Kin-Man Wan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4098784 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kin-Man Wan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kin-Man |
| FAMILY NAME | Wan |
| SIGNATURE | WAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0073-865X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pour (tear) gas on fire? Violent confrontations and anti-government backlash
How do voters in a developed economy react to political violence at the ballot box? Most of the current literature suggests that a social movement turning violent dampens its support. To this end, we examine the effect of violent clashes and indiscriminate state repression on Hong Kong's 2019 municipal election. Using original geocoded data, we proxy violence and repression by the frequency of police shooting tear gas rounds at protesters. Despit…
Group-Based Income Inequality in Hong Kong
Despite a notoriously high level of income inequality, public discussion about the issue in Hong Kong has been largely limited to overall trends. This is partially due to a lack of fine-grained data, especially on socially relevant inequality dimensions. This study introduces the group-based inequality data set, which provides indices on inequality within and between groups based on census surveys from 1991 to 2016. Compared with past immigrants,…
Democracy and Mass Skepticism of Science
Since the Age of Enlightenment, many thinkers and philosophers have viewed democracy and science as two aspects of modernity that reinforce each other. This article highlights a tension between the two by arguing that certain aspects of contemporary democracy may aggravate the mass public's anti-intellectual tendency and thus potentially hinder scientific progress. The authors analyze a new global survey of public opinion on science using empiric…
Fighting Covid-19 in Hong Kong
The Political Economy of Football
Fighting Covid-19 in Hong Kong
Pour (tear) gas on fire? Violent confrontations and anti-government backlash
How do voters in a developed economy react to political violence at the ballot box? Most of the current literature suggests that a social movement turning violent dampens its support. To this end, we examine the effect of violent clashes and indiscriminate state repression on Hong Kong's 2019 municipal election. Using original geocoded data, we proxy violence and repression by the frequency of police shooting tear gas rounds at protesters. Despit…
Fighting Covid-19 in Hong Kong
The Political Economy of Football
Democracy and Mass Skepticism of Science
Since the Age of Enlightenment, many thinkers and philosophers have viewed democracy and science as two aspects of modernity that reinforce each other. This article highlights a tension between the two by arguing that certain aspects of contemporary democracy may aggravate the mass public's anti-intellectual tendency and thus potentially hinder scientific progress. The authors analyze a new global survey of public opinion on science using empiric…
Pour (tear) gas on fire? Violent confrontations and anti-government backlash
How do voters in a developed economy react to political violence at the ballot box? Most of the current literature suggests that a social movement turning violent dampens its support. To this end, we examine the effect of violent clashes and indiscriminate state repression on Hong Kong's 2019 municipal election. Using original geocoded data, we proxy violence and repression by the frequency of police shooting tear gas rounds at protesters. Despit…
Group-Based Income Inequality in Hong Kong
Despite a notoriously high level of income inequality, public discussion about the issue in Hong Kong has been largely limited to overall trends. This is partially due to a lack of fine-grained data, especially on socially relevant inequality dimensions. This study introduces the group-based inequality data set, which provides indices on inequality within and between groups based on census surveys from 1991 to 2016. Compared with past immigrants,…
Economics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic inequality (2 works)