Tsung-Han Tsai
Biographic Data
| ID | 388736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tsung-Han Tsai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tsung-Han |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsai |
| SIGNATURE | TSAI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Chengchi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2783-553X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reexamining confucianism and democratic support: A guardianship perspective
A History of the Bloomsbury Group
A History of the Bloomsbury Group ranges more widely across the Bloomsbury group's interdisciplinary activities and international networks than any previous volume. From innovations in the literary and visual arts to interventions in politics and economic policy, core members including Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, and John Maynard Keynes are explored in relation …
Issue Polarization and Opinion Expression: A Latent Variable Approach to Nonresponse and Misreporting
In the extant literature on survey research, studies on expression of opinion mainly focus on psychological factors such as respondents’ perceived support for opinions or desirable attitudes based on the spiral of silence theory. In this article, although we develop our arguments based on the logic behind the spiral of silence theory, we emphasize the relationship between objective climate of opinion and opinion expression. Following the spiral o…
The Effects of Perceived Pledge Performance and the Third-Person Effect on Voting Behavior
In this article, we examine the effects of voters’ beliefs in politicians’ pledge performance on the consideration of election pledges when voting with a special focus on the role of the third-person effect. Specifically, we argue that third-person perception, a perception gap between presumed media influence on others and influence on oneself, reinforces the consideration of election pledges through the mechanisms of expectation confirmation or …
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach
Much of what we know about public support for democracy is based on survey questions about “democracy,” a term that varies in meaning across countries and likely prompts uncritically supportive responses. This paper proposes a new approach to measuring support for democracy. We develop a battery of 17 survey questions that cover all eight components of liberal democracy as defined by the V-Dem project. We then ask respondents from 19 national sam…
Democratic Values and Democratic Support in Rapidly Consolidated Democracies: The Case of Taiwan, 1995-2020
Most of the extant research on the relationship between democratic values and democratic support examine the issue from the perspective of the evolution of democratic culture and institutional learning. These studies conclude that it takes time for people to understand the essence of democracy and to support democracy. We argue that a certain value orientation is crucial to democratic support at some stages of democratic transition. To empiricall…
When “Don’t Know” Indicates Nonignorable Missingness: Using the Estimation of Political Knowledge as an Example
The conventional procedure for measuring political knowledge is treating nonresponses such as “don’t know” as incorrect responses and counting the number of “correct” responses. In recent times, increasing attention has been paid to partial knowledge hidden within incorrect and nonresponses. This article explores partial knowledge indicated by incorrect and nonresponses and considers nonresponses as nonignorable missingness. We propose a model th…
Explaining change in independence–unification views in Taiwan: A within-between model
Independence–unification (IU) views have been profoundly influential in Taiwan politics. This study uses the rally ‘round the flag effect to explain the increase in support for Taiwan independence after President Tsai Ing-wen rejected China's ‘one country, two systems' proposal. Taking advantage of within-individual differences in panel data, we can estimate the probability of IU views given a set of certain characteristics compared with other va…
Twenty-First-Century Readings of E.M. Forster's 'Maurice'
This is the first book-length study of Forster’s posthumously published novel. Nine essays focus exclusively on Maurice and its dynamic afterlives in literature, film and new media during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Begun in 1913 and revised over almost 50 years, Maurice became a defining text in Forster’s work and a canonical example of queer fiction. Yet the critical tendency to read Maurice primarily as a ‘revelation’ of Forster’…
The Influence of the President and Government Coalition on Roll-Call Voting in Brazil, 2003–2006
In Brazil’s legislative process, political exchanges between the government and legislature is an essential feature. This article focuses on the role of the president and political parties in Brazil’s national legislative process. Because nonideological factors influence voting, roll calls do not suffice for estimation of legislators’ policy preferences. In this article, we derive a spatial model of voting in which voting behavior is induced by b…
Antipartyism and Public Opinion toward Presidential Unilateral Actions: The Case of Taiwan in 2017
In this article, we examine how antipartyism influences the public’s preferences for the tools of presidential power by focusing on the case of Taiwan, which is a president-parliamentary system. We distinguish two types of antipartyism: general antipartyism and reactive antipartyism. The former refers to the general perception of political parties, whereas the latter involves the functions of parties in modern democracy. According to the analysis…
Different Immigrants, Same Attitudes? Making Sense of the Association Between Two Immigrant Groups
Objective Previous studies of public attitudes toward immigration have been set in economically developed areas such as the United States and the countries of Western Europe, implicitly applying the term “immigrants” solely to blue‐collar laborers. In this article, we extend the discussion to Taiwan, a newly democratic and nearly developed country in East Asia. Methods Our study investigates public attitudes toward immigrants with different occup…
Music as Queering in E. M. Forster’s ‘Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson’
