Political scientist @HkbuGis | contentious politics and conflict process | DPhil @Politics_Oxford Author of "The Making of Leaderful Mobilization" (CUP 2025)
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When is protester violence permissible? Support for protests often declines when they turn violent. In this new paper, we find that Americans are more likely to endorse it when protest follows repression and tolerate it when they agree with protest goals. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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🚗🔋 Many think Beijing masterfully planned China's EV takeover. Fengming Lu (@ANUBellSchool ) and I spent 3 years and 60+ interviews finding out what actually happened in our latest article @TheChinaJournal. A thread 🧵
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Professor Samson Yuen (Hong Kong Baptist University) will give a workshop on “Economic Precarity and Populism in East Asia” at Waseda University on July 1 at 5:00 PM. No registration is required, and all are welcome.
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Many thanks to the editors, reviewers, and colleagues for their valuable comments along the way!
🏛️ Why would an authoritarian state not enforce its own policies?
➡️ Studying China’s social insurance system, @haozhang328 & @zhangye68 find that promotion incentives and competition lead local officials to tolerate firm payroll tax evasion cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView
Leaderless protests are prone to violent escalation, but can they be regulated?
1/ My new paper @JPR_journal explores how "internal brakes" are constructed to regulate militant tactics, using the case of Hong Kong.
Read here (hope you like the title): academic.oup.com/jpr/advance…
Proud of our civil society. Hong Kong is very much alive.
HKFP_Live: Volunteers hand out supplies near Tai Po fire site xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1kvJpMkOo…
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HKFP_Live: Volunteers hand out supplies near Tai Po fire site xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1kvJpMkOo…
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📢 Call for Papers – Hong Kong Sociological Association Annual Conference 6th December 2025. Abstract submissions are open until 19 September. I’m honoured to be giving a keynote at the conference and look forward to engaging with fellow scholars.
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In this new #OnlineFirst article, Gary Tang and colleagues examine how independent journalists in post-#NSL Hong Kong act as key agents of democratic resilience. The article highlights their risk navigation, persistence and professional ethics.
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What happens before and after tenure? Check out our latest paper in PNAS @PNASNews: Tenure and Research Trajectories
Led by Giorgio Tripodi, postdoc in my lab. Fun collaboration with Xiangzheng, @qian_yifan, Dakota Murray, @bfjo & @ChaoqunNi
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Happy to share our new paper, published in Electoral Studies, co-authored with @M_higashijima, N. Shimizu & H. Washida. We introduce our new dataset, which records national election dates in 148 autocracies and democracies from 1945 to 2023. Open access: authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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"Comparative politics has needed a book like this – one that directly and dedicatedly tackles the topic of counterrevolutions – for a very long time."
Return of Tyranny by Killian Clark, Coming Soon
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Acknowledging the success of digital activism during the Anti-ELAB Movement, this article @SocialMedia_Soc documents challenges to efficacy for organizers amidst democratic backsliding, including fragmentation of voices, diverse forms of participation, and concerns about trust.
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We’re watching Noble House and wow look at what HK used to look like! Look at Aberdeen! Look it’s the famous pothole window building! Look at all that neon!
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Just open-sourced the course materials of my course "Data Science in Politics and Public Administration" at HKU. github.com/haohanchen/dasppa…
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We are looking forward to hosting @selinalcho later this month at @HKUniversity @ppa_hku2024!
If you are in HK, please join us and hear more about this fascinating work on China, SE Asia, and "grey" special economic zones.
Registration + details: hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hde…
If you’re in Hong Kong and interested in how China is managing transnational crime and scam centers in Southeast Asia, please come attend my talk hosted by HKU. It’s based on a forthcoming article explaining the varieties of Chinese interventions. linkedin.com/posts/selina-ho…
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The Department of Politics & Public Admin @HKUniversity is hosting an empirical research conference May 16-17. We aim to bring together scholars doing exciting, cutting-edge research in Asia & beyond.
HKU PPA will cover transport & accommodation for nonlocal presenters. Details:
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📽️Are your favourite characters from Disney, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, & Star Wars left-wing or right-wing? 🤔
➡️ S.J.Turnbull-Dugarte & @MarkusWagnerAT explore how we project political identities onto heroes & villains cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView
