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2023 American Political Science Association
Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS) CALL FOR PAPERS Submission Deadline: January 18, 2023 The 2023 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting will be held from August 31- September 3, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. The conference theme is “Rights and Responsibilities in an Age of Mis- and Disinformation.” CGOTS invites paper and panel proposals on Taiwan’s domestic politics, cross-Strait issues, and international relations consistent with the theme of “Rights and Responsibilities in an Age of Mis- and Disinformation.” Political communication can be fraught with mis- and disinformation that can skew the political landscape and impact the attitudes and actions of political actors. Misinformation broadly refers to disseminating false, misleading, or unsubstantiated information without intent to deceive. Disinformation goes further to deliberately mislead with biased information, manipulated facts, or propaganda. Both can include fake news, conspiracy theories, and rumors and be spread by ordinary individuals, influencers, governments, public-relations firms, internet bots, or human-curated fake social media accounts. Mis- and disinformation are not new, but these phenomena are becoming increasingly prevalent and problematic worldwide. Advances in communication technologies mean that they can spread faster and broader than fact-based information. Polarized publics are especially eager consumers. A further innovation is producing “deep fakes” that make distinguishing fakes and facts harder. On one hand, spreading information–whether false or true–can be expressed in the terminology of rights. Efforts to address mis- and disinformation take place in the context of the internationally recognized human rights of freedom of thought and expression. Engaging in mis and disinformation can be seen as exercising the right to freedom of thought and speech. In this vein, limiting or regulating information flows can be portrayed as overstepping or infringing upon these rights and controlling people’s actions. Governments may use tackling mis- and disinformation to justify infringing these rights. At the extreme, critics have linked information-monitoring to the kinds of oppression we see from authoritarian governments. On the other hand, exercising the right to freedom of expression without embracing responsibility for providing accurate, evidence-based, and truthful information hurts trust and many rights other than free speech. Covid-19-related misinformation, for example, undercuts the right to health. Election-related disinformation can corrode the right to free and fair elections by discouraging voting, eroding trust in democratic norms, and corrupting institutions. Falsehoods that amplify hatred against racial and ethnic, religious, or political minorities violate the right to non-discrimination, freedom of religion, and even self-determination. In this vein, we could perhaps have a right to the truth that supersedes the “right” to lie. Nonetheless, even apparent attempts to fight mis- and disinformation could be employed against political opponents, repress critical journalists’ freedom of the press, and hurt markets. For the 2023 Annual Meeting, we encourage participants to consider questions about “Rights and Responsibilities in an Age of Mis- and Disinformation” in Taiwan, especially those that highlight diversity in methodological approaches and topics. We also welcome proposals attentive to various domestic and international challenges Taiwan encounters in a world of mis- and disinformation. Entering the final year of President Tsai Ing-wen’s second term, studies examining changes in the political landscape in Taiwan and its future direction is particularly desired. We encourage scholars to raise and study the following questions under the Taiwan context, including how citizens react to the Mis- and Disinformation in Taiwan; how to better understand the diverse social clusters and their respective political views and demands in Taiwan; how to utilize and demonstrate various methodological approaches to advance scholarly understanding of Taiwan politics; how to comprehend cross-Strait relations under Tsai’s second term and the future administration; and how to incorporate the concept of diversity in scholarly research of Taiwan politics. We also welcome proposals that utilize innovative and diverse approaches to understand how Mis- and Disinformation in Taiwan affect the attitude toward allies and competitors. Research investigating the dynamics of U.S.-Taiwan-China relations, the effect of Mis- and Disinformation on Taiwan’s domestic and international politics, the impact of Mis- and Disinformation on Taiwan’s outward and inward trade and investment patterns, the potential changes between the cross-Strait relations in the era of misinformation, and the public perception on Taiwan’s foreign policy is highly desirable. These questions help the political science academe to understand Taiwan in the global context better and raise Taiwan’s international visibility. Please send proposals to APSA, and choose CGOTS as one of your submission’s subfield : https://connect.apsanet.org/apsa2023/ The submission deadline is January 18, 2023. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Austin Wang ([email protected]) CGOTS Coordinator. Travel support for CGOTS panelists is subject to the availability of external funding. Best regards, Austin Horng-En Wang, Coordinator, CGOTS, http://www.apsacgots.org/ Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Our CGOTS Member Professor Elizabeth Freund LARUS 藍若思at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia just published her new book, Politics, and Society in Contemporary China 2nd ed., which is available for your purchase, course adoption, or adoption by your university library.