At the end of his biography, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1934), E. M. Forster claims that he has not fulfilled the task of producing a work that ‘would resemble’ his deceased friend: ‘ And perhaps it only could be done through music.’ More than simply a metaphor for the modern self in a newly conceptualized form of biographical writing, music, this article argues, plays a significant role in the biography’s representation of Dickinson’s homosexu…
A balance between candidate- and party-centric representation under mixed-member systems: The evidence from voter behavior in Taiwan
Modeling Guessing Components in the Measurement of Political Knowledge
Due to the crucial role of political knowledge in democratic participation, the measurement of political knowledge has been a major concern in the discipline of political science. Common formats used for political knowledge questions include multiple-choice items and open-ended identification questions. The conventional wisdom holds that multiple-choice items induce guessing behavior, which leads to underestimated item-difficulty parameters and b…
A Bayesian Approach to Dynamic Panel Models with Endogenous Rarely Changing Variables
Whether democratic and non-democratic regimes perform differently in social provision policy is an important issue to social scientists and policy makers. As political regimes are rarely changing, their long-term or dynamic effects on the outcome are of concern to researchers when they evaluate how political regimes affect social policy. However, estimating the dynamic effects of rarely changing variables in the analysis of time-series cross-sect…
Interactions in Generalized Linear Models: Theoretical Issues and an Application to Personal Vote-Earning Attributes
There is some confusion in political science, and the social sciences in general, about the meaning and interpretation of interaction effects in models with non-interval, non-normal outcome variables. Often these terms are casually thrown into a model specification without observing that their presence fundamentally changes the interpretation of the resulting coefficients. This article explains the conditional nature of reported coefficients in m…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach
Much of what we know about public support for democracy is based on survey questions about “democracy,” a term that varies in meaning across countries and likely prompts uncritically supportive responses. This paper proposes a new approach to measuring support for democracy. We develop a battery of 17 survey questions that cover all eight components of liberal democracy as defined by the V-Dem project. We then ask respondents from 19 national sam…
Interactions in Generalized Linear Models: Theoretical Issues and an Application to Personal Vote-Earning Attributes
There is some confusion in political science, and the social sciences in general, about the meaning and interpretation of interaction effects in models with non-interval, non-normal outcome variables. Often these terms are casually thrown into a model specification without observing that their presence fundamentally changes the interpretation of the resulting coefficients. This article explains the conditional nature of reported coefficients in m…
Different Immigrants, Same Attitudes? Making Sense of the Association Between Two Immigrant Groups
Objective Previous studies of public attitudes toward immigration have been set in economically developed areas such as the United States and the countries of Western Europe, implicitly applying the term “immigrants” solely to blue‐collar laborers. In this article, we extend the discussion to Taiwan, a newly democratic and nearly developed country in East Asia. Methods Our study investigates public attitudes toward immigrants with different occup…
When “Don’t Know” Indicates Nonignorable Missingness: Using the Estimation of Political Knowledge as an Example
The conventional procedure for measuring political knowledge is treating nonresponses such as “don’t know” as incorrect responses and counting the number of “correct” responses. In recent times, increasing attention has been paid to partial knowledge hidden within incorrect and nonresponses. This article explores partial knowledge indicated by incorrect and nonresponses and considers nonresponses as nonignorable missingness. We propose a model th…
Modeling Guessing Components in the Measurement of Political Knowledge
Due to the crucial role of political knowledge in democratic participation, the measurement of political knowledge has been a major concern in the discipline of political science. Common formats used for political knowledge questions include multiple-choice items and open-ended identification questions. The conventional wisdom holds that multiple-choice items induce guessing behavior, which leads to underestimated item-difficulty parameters and b…
Interactions in Generalized Linear Models: Theoretical Issues and an Application to Personal Vote-Earning Attributes
There is some confusion in political science, and the social sciences in general, about the meaning and interpretation of interaction effects in models with non-interval, non-normal outcome variables. Often these terms are casually thrown into a model specification without observing that their presence fundamentally changes the interpretation of the resulting coefficients. This article explains the conditional nature of reported coefficients in m…
A Bayesian Approach to Dynamic Panel Models with Endogenous Rarely Changing Variables
Whether democratic and non-democratic regimes perform differently in social provision policy is an important issue to social scientists and policy makers. As political regimes are rarely changing, their long-term or dynamic effects on the outcome are of concern to researchers when they evaluate how political regimes affect social policy. However, estimating the dynamic effects of rarely changing variables in the analysis of time-series cross-sect…
A balance between candidate- and party-centric representation under mixed-member systems: The evidence from voter behavior in Taiwan
Modeling Guessing Components in the Measurement of Political Knowledge
Due to the crucial role of political knowledge in democratic participation, the measurement of political knowledge has been a major concern in the discipline of political science. Common formats used for political knowledge questions include multiple-choice items and open-ended identification questions. The conventional wisdom holds that multiple-choice items induce guessing behavior, which leads to underestimated item-difficulty parameters and b…
