Yao-Yuan Yeh.
2021. “The Non-Consensus 1992 Consensus.” Asian Politics & Policy 13(2): 212-227. With Austin Horng-En Wang, Charles K.S. Wu, and Yao-Yuan Yeh.
2021. "Stress and Worry in the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic: relationships to trust and compliance with preventive measures across 48 countries in the COVIDiSTRESS global survey." Royal Society Open Science 8( 2). Andreas Lieberoth et al.
2020. “COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey Dataset on Psychological and Behavioural Consequences of the COVID-19 Outbreak.” Scientific Data, 2020. With COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey Consortium.
2019. "Extreme Candidates as the Beneficent Spoiler? Range Effect in the Plurality Voting System." Political Research Quarterly 72(2):278-292. With Austin Wang. （菜市場政治學版本）
2017 "Who Supports The Sunflower Movement? An Examination of Nationalist Sentiments." With Wei-Ting Yen. Journal of Asian and African Studies 52(8): 1193-1212. (Full text and Appendix)
2017 “Establishing Bilateral Trade Agreement without Mutual Diplomatic Relations: The Case of the Republic of China on Taiwan,” with Yao-Yuan Yeh. Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies 2017(228).
2012. “On the Need of Social Economy and Feasibility of Cooperatives.” Cooperative Economy, 115: 36-47 (in Chinese)
〈論社會經濟的需要性以及合作經濟可行性〉，《合作經濟》，第115期，2012年12月，頁36-47。摘要及全文
2009. “The Political Mobility of Chinese Economic Technocrats since 1978: characteristics and trends.” Chinese Political Science Review, 47: 59-104. With Chien-Wen Kou (in Chinese)
〈1978年以後中共財經高官的仕途流動：特徵與趨勢〉，《政治學報》，第47期，2009年6月，頁59-103 ，合著：寇健文。摘要及全文
Books
2022. Who Governs Ep2: The Ark of Democracy. Co-editor and Co-authored. Taipei: Rive Gauche (in Chinese).
2021. Why and How the US Matters? Co-editor and Co-authored. Taipei: Linking Books (in Chinese).
2019. Translation: Taiwan’s China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy.(in Chinese). Taipei: Business Weekly Publication. By Syaru Shirley Lin. 2016. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
2018. Who Governs? Taiwan’s Political Science and Elections. Co-editor and Co-authored. Taipei: Rive Gauche (in Chinese).
Book Chapters
2023. "Democratization." in Alexander C. Tan and Dennis F. Quilala ed, Encyclopedia of Asian Politics, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar. pp75-81.
2023. "COVID-19 Pandemic and Cross-Strait Relations." in Chia-hung Tsai and Yao-Yuan Yeh eds. Public Opinion, Policy Responses, and Party Politics under the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining Taiwan and Its Strategic Neighbors. Lexington Books. with Austin Horng-En Wang, Charles K.S. Wu, and Yao-Yuan Yeh.
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
‧Democracy and Civil Society Research Fellowship, Global Taiwan Institute. 2019
‧University Fellowship, Taiwanese-American Foundation of Boston. 2017
‧Kenneth E. and Marie J. Corey Research Enrichment Fund Award, MSU. 2016
‧Award Winner of S.C. Lee Best Paper Competition, MSU. 2015-2016, 2018, and 2019
‧College of Social Science Research Scholars Fellowship, MSU. 2013-2015
‧Government Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan. 2012-2015
‧Diplomatic Scholarship, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan. 2008
Teaching Experience
‧Teaching Assistant, PLS201 Political Methods, By Dr. Eric Juenke, Spring 2016
‧Teaching Assistant, Regression Analysis II, 7/2016-8/2016
By Dr. Brian Pollins, Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, ICPSR, Ann Arbor.
Invited Talks
‧ Unpacking 2020 Taiwan Election Results. Dialogue China, 2/7/2020
‧ Taiwan’s Party Politics and Foreign Policy Positions. Global Taiwan Institute, 11/25/2019
‧ Taiwan’s Demographic Challenges and Lessons from Japan and South Korea. Global Taiwan Institute, 10/9/2019
‧ The Tondu Question (independence-unification) and Taiwan’s Local Election. Sigur Center of Asian Studies at Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 11/27/2018
‧ Taiwan’s Path To Marriage Equality. Sigur Center, GWU, 4/20/2017
‧ Reflections on the Sunflower Movement after Three Years. Global Taiwan Institute, 3/29/2017
‧ The Dynamics of the “One-China Policy” and the Status Quo: Perspectives from Taiwan.
