Nicole Koval and Kenneth Miller (both Political Science) published their article, "Gender and Attack Advertising in U.S. Senate Campaigns," in Sage Open. In this article the authors find that candidates running in for office today are attacked in campaigns based on the issues on which their parties have weaker reputations with voters. But…

John Tuman, Michelle Kuenzi (both Political Science), and Hafthor Erlingsson, '19 Ph.D. Political Science, have published an article titled, "Structural adjustment, economic performance, and electoral volatility in presidential elections in Latin America," in the journal Latin American Policy.

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by the Department of Communication at the University of Washington to have a talk on May 15, titled "Fighting Against Cognitive Warfare: The case of Taiwan." In this talk, Wang shared his recent findings of China's cognitive warfare on Taiwanese people and its influence on the public…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) co-authored the article, "US-skepticism and transnational conspiracy in the 2024 Taiwanese presidential election" in HKS Misinformation Review. In this article, Wang and others analyzed the misinformation on social media platforms during the 2024 Taiwanese Presidential Election, and revealed that…

The Department of Political Science hosted the conference "A Season of Elections, New (or Renewed) Leadership, and Policy Impacts" on campus on April 26, 2024. The conference is sponsored by Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. Scholars and students from Japan, South Korea, India, Taiwan, UNLV, and other parts of the U.S. attended and presented their…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored chapter, "COVID-19 Pandemic and Cross-Strait Relations," in the new book, Public Opinion, Policy Responses, and Party Politics under the COVID-19 Pandemic. In the chapter, Wang and others reviewed how China and Taiwan governments responded to the cross-strait relationships…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published the article, "Strategic Ambiguity, Strategic Clarity, and Dual Clarity," in Foreign Policy Analysis. In this article, Wang and others conducted a survey experiment to examine the underlying psychological assumptions behind the strategy ambiguity policy that the US designed for handling…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by the University of St. Thomas at Houston to have a talk on April 6, titled "Taiwan’s 2024 Presidential and Legislative Election: Trends from Polls and Election Results" in the conference "The 2024 Taiwanese General Elections and the Next Phase of Trilateral Relationship between Taiwan,…

Andrew Lugg (Political Science) recently published an article titled, "Why is there no investor-state dispute settlement in RCEP? Bargaining and contestation in the investment regime," in the journal Business and Politics. Available here: Open Access. The article seeks to understand why investor state dispute settlement, which was…

Andrew Lugg (Political Science) published the article "Re-contacting intergovernmental organizations: Membership change and the creation of linked intergovernmental organizations" in the journal Review of International Organizations.

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore to give a talk, titled "Taiwan's 2024 Presidential and Legislative Elections: Explanations and Implications," on Jan. 17. In this talk, Wang analyzed the result of the 2024 Taiwan Presidential election, which suggests that…

Graduate students Darrell Carter, Maddison Westcott, Ruth Boitel (Political Science), and assistant professor Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published an article, "Puppet Anchors and China’s YouTube Information Operation," in the Journal ofTaiwan Politics. This article tracks and analyzes more than 2000 "puppet anchor" machine-…