Music as Queering in E. M. Forster’s ‘Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson’
At the end of his biography, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1934), E. M. Forster claims that he has not fulfilled the task of producing a work that ‘would resemble’ his deceased friend: ‘ And perhaps it only could be done through music.’ More than simply a metaphor for the modern self in a newly conceptualized form of biographical writing, music, this article argues, plays a significant role in the biography’s representation of Dickinson’s homosexu…
Antipartyism and Public Opinion toward Presidential Unilateral Actions: The Case of Taiwan in 2017
In this article, we examine how antipartyism influences the public’s preferences for the tools of presidential power by focusing on the case of Taiwan, which is a president-parliamentary system. We distinguish two types of antipartyism: general antipartyism and reactive antipartyism. The former refers to the general perception of political parties, whereas the latter involves the functions of parties in modern democracy. According to the analysis…
Different Immigrants, Same Attitudes? Making Sense of the Association Between Two Immigrant Groups
Objective Previous studies of public attitudes toward immigration have been set in economically developed areas such as the United States and the countries of Western Europe, implicitly applying the term “immigrants” solely to blue‐collar laborers. In this article, we extend the discussion to Taiwan, a newly democratic and nearly developed country in East Asia. Methods Our study investigates public attitudes toward immigrants with different occup…
Twenty-First-Century Readings of E.M. Forster's 'Maurice'
This is the first book-length study of Forster’s posthumously published novel. Nine essays focus exclusively on Maurice and its dynamic afterlives in literature, film and new media during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Begun in 1913 and revised over almost 50 years, Maurice became a defining text in Forster’s work and a canonical example of queer fiction. Yet the critical tendency to read Maurice primarily as a ‘revelation’ of Forster’…
The Influence of the President and Government Coalition on Roll-Call Voting in Brazil, 2003–2006
In Brazil’s legislative process, political exchanges between the government and legislature is an essential feature. This article focuses on the role of the president and political parties in Brazil’s national legislative process. Because nonideological factors influence voting, roll calls do not suffice for estimation of legislators’ policy preferences. In this article, we derive a spatial model of voting in which voting behavior is induced by b…
Explaining change in independence–unification views in Taiwan: A within-between model
Independence–unification (IU) views have been profoundly influential in Taiwan politics. This study uses the rally ‘round the flag effect to explain the increase in support for Taiwan independence after President Tsai Ing-wen rejected China's ‘one country, two systems' proposal. Taking advantage of within-individual differences in panel data, we can estimate the probability of IU views given a set of certain characteristics compared with other va…
When “Don’t Know” Indicates Nonignorable Missingness: Using the Estimation of Political Knowledge as an Example
The conventional procedure for measuring political knowledge is treating nonresponses such as “don’t know” as incorrect responses and counting the number of “correct” responses. In recent times, increasing attention has been paid to partial knowledge hidden within incorrect and nonresponses. This article explores partial knowledge indicated by incorrect and nonresponses and considers nonresponses as nonignorable missingness. We propose a model th…
A History of the Bloomsbury Group
A History of the Bloomsbury Group ranges more widely across the Bloomsbury group's interdisciplinary activities and international networks than any previous volume. From innovations in the literary and visual arts to interventions in politics and economic policy, core members including Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, and John Maynard Keynes are explored in relation …
Issue Polarization and Opinion Expression: A Latent Variable Approach to Nonresponse and Misreporting
In the extant literature on survey research, studies on expression of opinion mainly focus on psychological factors such as respondents’ perceived support for opinions or desirable attitudes based on the spiral of silence theory. In this article, although we develop our arguments based on the logic behind the spiral of silence theory, we emphasize the relationship between objective climate of opinion and opinion expression. Following the spiral o…
The Effects of Perceived Pledge Performance and the Third-Person Effect on Voting Behavior
In this article, we examine the effects of voters’ beliefs in politicians’ pledge performance on the consideration of election pledges when voting with a special focus on the role of the third-person effect. Specifically, we argue that third-person perception, a perception gap between presumed media influence on others and influence on oneself, reinforces the consideration of election pledges through the mechanisms of expectation confirmation or …
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach
Much of what we know about public support for democracy is based on survey questions about “democracy,” a term that varies in meaning across countries and likely prompts uncritically supportive responses. This paper proposes a new approach to measuring support for democracy. We develop a battery of 17 survey questions that cover all eight components of liberal democracy as defined by the V-Dem project. We then ask respondents from 19 national sam…
Democratic Values and Democratic Support in Rapidly Consolidated Democracies: The Case of Taiwan, 1995-2020
Most of the extant research on the relationship between democratic values and democratic support examine the issue from the perspective of the evolution of democratic culture and institutional learning. These studies conclude that it takes time for people to understand the essence of democracy and to support democracy. We argue that a certain value orientation is crucial to democratic support at some stages of democratic transition. To empiricall…
Reexamining confucianism and democratic support: A guardianship perspective
Politics (12 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Mathematics (5 works)