About Me

I am a doctoral student in Political Science at National Taiwan University and project coordinator for the Civil Defense and Democracy Resilience Project at Emory University. I study how governments use courts, law, and control over information to manage political conflict, and how citizens judge those institutions afterward. My interests span judicial politics, legal mobilization, contentious politics, state–society relations, and democratization.

My current work asks what survives political pressure in a frontline democracy, and I use Taiwan to answer it. One project asks what happens when a government sues its own citizens to push a contested policy through, and whether people who learn about that strategy trust the courts less. A second uses a preregistered survey experiment to separate two things that “transparency” usually runs together: what the public and the media can see, and what empowered institutions can monitor. Under external threat, citizens accept limits on the first far more readily than they give up the second. I am also studying how transitional justice shapes trust in democratic institutions, and how beliefs about who deserves what set the limits of democratic solidarity.

My collaborative work runs on two tracks. At Emory, I coordinate the Civil Defense and Democracy Resilience Project, which studies civil defense and public resilience under sustained security pressure. Separately, I write with co-authors at UIUC and Academia Sinica on public support for economic coercion. I rely mainly on survey and field experiments, supported by archival research, interviews, and fieldwork.

I received my M.A. in Political Science from National Taiwan University and earned my B.A. in Political Science, with a minor in Law, from National Chung Cheng University.

For further information, please feel free to contact me at: d14322004@ntu.edu.tw