Research Interests

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

Publication

• When voting turnout becomes contentious repertoire: how anti-ELAB protest overtook the 2019 District Council election in Hong Kong (Forthcoming, Japanese Journal of Political Science).
  

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

• Why Trouble Back Home Drove Hong Kongers to Trump? A Conjoint Experiment on Hong Kong American Voters (with Victoria Hui)
  
• "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" (with Omar Coronel)​
  

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Workshops and Panels

• "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) 

Ongoing Projects

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)

Trump Factors in Hong Kong and Taiwan

Co-investigator with Hans Tung, Robert Chung and Victoria 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.

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.

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.