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Research

Research Interests

Participatory budgeting, political parties and organization, comparative political institutions, transnational contentious politics, social movement and election, Latin American politics, Brazil, Hong Kong.

Publications

  • Shum, Maggie. 2023. "Transnational Activism during Movement Abeyance: Examining the International Front Line of Hong Kong’s 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill Movement." Journal of Asian and African Studies 58(1): 143-66.[supplemental materials: data set & R script]
  • Shum, Maggie. 2021. “When Voting Turnout Becomes Contentious Repertoire: How Anti-ELAB Protest Overtook the District Council Election in Hong Kong 2019.” Japanese Journal of Political Science 22(4): 248–67.
  • Shiraef, M.A., Hirst, C., Weiss, M.A. et al. 2021. "COVID Border Accountability Project, a hand-coded global database of border closures introduced during 2020." Scientific Data 8 (253): 1-11.

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

  • "How Citizens Meet the State: Police Contact, Trust, and Civic Engagement" (with Jacob Turner) [R&R]
  • "PB adoption Across Ideological Divides: Lessons from Brazil" [Minor revision]
  • "Agents of Resistance: Resolve and Repertoires Against Autocratization in Asia" (With Nhu Truong and Elvin Ong) [Minor revision]
  • "Voice After Exit: How Transnational Ties Shape Hong Kong American's Political Engagement and Voting Behavior” (with Victoria Hui)
    • Design pre-registered at EGAP Registry
    • Paper presented in APSA 2021
  • “Resistance from Afar: Evolution of Contentious Repertoires in Hong Kong Diaspora's Transnational Mobilization during the 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement”
  • "Party Organization Matters: The Diffusion of PB under the Workers' Party in Brazil"

Ongoing Projects

How Citizens Meet the State: Origins of Institutional Trust in South Bend, IN

Co-investigator with Jacob Turner
How do the interactions with distinct state organizations such as the police, public healthcare workers, and other civil servants influence political attitudes and behaviors? Our preliminary investigation and theoretical framework suggests that exposure to police violence can undermine the positive impact of quality public goods on feelings of inclusion and trust.

The project received the 2023 Regional Breakthrough Award from the Lucy Institute at the University of Notre Dame.
  • Paper presented at MPSA 2023

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Hong Kong Voices in the US

Co-investigator with Victoria Hui
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)
Working Paper presented in American Political Science Association Conference 2021

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Trump Factors in Hong Kong and Taiwan

Co-investigator with Hans H. Tung and Victoria Tin-bor Hui
This project aims to tease out the driving factor for the surge of Trump’s support among Hong Kongers and Taiwanese during the 2020 US elections.
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Concluded Projects

Comparative Assessment of Electoral Risks (CAER)

Co-investigator with Paul Friesen, Ilana Rothkoph, Luis Schenoni and Romelia Solano
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.
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Presidential Transition Index (PTI)

Co-investigator with Paul Friesen, Rachel Gagnon, Shadwa Ibrahim, William Kakenmaster and Denis McDonough
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.

In the Press:
  • "A New Bipartisan Bill Aims to Reform the Presidential Transition Process" Government Executive (July 22, 2022)
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Workshops and Panels

  • "Political Transformation in Southeast Asia with Nhu Truong, Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Maggie Shum, and Megan Ryan", The Channel, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) (December 20, 2022).
  • "Taiwan-Hong Kong (dis)connection: physical and digital social movements in HK and Taiwan", Taiwan Studies Programme, University of Nottingham (May 19, 2022).
  • "Voice After Exit: How Transnational Ties Shape Hong Kong Americans’ Political Engagement and Voting Behavior”, Hong Kong Studies Initiative, University of British Columbia (December 11, 2021).
  • "A Global Theory of Change for Participatory Budgeting: What We Know and What's Next”, People Powered University webinar (November 16, 2021)
  • “People’s Power and Resistance in Northeast and Southeast Asia”, 2021 Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSEAS) conference (October 23, 2021).
  • "Year of Cultures without Borders”, University of Kentucky’s College of Arts & Sciences (October 7, 2021).
  • "Making Hong Kong China" at Liu Institute of Asia and Asian Studies (September 14, 2021)
  • "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) 
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