Accomplishments: Department of Political Science
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by US Embassy in Singapore and Singapore Press Club to give a talk on misinformation and US-China relations on August 14. In this talk, Wang shared his recent findings on the effect of misinformation and fact-checks, and illustrated the conflict between the freedom of speech and…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published an article, "Who are the non-separable voters?," in Electoral Studies. In this article, Wang examines three competing hypotheses on the formation of non-separable preferences through a poll result in the 2021 Taiwan referendum. In this referendum, Taiwanese voters were motivated to form…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited to publish a book chapter, "Qualitative and Quantitative Changes of Taiwan Studies in the political science discipline (1987-2022)", in the book Political Science: The State of the Discipline: 20th Anniversary of IPSAS, edited by Wu et al and published by Academia Sinica, Taiwan. In the…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science)'s life story as a political scientist at UNLV is covered by Global Views Monthly, the largest magazine in Taiwan. In the article, Wang explains his decision to switch his undergraduate major from electrical engineering to political science and shares tips on finding interesting research ideas…
Christian Jensen, Nadia Eldemerdash (both Political Science), and assistant teaching professor Steven Landis (Political Science, University of Notre Dame) have recently published new research in the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe that examines the relationship between vulnerability to climate change, political institutions and…
Kenneth Miller and Tanner Bates (both Political Science) published "PACs and January 6th: Campaign Finance and Objections to the Electoral College Vote Count" in Research & Politics, where they show that more business-friendly House Republicans are more supportive of democratic norms compared to members who receive more of their…
Sofia Takhtadjian and Issac Hernandez-Alcaraz (both from The Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West) were selected to represent Nevada as part of the 2023 Western Governors' Leadership Institute, where they attended the Western Governors' Association's 2023 Annual Meeting in Boulder, Colorado. The two participated in the institute’s…
Jared Oestman (Political Science) and Rick K. Wilson (Political Science, Rice University) published "The Effect of Biased Peacekeepers on Building Trust" in the Journal of Experimental Political Science. The authors used a laboratory experiment to evaluate the extent to which impartiality matters in efforts by third-party peacekeepers to…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) presented an invited paper titled, "Public Opinion on National Defense in Taiwan: One Year after the Ukraine Crisis," in the Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region 2023 Annual Conference at Hoover Institute, Stanford University on May 22-23, 2023. In this article, he analyzed…
David Fott (Political Science) published "Philosophy, Politics, and Rhetoric in Cicero's On the Orator" in the latest issue of Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. Several scholars maintain that Cicero regards philosophy and rhetoric as coexisting in ultimate harmony. Fott argues instead that Cicero subtly demonstrates that…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Mediation Analysis of Conspiratorial Thinking and Anti-Expert Sentiments on Vaccine Willingness," in Health Psychology, along with 120 coauthors. This article analyzes a survey across 137 countries and 40 languages (n = 15740) on political trust and vaccine…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Why does Taiwan Identity Decline?" in Journal of Asian and African Studies. This article exploits 53 waves of survey in Taiwan to examine four competing theories on the decline of Taiwan identity. Empirical evidence supports the hypothesis of issue…