Austin Horng-En Wang

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Assistant Professor 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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Why Threads is suddenly popular in Taiwan

MIT Technology Review

For most people around the world, Meta’s text-based social network Threads is a platform that they haven’t thought of for months. But for Liu, a design professional in Taipei, it’s where she’s receiving unprecedented attention.

Musk faces conundrum over SpaceX contract with Pentagon

Cyber News

Eve Smith, co-founder of custom print-on-demand products service PrintKK, readily admits that her company has been navigating the fine line between fulfilling government contracts and maintaining international business relationships.

Taiwan Studies Gains Ground as a Standalone Field of Scholarship

Domino Theory

In the past, when Taiwan was included in Western academia, it was often treated as a footnote within broader fields of study, such as East Asia or China studies. But now, that’s beginning to change.

More than 20% of Taiwanese citizens use TikTok, raising concerns about China's cognitive warfare tool

Epoch Times

According to a survey by a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), the use of TikTok by supporters of the Kuomintang or Democratic Progressive Party does not have a significant impact on political attitudes, but supporters of the centrist People's Party change from supporting Taiwanese independence to opposing Taiwanese independence. It was found that there was a tendency to change from a pro-American orientation to a pro-China orientation.