Research Projects

Publications

• "Redistributing Power: Land Reform, Elite Cooptation, and Grassroots Regime Institutions in Authoritarian Taiwan," Comparative Political Studies, online first (2024), https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140241237457

  • Replication files [link]

  • Additional dataset on Japanese colonial era township-level elites [link] (cite as Kevin Wei Luo and David Yu-ming Lin (2021), “Native elites under colonial Taiwan (1920- 1932): a dataset”)

• "Between Scylla and Charybdis: Land Reform and Revolutionary Agents under the Chinese Communist Regime," Studies in Comparative International Development, online first (2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-023-09393-0

Working Papers

• "Stability Maintenance, Preventive Repression, and Contentious Politics in China under Xi Jinping’s Rule" (with Lynette Ong)

• "Revolutionary Legacies and State Capacity: Revolutionary Mobilization and State Redistribution in Communist China"

• "Securing the Countryside: Varieties of Rural State Building in China, Vietnam, Taiwan, and South Korea during the Cold War"

Other Works in Progress

• State Building in the Early People’s Republic of China: a county-level dataset (with Jingyuan Qian)

• "Linkage, Threat, Crisis: International Legitimacy and Domestic Reform in Taiwan’s Authoritarian Legislature"

• "The Securitization of Domestic Governance in China: Society, Environment, and Culture"

Other Writings

• Book Review, Eyck Freymann, One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World. In American Journal of Chinese Studies 28, no.1 (April 2021) [link]

• "After Taiwan’s 2020 Elections: what’s in store for the political parties?" the Fairbank Center Blog, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University (February 2020) [link]

• Book Review, Ming-sho Ho, Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. In China Review International, Vol. 24, No. 3 (September 2019), reprinted in Storystudio.tw as "為什麼要佔領街頭?關於太陽花與雨傘運動的六個謎題" (in Chinese) [link] [中文連結]

• "Four Key Takeaways From Taiwan’s Recent Election Surprises" (with Fang-yu Chen), Monkey Cage blog, The Washington Post (December 2018) [link]

• A Roundtable Review of Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence, by Sheena Greitens (Cambridge University Press, 2016), SinoNK.com (October 2017) [link]