Publication

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2018, "China’s Vaccine Scandal 2018: Pharmaceutical Companies Pacing Heightened Regulatory Risks," with CHEN Gang, East Asian Institute Background Brief No. 1386.

• Circulated to Singapore's cabinet ministers and senior civil servants, available for reference at National Library, Singapore and National University of Singapore Library

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Working Paper

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2020, "Project Finance Loans, Political Institutions, and Regime Survival" (with Jean Hong, HKUST and Ilker Karaca, Iowa State Univ.)

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2020,  "The Dilemma of Legitimation: How the Prolongment of Dictator's Tenure Hastens the Dictatorship's Demise"

• Paper presented at the WPSA Virtual Conference, May 21-23, 2020

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2019, "Fact-checking the Steele Dossier and its Networks: A First Stab at Extracting Network Data from Unstructured Texts," with Keller, Franziska, Chi Kiu Cheung, Kana Ono, Anupras Malhotra, Anish Krishna Vallapuram, and Xinyuan Zhang.

• Paper presented at the MPSA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 4-7, 2019

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Work in Progress​

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"State Visits and International Get-togethers" (with Franziska Keller, HKUST)

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"Personalisation of Power and Economic Development: Evidence from China"

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"Militarisation"

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"Personalised Power, Cult of Personality, and Leader Survival"

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"Foreign Support, Repression and Protest in Dictatorships"