This book introduces students to the historical context of politics in China, the Mao years and Deng’s reforms, and China’s economy, politics, and society in the Xi Jinping years. You can order a copy by visiting https://www.rienner.com/title/Politics_and_Society_in_Contemporary_China_2nd_edition Please note that examination copies and e-book subscriptions are also available. I personally used her 1st edition for my Asian politics course before. Her book is an ideal introductory textbook for both undergraduate and graduate courses. Please share with us your publication and events. APSA-CGOTS coordinating team will do our best to promote and encourage our members to support each other. #Together We’re Stronger! #Taiwan: A Straw Shows Which Way The Democratic Wind Blows Before entering the new year, we are pleased to announce that our 2020 Winter APSA-CGOTS Newsletter is now online! In this newsletter, you will find the up-to-date information regarding the 2021 APSA conference and submission rules. Also, as promised, we try to keep updating the content on the internet outlets regularly, so it will provide more useful information for our members. Hopefully, the newsletter and our social media page will encourage all of our members to stay in touch, and tell us what you are up to. Please read through the newsletter and let me know what do you think. Happy New Year and Stay tuned!
2020 Fall APSA-CGOTS Newsletter is now online! We try to provide up-to-date information regarding the 2021 APSA conference and submission rules. Also, the newsletter introduces some new initiatives to further promote Taiwan studies in the US and beyond. Please read through the newsletter and let me know what do you think. Stay tuned! The Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS) call for papers is up for the 2021 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), to be held September 30 – October 03, 2021, in Seattle, WA. The APSA conference theme is "Promoting Pluralism." Our official Related Group call for papers is posted below; it's also available in pdf format here.
The deadline for submissions is Thursday, January 14, 2020 . The 2021 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting will be held from September 30-October 3, 2021, in Seattle, WA. The conference theme is “Promoting Pluralism.” CGOTS invites paper and panel proposals on Taiwan’s domestic politics, cross-Strait issues, and international relations that are consistent with the theme of “Promoting Pluralism.” This call for proposals opens in the midst of a political, economic, and social upheaval that portends significant transformations across the globe. The answers to what these global shifts mean for governments, nations, communities, and individuals are neither straightforward nor obvious, and the tools necessary to examine them are varied and expansive. More than ever, political science is positioned to address pressing questions of this moment and beyond, provided we embrace and promote the rich intellectual pluralism of our discipline – in methodology, methods, behavior, institutions, and perspective. In addition, we recognize that the diversity of our scholars in terms of racial and ethnic background, nationality, gender, sexuality, and gender expression, institutions and professional career stage contributes to knowledge and ways of understanding the world. Perhaps the most well-recognized dimension of political science’s pluralism is methodological. Ours is a discipline rich in the usage of methodologies and methods from a range of fields. Such is only natural when considering a topic as complex and broad as politics. We have an epistemologically pluralistic profession, which we should encourage, protecting as an asset the strength of our divergent voices. Yet, most if not all of us have our preferred approaches, and, as a result, tacitly downplay others. But, it is this tension that makes political science so fruitful. The mix has translated into a discipline that is not only more open but also more scrupulous. Our discipline’s heterogeneous field of methodologies, methods, and theories is and should be a hallmark of political science and an opportunity to lead other social sciences. This is a crucial time for the discipline in terms of the expansion and acceptance of a range of methodologies and methods. For the 2021 Annual Meeting, we encourage participants to consider questions about “Promoting Pluralism” in Taiwan, especially those that highlight diversity in methodological approaches and topics. We also welcome proposals attentive to various domestic and international challenges Taiwan is encountering in the COVID-19 global environment. It is the second year of President Tsai Ing-wen’s second term, and studies examining changes over the political landscape in Taiwan and its future direction is particularly desired. We encourage scholars to raise and study the following questions under the Taiwan context, including how citizens react to the global impact of COVID-19 in Taiwan; how to better understand the diverse social clusters and their respective political views and demands in Taiwan; how to utilize and demonstrate various methodological approaches to advance scholarly understanding of Taiwan politics; how to comprehend cross-Strait relations under Tsai’s second term; and how to incorporate the concept of diversity in scholarly research of Taiwan politics. We also welcome proposals that utilize innovative and diverse approaches to understand how Taiwan positions itself under the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy and the ongoing U.S.