Wei-Ting Yen
Biographic Data
| ID | 76205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wei-Ting Yen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wei-Ting |
| FAMILY NAME | Yen |
| SIGNATURE | YEN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Franklin & Marshall College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4153-678X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How cultural world views moderate policy framing on Universal Basic Income
Universal Basic Income (UBI) has gained global attention as a potential policy response to the AI revolution, yet public support remains divided. While existing research highlights the role of political predisposition in shaping attitudes towards UBI, such explanations rely on the presence of partisan/ideological cues. In contexts where UBI is not yet politicized, ideological alignment may offer limited explanatory power. This article examines ho…
Leveraging Coordination Capacity: Medical Resource Mobilization in Asia’s Developmental States During Covid-19
The developmental states of Asia—South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore—have been widely recognized for their successful COVID-19 governance. However, despite these successes, a closer examination reveals significant differences in their strategic responses and the medical resources mobilized. This article explains the different governance approaches taken by the three developmental states. We argue that the pre-crisis industrial coordination capacit…
Territory and solidarity: Evidence from Taiwan's pension policy reform
A well-defined territorial boundary is essential for the design and implementation of social policies, as it defines the scope of the political community. In states where territorial boundaries are contested, the contours of sovereignty remains ambiguous. This paper studies the effects of contested perceptions of territory on welfare states. The paper distinguishes between institutional solidarity (support for formal welfare arrangements) and int…
Why do individuals in democratic societies support stringent policies? A narrative policy framework analysis
Why do individuals in democratic societies voluntarily request and support stringent policies? What factors contribute to variations in support for different restrictive measures among citizens? This study examines the micro-level impact of the securitisation narrative on individuals’ voluntary support for stringent policies within a democratic context, using the narrative policy framework. Based on evidence from a conjoint experiment conducted i…
The Impact of Racial Descriptive Norms on Vaccination against Covid-19
Racial disparities have persisted in COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death rates in the United States. Differences in vaccination hesitancy have also emerged by race: communities of color and, particularly, African Americans have been more reluctant to get a vaccine to prevent COVID-19. Can racial descriptive norms provide a tool to increase confidence and reduce hesitancy within the US public? We conducted a survey experiment at the end…
Fighting the Pandemic with 'Shields: Successful Covid-19 Securitization and Mask Policy in Taiwan
Facemasks have been proven an effective non-pharmaceutical measure against coronavirus disease-19. Against the backdrop of global mask shortages, Taiwan distinguished herself from other countries in that Taiwan took a whole-of-nation approach to masks and mobilized the society quickly to become self-sufficient in masks. This paper argues that successful virus securitization as a threat to national security was what enabled Taiwan to effectively m…
The Current Landscape of Taiwan Studies Using ijts Keywords
This report collects all the keywords that have appeared in the International Journal of Taiwan Studies since its first issue in February 2018. The authors use these keywords and resulting word clouds to reflect on the current state of Taiwan-related research. We find that publications are still heavily dominated by cross-Strait-related topics and that, despite the aspiration of putting Taiwan in a comparative perspective, the results have so far…
Shaky social insurance foundation: Income instability and pension participation in South Korea
Objective Many welfare states in young democracies feature low effective social insurance coverage, especially in old‐age pension. What explains the ineffective coverage? This article shows individual income instability is a microlevel factor contributing to low effective coverage. Method The article used 15 waves of the Korean Labor Income Panel Study and constructed a fine‐grained individual‐level income instability measure, which was used to p…
The imperative of state capacity in public health crisis: Asia's early Covid‐19 policy responses
Preexisting political institutions influence governments' responses to public health crises in different ways, creating national variations. This article investigates how state capacity, a country's fundamental ability to organize bureaucracy and allocate societal resources, affects the timing and configuration of governments' COVID‐19 policy responses. Through comparative case study analysis of five of China's neighboring countries early in the …
Crafting Compliance Regime under Covid‐19: Using Taiwan's Quarantine Policy as a Case Study
One year after the World Health Organization declared COVID‐19 a global pandemic, governments around the world adopt similar practices in containing the COVID‐19 spread. Nevertheless, variation exists in the level of policy compliance, which directly contribute to policy success/failure across countries. As the pandemic continues, pandemic fatigue also decreases the public’s willingness to comply. Increasing policy compliance during the remainder…
Is Trading With China Different? Self-Interest, National Pride, and Trade Preferences