Sigur Center, GWU, 2/28/2017
‧ The State of NGOs in China Today. Brookings Institute, 12/6/2016
Selective Conference Presentations
2020. “Media Literacy and the Political Convergence across Social Media Sites,” paper presented at 2020 Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association (APSA), online meeting, Sep. 12th, With Austin Horng-En Wang, Charles K.S. Wu, and Yao-Yuan Yeh.
2019. “Public Support for the Use of Force in Weak States,” paper presented at 2019 Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Washington, DC, Aug. 28th. With Charles K.S. Wu, Yao-Yuan Yeh, and Austin Horng-En Wang.
2018. “Partisanship, Information Correction, and Opinion Change in Democratic Regimes,” paper presented at 2018 Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, Apr. 5th. With Yao-Yuan Yeh.
2017. “Why Do Some Authoritarian Regimes Institutionalize the Ruling Party? Taiwan and South Korea in Comparison,” paper presented at 2017 Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, Apr. 8th.
2016. “How to Be(come) a Taiwanese?” paper presented at the conference “Taiwan in the Realm of East Asia,” Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, Oct. 23rd.
2016. “Radical Candidate Anchoring the Moderate: Experimental Evidence of the Extremeness Aversion Effect,” paper presented at 2016 Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, Apr. 8th. With Austin Wang.
2016. “Are Voters Turning Left? Labor Market Dualization and Political Behaviors in Taiwan,” paper presented at 2016 Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, Apr. 7th. With Wei-Ting Yen.
2015. “Is There Dictatorial Peace? Party Institutionalization and Restraint on Use of Force,” paper presented at 2015 Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, Apr. 17th
2015. “Unpacking Support for Free Trade: Experimental Evidence from Taiwan,” paper presented at 2015 Annual Conference of the MPSA, Chicago, Apr. 16th
2014. “Resilience from the Past: Authoritarian Dominant Party Institutionalization in East Asia,” paper presented at 2014 Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Apr. 4th
2012. “The Practice of Economic Democracy: the principles of cooperativism,” paper presented at the 7th Conference on Globalization and Administrative Governance, Kainan University, Taoyuan, Apr. 27th (in Chinese)
2011. “The Changing Attitudes of China’s Mass Media Reporting on Taiwan-Related Issue, 2000 - 2010,” paper presented at the 2011 Annual Conference of Chinese Political Science, Chinese Association for Political Science and Tunghai University, Taichung City, Oct. 16th (in Chinese)
2008. “The Political Mobility of Chinese Economic Technocrats since 1978: characteristics and trends,” paper presented at the 2008 Annual Conference of the Chinese Association of Political Science, Chinese Association of Political Science and National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Sep. 27th (in Chinese)
Selective Book Reviews
2018. “Taiwan’s China Dillema.” Taiwan Journal of Democracy 15(1) (in Chinese)
2017. “Dictators and Their Secret Police.” Taiwan Journal of Democracy 14(1) (in Chinese)
2013. “Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War.” Political Science Quarterly Book Review 38: 12-16 (in Chinese)
2012. “The Political Economy of ‘Winner-take-all’: The Winner-Take-All Society, The Silent Takeover, Unequal Democracy, and Winner-Take-All Politics.” Political Science Quarterly Book Review 33: 1-10 (in Chinese)
2011. “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000.” Political Science Quarterly Book Review 30: 19-24 (in Chinese)
2011. “Rational Ritual: culture, coordination, and common knowledge.” Political Science Quarterly Book Review 29: 5-28 (in Chinese)
2010. “Veto Players: how political institutions work.” Political Science Quarterly Book Review 27: 25-28 (in Chinese)
Other Experience
‧Co-founder and major editor of “Who Governs Taiwan” website (whogovernstw.org), since 2014.
75K followers as of July 10th.
‧Co-editor of the “US Taiwan Watch” project (www.uswatch.tw), since 2018. 122K followers.
Board member, US Taiwan Watch, 501(c)(3) NPO, since 2020.
‧Columnist of Lihpao Daily (2012/1–2013/9), The News Lens (Since 2014/1), UDN Daily Online (Since 2014/12), Apple Daily (Since 2019/3)
‧Program Committee Assistant, North American Taiwan Studies Association, 2015-2018
‧Taiwanese Delegate, “2011 Strait Talk Symposium at UC Berkeley”. 04/05/2011–04/12/2011
‧Co-founder and Executive Member of Social Group “Youth Hoya”. since 03/2011
‧Second Lieutenant, Platoon leader, Military Police, Taiwan. 08/2009–07/2010
‧Chief Editor, Department Magazine of the Dept. of Diplomacy. 05/2007–05/2009
Published by Department of Diplomacy, NCCU
‧Personal Awards of Debate Contests
Best Debater and Second Prize, Financial Smart Pay Cup. 12/2010
Best Debater and Third Prize. Politics Cup. 05/2009
Best Debater and Third Prize. Democracy Cup. 12/2008