-China confrontations. Research investigating the dynamics of U.S.-Taiwan-China relations, the influences of China on Taiwan’s domestic and international politics, the impact of COVID-19 on Taiwan’s outward and inward trade and investment patterns, the potential changes between the cross-Strait relations during and after COVID-19, and the public perception on Taiwan’s foreign policy is highly desirable. These questions help the political science academe to better understand Taiwan under the global context and raise Taiwan’s international visibility. Please send proposals to APSA: (https://connect.apsanet.org/apsa2021/related-group-calls/) If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Dennis Weng ([email protected]), CGOTS Coordinator. Travel support for CGOTS panelists is subject to the availability of external funding. The Conference Group on Taiwan Studies is a Related Group of the American Political Science Association. For this year's annual virtual conference, CGOTS is sponsoring seven special panels on Taiwanese politics, from September 10-13, 2020. We're very fortunate to have a terrific line-up of panels this year, enough for a full mini-conference of presentations on Taiwanese politics.
In addition, we encourage all CGOTS members to attend the Conference Group on Taiwan Studies Business Meeting, Saturday, September 12, from 7:00-8:00pm (MDT). All panels and the Business Meeting will take place in the virtual meeting room, and are open to all conference attendees. Panel 1: Politics of Immigration and Progressive Issues in Taiwan Thu, Sep.10, 8:00 to 9:30am (MDT) [7:00-8:30am (PDT); 9:00-10:30am (CDT); 10:00-11:30am (EDT)] Thu, Sep.10, 10:00-11:30pm (Taipei, GMT+8) Chair: Shelley Rigger, Davidson College Discussants: Wei-Ting Yen, Franklin and Marshall College
Panel 2: New Perspectives on the Elections and Voting: The Case of Taiwan Thu, Sep.10, 10:00 to 11:30am (MDT) [9:00-10:30am (PDT); 11:00am-12:30pm (CDT); 12:00-1:30pm (EDT)] Fri, Sep.11, 12:00-1:30am (Taipei, GMT+8) Chair: Christopher Achen, Princeton University Discussants: Lu-Chung Dennis Weng, Sam Houston State University
Panel 3: Emerging Issues and Puzzles in Taiwanese Politics Fri, Sep.11, 8:00 to 9:30am (MDT) [7:00-8:30am (PDT); 9:00-10:30am (CDT); 10:00-11:30am (EDT)] Fri, Sep.11, 10:00-11:30pm (Taipei, GMT+8) Chair: Pei-te Lien, University of California, Santa Barbara Discussants: Ching-Hsing Wang, National Cheng Kung University
Panel 4: Public Policy and Legislative Studies in Taiwan Fri, Sep.11, 10:00 to 11:30am (MDT) [9:00-10:30am (PDT); 11:00am-12:30pm (CDT); 12:00-1:30pm (EDT)] Sat, Sep.12, 12:00-1:30am (Taipei, GMT+8) Chair: Karl Ho, University of Texas, Dallas Discussants: Fang-Yu Chen, Michigan State University; Nick Lin, Academia Sinica
Panel 5: Polarization and National Identity: The 2020 General Elections in Taiwan Sat, Sep.12, 8:00 to 9:30am (MDT) [7:00-8:30am (PDT); 9:00-10:30am (CDT); 10:00-11:30am (EDT)] Sat, Sep.12, 10:00-11:30pm (Taipei, GMT+8) Chair: Yao-Yuan Yeh, University of St. Thomas Discussants: Austin Horng-En Wang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Kharis Templeman, Stanford University
Pane 6: Social Media and its Political Impact in the Contemporary Taiwan Sat, Sep.12, 10:00 to 11:30am (MDT) [9:00-10:30am (PDT); 11:00am-12:30pm (CDT); 12:00-1:30pm (EDT)] Sun, Sep.13, 12:00-1:30am (Taipei, GMT+8) Chair: Chung-li Wu, Academia Sinica Discussants: Yi-Chun Chien, National Chengchi University
Conference Group on Taiwan Studies Business Meeting Sat, September 12, 7 to 8pm (MDT) [6-7pm (PDT); 8am-9pm (CDT); 9-10pm (EDT)] Sun, September 13, 9-10am (Taipei, GMT+8) Please contact Yao-Yuan Yeh at [email protected] if you would like to acquire the meeting link. Panel 7: Changes and Trends in Cross-Strait Relations between Taiwan and China Sun, Sep. 13, 8:00 to 9:30am (MDT) [7:00-8:30am (PDT); 9:00-10:30am (CDT); 10:00-11:30am (EDT)] Sun, Sep.13, 10:00-11:30pm (Taipei, GMT+8) Chair: Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas Discussants: Jason Kuo, National Taiwan University; Charles Chong-Han Wu, National Chengchi University
The Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS) call for papers is up for the 2020 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), to be held September 10 – September 13, 2020, in San Francisco, CA. The APSA conference theme is "Democracy, Difference, and Destabilization." Our official Related Group call for papers is posted below; it's also available in pdf format here. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, January 14, 2020 . 2020 American Political Science Association Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS) Call for Papers The 2020 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting will be held from September 10-13, 2020, in San Francisco, CA. The conference theme is “Democracy, Difference, and Destabilization.”