Despite increasing economic integrations with China, worries exist in China's neighboring countries about China's implicit political intention. Do people view trading with China differently? In this article, we incorporate the political context of trade agreements by showing that trade with partners who come with political costs is less likely to be supported. Using a nationally representative survey experiment from Taiwan, we find that trading w…
Taiwan’s Covid‐19 Management: Developmental State, Digital Governance, and State‐Society Synergy
This article examines the reasons behind Taiwan’s effective COVID‐19 response. While some have argued that Taiwan’s success with COVID‐19 is based on its experience with SARS, I argue that we should not attribute Taiwan’s effective response solely to its SARS experience. The country’s success mainly lies in three factors: (1) reliance on the mask policy as the main disease prevention measure and the ability to quickly expand mask production capac…
Who Supports the Sunflower Movement? An Examination of Nationalist Sentiments
The Sunflower Movement-an occupation of the Legislative Yuan (the Congress) for 24 days-was an unprecedented moment in the history of Taiwan. We examine the social foundation of the Movement and explore an important factor that has long been missing in the literature of Taiwanese politics: nationalism. We divide nationalism into three dimensions: national attachment, national chauvinism, and feelings toward other countries. Using original survey …
The imperative of state capacity in public health crisis: Asia's early Covid‐19 policy responses
Preexisting political institutions influence governments' responses to public health crises in different ways, creating national variations. This article investigates how state capacity, a country's fundamental ability to organize bureaucracy and allocate societal resources, affects the timing and configuration of governments' COVID‐19 policy responses. Through comparative case study analysis of five of China's neighboring countries early in the …
Who Supports the Sunflower Movement? An Examination of Nationalist Sentiments
The Sunflower Movement-an occupation of the Legislative Yuan (the Congress) for 24 days-was an unprecedented moment in the history of Taiwan. We examine the social foundation of the Movement and explore an important factor that has long been missing in the literature of Taiwanese politics: nationalism. We divide nationalism into three dimensions: national attachment, national chauvinism, and feelings toward other countries. Using original survey …
Taiwan’s Covid‐19 Management: Developmental State, Digital Governance, and State‐Society Synergy
This article examines the reasons behind Taiwan’s effective COVID‐19 response. While some have argued that Taiwan’s success with COVID‐19 is based on its experience with SARS, I argue that we should not attribute Taiwan’s effective response solely to its SARS experience. The country’s success mainly lies in three factors: (1) reliance on the mask policy as the main disease prevention measure and the ability to quickly expand mask production capac…
Fighting the Pandemic with 'Shields: Successful Covid-19 Securitization and Mask Policy in Taiwan
Facemasks have been proven an effective non-pharmaceutical measure against coronavirus disease-19. Against the backdrop of global mask shortages, Taiwan distinguished herself from other countries in that Taiwan took a whole-of-nation approach to masks and mobilized the society quickly to become self-sufficient in masks. This paper argues that successful virus securitization as a threat to national security was what enabled Taiwan to effectively m…
Territory and solidarity: Evidence from Taiwan's pension policy reform
A well-defined territorial boundary is essential for the design and implementation of social policies, as it defines the scope of the political community. In states where territorial boundaries are contested, the contours of sovereignty remains ambiguous. This paper studies the effects of contested perceptions of territory on welfare states. The paper distinguishes between institutional solidarity (support for formal welfare arrangements) and int…
Shaky social insurance foundation: Income instability and pension participation in South Korea
Objective Many welfare states in young democracies feature low effective social insurance coverage, especially in old‐age pension. What explains the ineffective coverage? This article shows individual income instability is a microlevel factor contributing to low effective coverage. Method The article used 15 waves of the Korean Labor Income Panel Study and constructed a fine‐grained individual‐level income instability measure, which was used to p…
Is Trading With China Different? Self-Interest, National Pride, and Trade Preferences
Despite increasing economic integrations with China, worries exist in China's neighboring countries about China's implicit political intention. Do people view trading with China differently? In this article, we incorporate the political context of trade agreements by showing that trade with partners who come with political costs is less likely to be supported. Using a nationally representative survey experiment from Taiwan, we find that trading w…
Who Supports the Sunflower Movement? An Examination of Nationalist Sentiments
The Sunflower Movement-an occupation of the Legislative Yuan (the Congress) for 24 days-was an unprecedented moment in the history of Taiwan. We examine the social foundation of the Movement and explore an important factor that has long been missing in the literature of Taiwanese politics: nationalism. We divide nationalism into three dimensions: national attachment, national chauvinism, and feelings toward other countries. Using original survey …
Taiwan’s Covid‐19 Management: Developmental State, Digital Governance, and State‐Society Synergy
