Dissertation

• ​Mark Dictators’ Calendars: An Informational Theory of Election Schedules in Autocracies (abstract) (Penn State Libraries​)

​​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) (under review)
• 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 Mudslinging in Vain: An Experiment on Negative Propaganda and Overseas Nationals’ Support for Autocratic Government​ (with Rosemary Pang) (abstract) (manuscript) (under review)
• Publish More as Corruption Perishes: Anticorruption Campaigns and Scientific Research (with Zhongyang He) (abstract) (manuscript)​ (under review)

​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)
• Personalist Parties and Trust in Democratic Institutions (with Yuehong Cassandra Tai)
• ​Divergence of Media Language in the China-U.S. Decoupling (with Danqing Mei and Wayne Yuan Gao)
• Popular Support for Foreign Sanctions against Their Own Government (with Lingbo Zhao)​