CGOTS invites paper and panel proposals on Taiwan’s domestic politics, cross-Strait issues, and international relations that are consistent with the theme of “Democracy, Difference, and Destabilization.” In the United States, democratic institutions are generally thought of as bulwarks against manifold threats, both inside and outside of the American polity. Indeed, the assumption has been that our nation’s constitution is solid and prescient enough to thwart—or at the least contain—the more authoritarian impulses of citizens and elected officials alike. Donald J. Trump’s election to the presidency of the United States in 2016 has dramatically called into question this working assumption. Yet President Trump’s ascendance to executive power is more epilogue than prologue to the inclusivity of American democracy. In the decades leading to Trump’s momentous election, there were already countless signs of democracy displaying illiberal tendencies in the United States. For example, the Supreme Court’s abandonment of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act has made it possible for states to suppress the ability of citizens of color to register and vote. The practice of gerrymandering continues to enable one political party to maintain control of state legislatures and congressional delegations, regardless of the intensity of their electoral support. Doubts have been raised anew about birthright citizenship, which was first established through the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to formally incorporate Black Americans into the body politic. The United States is not alone in peering down this deep dark well. Brazilians have ushered in President Jair Bolsonaro, who openly disdains democratic principles. Poland’s citizens have been witness to their conservative party attempting a dismantling of the judiciary and separation of powers. In Egypt, repression and authoritarian control has tightened substantially under the political control of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Hong Kong’s emerging democracy has stalled, though signs of democratic resistance emerged in summer 2019. For the 2020 Annual Meeting, we encourage participants to consider questions about “Democracy, Difference, and Destabilization” in Taiwan, especially those that speak to the strengths and weaknesses of Taiwan’s democracy under the theme perspective, and to various domestic and international issues related to threats imposed by the Chinese authoritarian regime. The next presidential and legislative elections in Taiwan will be held on January 11, 2020. It is perfect timing to investigate the existing and emerging problems facing Taiwan’s democratic rules and practices. We encourage scholars to raise and study the following questions under the Taiwan context, including how citizens react to democratic threats in Taiwan; who, within democratic publics, endorses illiberal tactics and practices in Taiwan; who, within mass publics, staffs the barricades against democratic threats in Taiwan; when individuals perceive a threat to their position within a democracy and how they respond politically in Taiwan; where, across the globe, mass publics best reconcile capitalism with support for democratic institutions; where, in the world, we see people agitating to gain or maintain rights; and why some individuals interpret demographic changes as threats to their rights, rather than a plus for democratic governance in Taiwan. We also welcome proposals that utilize innovative approaches to understand how Taiwan positions itself under the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy and the ongoing U.S.-China trade frictions. Research investigating the dynamics of the U.S.-Taiwan-China relations, the influences of China on Taiwan’s domestic and international politics, the impact of the U.S.-China trade frictions on Taiwan’s outward and inward trade and investment patterns, the potential changes between the cross-Strait relations as a result of the 2020 general elections, and the public perception on Taiwan’s foreign policy is highly desirable. These questions help the political science academe to better understand Taiwan under the global context and raise Taiwan’s international visibility. Please send proposals to APSA: (http://community.apsanet.org/annualmeeting/call/papers) If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Yao-Yuan Yeh ([email protected]), CGOTS Coordinator. Travel support for CGOTS panelists is subject to the availability of external funding. Cross-posting this from here. CGOTS held a full day of events during APSA 2019 in Washington, DC. Keep an eye out for our call for papers for the next annual meeting in San Francisco, Sept. 13-20, 2020. The Conference Group on Taiwan Studies is a Related Group of the American Political Science Association. For this year's annual conference in Washington, DC, CGOTS is sponsoring a full day of five (yes, five!) special panels on Taiwanese politics, all on Friday, August 30, from 8:00am-5:30pm. We're very fortunate to have a terrific line-up of panels this year, enough for a full mini-conference of presentations on Taiwanese politics.
