Peer-Reviewed Publications
- “How Personalist Parties Undermine State Capacity in Democracies.” Comparative Political Studies 56, no. 13 (2023): 2030–2065. (with Joseph Wright) (pre-print with appendix; reproduction files)
- “Personalist Ruling Parties in Democracies.” Democratization 29, no. 5 (2022): 918–938. (with Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, and Joseph Wright) (pre-print; appendix; reproduction files)
Working Papers
- Manipulated Date and Motivated Vote: How Changing Election Dates Shapes Turnout (abstract) (manuscript) (R&R at Political Behavior)
- Mark Dictators’ Calendars: The Manipulation of Election Schedules in Autocracies (abstract) (manuscript)
- I Leave in Peace: Autocratic Elections and Negotiated Regime Transitions (abstract) (manuscript)
- International Negative Propaganda, Overseas Nationals, and Support for Autocratic Government (with Rosemary Pang) (abstract) (manuscript) (under review)
- Capitalizing on Neighbor’s Trouble: Anticorruption Campaigns and University Research Output (with Zhongyang He) (abstract) (manuscript) (under review)
- Lying Low in Line: Cascade of Falsification about Political Participation Amid Autocratization
- When They Flex Muscles: Military Parade, Public Opinion, and Falsification
Editor-Reviewed Publications
- “Democracy under Threat: How the Personalization of Political Parties Undermines Democracy”. Transatlantic Security, Center for a New American Security, February 28, 2023. (with Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Joseph Wright, Carisa Nietsche, Nicholas Lokker, and Nikolai Rice)
- Book review of Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy by Michael Albertus and Victor Menaldo. Democratization 27, no. 3 (2020): 497-499.
- “Insider Story: A Learned Evaluation of ‘One Country Two Systems’ in Hong Kong”. Book review of The Quest for Rule of Law in Hong Kong under One Country Two Systems (in Chinese) by A. H. Y. Chen. New Frontiers in Asian Scholarship, Harvard-Yenching Institute, January 28, 2013.
Work in Progress
- Scheduling Coups: Election Calendar and Coup Risk in Autocracies (with John Chin)
- Surfing Waves or Making Waves? Declining Trust in Democracy and Election of Personalist Leaders (with Yuehong Cassandra Tai and Rosemary Pang)
- “Sanction Us, Please!”: Popular Support for Foreign Sanctions against Their Own Government (with Lingbo Zhao)
- Political Violence, Electoral Behavior and Their Interaction with Identity (with Zeeshan Saeed)
- Divergence of Media Language in the China-U.S. Decoupling (with Danqing Mei and Wayne Yuan Gao)
Dissertation
- Mark Dictators’ Calendars: An Informational Theory of Election Schedules in Autocracies (abstract) (Penn State Libraries)