Research Interests

Participatory budgeting, political parties and organization, comparative political institutions, contentious politics, elections, Latin American politics, Brazil, Hong Kong.

Book Review (solicited)

• Book review of Democracy at Work: Pathways to Well-Being in Brazil (Brian Wampler, Natasha Borges Sugiyama, and Michael Touchton. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2020) (The Developing Economies 2021).
  

Working Papers

• When Election Becomes Contentious Repertoire: How Anti-ELAB Protest Overtook the District Council Election in Hong Kong 2019 (Revise and resubmit)
  
• Why Trouble Back Home Drove Hong Kongers to Trump? A Conjoint Experiment on Hong Kong American Voters
  
• "Party Organization Matters: The Diffusion of PB under the Workers' Party in Brazil"
• "The Tentacles of Participatory Budgeting: Cross-Party Diffusion of PB in Brazil​" 
• "When Paper Stones are not Enough: Party System Institutionalization and Protests" (co-author with Omar Coronel)​

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Workshops and Panels

• "Contentious Politics and its Repercussions in Asia" at APSA's Asia Pacific Workshop (January 2021)
• "Workshop on Contentious Politics and Democracy in Asia" at V-Dem East Asia Center (November 28-29, 2020)
• "Hong Kong in Crisis" co-sponsored by the Keough School of Global Affairs, Liu Institute of Asia and Asian Studies, Kellogg Institute (September 11, 2019)
• "What's the Matter with Brazil" at the Kellogg Institute (November 30, 2016)
• "30 Years of Democracy in Brazil" at the Kellogg Institute (April 20, 2015) 

Ongoing Projects

Comparative Assessment of Electoral Risks (CAER)

Co-investigator

The CAER surveyed 150 members of political science professional associations who specialize in elections, both in the US and abroad, for their evaluations on the likelihood and impact of various threats to the US electoral process, as well as possible strategies to mitigate those threats.

Panel discussion sponsored by the Keough School of Global Affairs (Oct 26, 2020)
The report American Democracy at Risk: A Global Comparative Perspective is available HERE.

Co-investigators: Pal Friesen, Ilana Rothkopf, Luis Schenoni, and Romelia Solano.

Presidential Transition Index (PTI)

Co-investigator

The Presidential Transition Index (PTI) aims to identify potentially weak areas of the US presidential transition process and to provide the public with a weekly updated assessment of the state of the 2020 presidential transition process.

Weekly updates are available HERE.
The preliminary report Presidential Transition Index: Contemporaneous Assessments of the Trump-Biden Transition is available HERE.

Co-investigators: Pal Friesen, Rachel Gagnon, Shadwa Ibrahim, William Kakenmaster, and Denis McDonough

Hong Kong Voices in US Politics

Co-investigator

This is the first survey of its kind that examines the political attitudes of Hong Kongers who have lived, worked or studied in the United States, and Americans who have similar strong ties to Hong Kong. The project aims to examine how the vote choice of Hong Kong-Americans in the 2020 U.S. elections is impacted by the political turmoil in Hong Kong.

The preliminary survey is available at the The Diplomat
Panel Discussion co-sponsored by the Liu Institute of Asia and Asian Studies and Kellogg Institute for International Studies (Jan 20, 2021)

Co-investigator: Victoria Hui
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