In addition, we encourage all CGOTS members to attend the Conference Group on Taiwan Studies Business Meeting, Friday, August 30, from 6:30-7:30pm. All panels and the Business Meeting will take place in the same location, the Washington Hilton, Fairchild East Room, and are open to all conference attendees. The full line-up of panels and presentations is listed below. The 2019 CGOTS Schedule at APSA8:00 AM – 9:30 AM, Friday, August 30. 2019 (Washington Hilton, Fairchild East) Panel Title: Reunderstanding Cross-Strait Relations: The Status Quo? The One-China Policy? Chair: Robert Sutter, George Washington University Discussants: Scott Kastner, the University of Maryland and Kuen-Da Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM, Friday, August 30. 2019 (Washington Hilton, Fairchild East) Panel Title: New Theories and New Evidence: Studies of Turnout and Election in Taiwan Chair: Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas Discussants: Timothy S. Rich, Western Kentucky University and Nick Lin, Academia Sinica
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM, Friday, August 30. 2019 (Washington Hilton, Fairchild East) Panel Title: Public Opinion Research in Taiwan: Old Topics and New Angles Chair: Da-Chi Liao, National Sun Yat-sen University Discussants: Lu-Chung Dennis Weng, Sam Houston State University and Ching-Hsing Wang, National Cheng Kung University
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, Friday, August 30. 2019 (Washington Hilton, Fairchild East) Panel Title: Legislative Politics and Emerging Social Issues in Taiwan Chair: David An, Catholic University of America/Global Taiwan Institute Discussants: Wei-ting Yen, Franklin and Marshall College and Fang-Yu Chen, Michigan State University
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM, Friday, August 30. 2019 (Washington Hilton, Fairchild East) Panel Title: Social Media, Big Data Analysis, and Electoral Politics in Taiwan Chair: Christopher H. Achen, Princeton University Discussants: Eric Chen-hua Yu, National Chengchi University and T.Y. Wang, Illinois State University
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM, Friday, August 30. 2019 (Washington Hilton, Fairchild East) Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS) Business Meeting Early days yet, but since we have it already we'll put it up here. The Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS) call for papers is up for the 2019 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), to be held August 29-September 1 in Washington, DC. The APSA conference theme is "Populism and Privilege." Our official Related Group call for papers is reposted below; it's also available in pdf format here. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, January 15 at 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time. 2019 American Political Science Association Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS) Call for Papers The 2019 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting will be held from August 29 to September 1, 2019, in Washington, DC. The conference theme is “Populism and Privilege”
CGOTS invites paper and panel proposals on Taiwan’s domestic politics, cross-Strait issues, and international relations that are consistent with the theme of “Populism and Privilege.” No recent political development has been more striking than the rise to power of self-identified populist movements around the globe, whose main unifying trait is their claim to champion “the people” against entrenched selfish “elites.” These movements display differences that have sparked debates over which, if any, should be called “populist”; how they compare with past “populisms”; and what “populism” is. The current partisans, often labeled populist, have more often been on the right than the left, including anti-immigrant, anti-globalization, ardently nationalist parties such as Fidesz in Hungary; the Law and Justice Party in Poland; and the Trump Republicans in the United States. Until recently, however, left-wing populist movements were ascendant in Latin America. In fact, they remain important there and in other regions, something suggested by support for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 American primaries. Some positions increasingly labeled as populist, such as the ruling regime across the Strait, the Chinese nationalism of Xi Jinping, represents forms of state capitalism that are harder to identify on either the left or right. Indeed, modern “populist” movements have a wide variety of economic agendas, even as most push against the leading institutions of the global economic order, such as the IMF, the World Bank, and multilateral trade agreements. Some, such as in Erdogan’s Turkey and Mohdi’s India, are stridently religious; others, like the