Austin Horng-En Wang

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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

Expertise: Asia Politics, Taiwan Politics, Taiwan-China-US relationship, Public Opinion and Election

Biography

Austin Horng-En Wang is an expert on voting behavior, East Asian politics, and political psychology. His dissertation examined the relationship between temporal discounting and political participation through survey and experiments in the U.S., Taiwan, and Ukraine. His current research explores the long-term effect of political repression and attitude toward war in East Asia.

Wang’s commentary on Asian politics have appeared in The Washington Post, The National Interest, and Huffington Post, among others. His research has been published in highly respected journals, including Political Research Quarterly, Electoral Studies, Asian Survey, and Social Science Research.

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Duke University
M.A., Political Science, National Taiwan University
B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University

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Austin Horng-En Wang In The News

Is TikTok pushing Taiwan’s young people closer to China?

Financial Times

A 2022 survey conducted by Austin Wang at the University of Nevada - Las Vegas suggested that TikTok had no marked influence on supporters of the DPP or the KMT opposition, which supports closer ties with China. But among people who supported the smaller Taiwan People’s party, which benefited from younger swing voters’ distaste for traditional partisan politics, “whether or not they use Douyin has a significant impact on political attitudes," Wang wrote.

If Trump or Harris is elected, how will Taiwan policy change? Beyond strategic ambiguity and strategic clarity, the possibility of a third line

The News Lens

U.S. policy toward Taiwan is mainly affected by how the United States evaluates the following four levels: China's ambitions and capabilities toward Taiwan, China's political and economic development, Taiwan's attitude toward China, and its evaluation of Taiwan's political economy.

Taiwan’s parliament passes controversial bills seen as limiting government’s mandate

VOA News

Taiwan’s opposition-controlled parliament has passed a set of legal amendments granting lawmakers greater investigative power to scrutinize the government under President Lai Ching-te, who took office on May 20.

Why Are Taiwanese Youth Protesting Against Legislative Reform?

The Diplomat

On the night of May 21, tens of thousands of Taiwanese people, including many college and senior high school students, demonstrated in the rain outside the Legislative Yuan, the parliament of Taiwan. They were opposing a new package of bills that would expand legislative power, proposed by the Kuomintang (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), the two main opposition parties that together hold a majority in the Legislative Yuan.