anti-immigrant populisms in Europe and the United States, often feature racial and cultural themes. When comparing Taiwan to other established or even newly established democracies, the level of populism in Taiwan is considerably mild. But the 2014 Sunflower Students Movement and other social movements such as the one against the revision of labor rights law during Tsai Ing-wen’s early administration, are signs of the rise of populism. For the 2019 Annual Meeting, we encourage participants to consider questions about “Populism and Privilege” in Taiwan, especially those that speak to the strengths and weaknesses of Taiwan’s democracy under the theme perspective, and to various domestic and international issues related to threats imposed by the Chinese populist regime. These topics could include research about the emergence of populist movements among citizens through studies of public opinion and social media, the relations between political parties and their strategies during electoral campaigns, changing of social issues and policies on immigration, trade, labor rights, and minorities after DPP regained power in 2016, and the dynamics of ideological shifts within more than two decades of Taiwan’s democracy. The next general local election in Taiwan is scheduled in December, 2018. How will the electoral outcome change the landscape of Taiwan’s political composition, and how will the existing social issues, such as rising inequality, stagnant wages, and an aging society be managed? How will the issues related to social justice and gaps between elites and commons play a role in this election, and how these issues will be altered after the election? We would also especially welcome proposals that utilize innovative approaches to understand how China factor influences Taiwan’s politics, cross-Strait relations, and Taiwan’s role in the global society. How would and will the ongoing trade war between China and the United States affect the role of Taiwan in the current US-China relations? How would and will the changing dynamics of the relations between North Korea and the United States influence Taiwan through the perspective of global and East Asian regional security? How would and will the power/party alternation from Ma Ying-jeou (KMT) to Tsai Ing-wen (DPP) alter the cross-Strait relations? What is the impact of Tsai’s New Southbound Policy on Taiwan’s economic performance and what will be the future direction of it? Other related proposals aim to address Taiwan’s international status and the US-Taiwan relations are strongly encouraged as they provide profound implications to policymakers in both Taiwan and the United States. Please send proposals to APSA: (https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa19/) If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Yao-Yuan Yeh ([email protected]), CGOTS Coordinator. Travel support for CGOTS panelists is subject to the availability of external funding. At the 2018 annual APSA meeting, the Conference Group on Taiwan Studies membership endorsed a new leadership team for the coming year.  The new Coordinator of CGOTS is Yao-Yuan Yeh 葉耀元 (Ph.D. Texas A&M, 2014). Dr. Yeh is currently an assistant professor in the Center for International Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. He previous taught in political science department at UC Merced. His research focuses on political attitudes in authoritarian countries, political violence, and Taiwanese and Chinese studies, and his teaching interests include international studies, comparative politics, and research methods. His work has appeared at Social Science Quarterly, China Quarterly, Terrorism and Political Violence, and British Journal of Political Science.  The new Deputy North American Coordinator is Dennis Lu-cheng Weng 翁履中 (Ph.D. University of Texas at Dallas, 2014). Dr. Weng is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Prior to joining SHSU, he taught at Wesleyan University and SUNY-Cortland. Dr. Weng’s research and teaching interests are in the fields of comparative politics, Asian Politics, political behavior, and survey research. His articles have appeared in Electoral Studies, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, Asian Journal of Political Science, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, and several news media outlets in Asia.  The new Deputy Taiwan Coordinator is Shiau-chi Shen 沈筱綺 (Ph.D. Columbia University, 2013).
Dr. Shen is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at National Soochow University in Taipei, Taiwan. She previously taught at National Tsing-hua University in Hsinchu. Her research and teaching interests are in the fields of comparative politics, public opinion, national identity, and political participation. |
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