This article examines the reasons behind Taiwan’s effective COVID‐19 response. While some have argued that Taiwan’s success with COVID‐19 is based on its experience with SARS, I argue that we should not attribute Taiwan’s effective response solely to its SARS experience. The country’s success mainly lies in three factors: (1) reliance on the mask policy as the main disease prevention measure and the ability to quickly expand mask production capac…
Crafting Compliance Regime under Covid‐19: Using Taiwan's Quarantine Policy as a Case Study
One year after the World Health Organization declared COVID‐19 a global pandemic, governments around the world adopt similar practices in containing the COVID‐19 spread. Nevertheless, variation exists in the level of policy compliance, which directly contribute to policy success/failure across countries. As the pandemic continues, pandemic fatigue also decreases the public’s willingness to comply. Increasing policy compliance during the remainder…
Is Trading With China Different? Self-Interest, National Pride, and Trade Preferences
Despite increasing economic integrations with China, worries exist in China's neighboring countries about China's implicit political intention. Do people view trading with China differently? In this article, we incorporate the political context of trade agreements by showing that trade with partners who come with political costs is less likely to be supported. Using a nationally representative survey experiment from Taiwan, we find that trading w…
The Current Landscape of Taiwan Studies Using ijts Keywords
This report collects all the keywords that have appeared in the International Journal of Taiwan Studies since its first issue in February 2018. The authors use these keywords and resulting word clouds to reflect on the current state of Taiwan-related research. We find that publications are still heavily dominated by cross-Strait-related topics and that, despite the aspiration of putting Taiwan in a comparative perspective, the results have so far…
Shaky social insurance foundation: Income instability and pension participation in South Korea
Objective Many welfare states in young democracies feature low effective social insurance coverage, especially in old‐age pension. What explains the ineffective coverage? This article shows individual income instability is a microlevel factor contributing to low effective coverage. Method The article used 15 waves of the Korean Labor Income Panel Study and constructed a fine‐grained individual‐level income instability measure, which was used to p…
The imperative of state capacity in public health crisis: Asia's early Covid‐19 policy responses
Preexisting political institutions influence governments' responses to public health crises in different ways, creating national variations. This article investigates how state capacity, a country's fundamental ability to organize bureaucracy and allocate societal resources, affects the timing and configuration of governments' COVID‐19 policy responses. Through comparative case study analysis of five of China's neighboring countries early in the …
The Impact of Racial Descriptive Norms on Vaccination against Covid-19
Racial disparities have persisted in COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death rates in the United States. Differences in vaccination hesitancy have also emerged by race: communities of color and, particularly, African Americans have been more reluctant to get a vaccine to prevent COVID-19. Can racial descriptive norms provide a tool to increase confidence and reduce hesitancy within the US public? We conducted a survey experiment at the end…
Fighting the Pandemic with 'Shields: Successful Covid-19 Securitization and Mask Policy in Taiwan
Facemasks have been proven an effective non-pharmaceutical measure against coronavirus disease-19. Against the backdrop of global mask shortages, Taiwan distinguished herself from other countries in that Taiwan took a whole-of-nation approach to masks and mobilized the society quickly to become self-sufficient in masks. This paper argues that successful virus securitization as a threat to national security was what enabled Taiwan to effectively m…
Why do individuals in democratic societies support stringent policies? A narrative policy framework analysis
Why do individuals in democratic societies voluntarily request and support stringent policies? What factors contribute to variations in support for different restrictive measures among citizens? This study examines the micro-level impact of the securitisation narrative on individuals’ voluntary support for stringent policies within a democratic context, using the narrative policy framework. Based on evidence from a conjoint experiment conducted i…
Leveraging Coordination Capacity: Medical Resource Mobilization in Asia’s Developmental States During Covid-19
The developmental states of Asia—South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore—have been widely recognized for their successful COVID-19 governance. However, despite these successes, a closer examination reveals significant differences in their strategic responses and the medical resources mobilized. This article explains the different governance approaches taken by the three developmental states. We argue that the pre-crisis industrial coordination capacit…
Territory and solidarity: Evidence from Taiwan's pension policy reform
A well-defined territorial boundary is essential for the design and implementation of social policies, as it defines the scope of the political community. In states where territorial boundaries are contested, the contours of sovereignty remains ambiguous. This paper studies the effects of contested perceptions of territory on welfare states. The paper distinguishes between institutional solidarity (support for formal welfare arrangements) and int…
How cultural world views moderate policy framing on Universal Basic Income
Universal Basic Income (UBI) has gained global attention as a potential policy response to the AI revolution, yet public support remains divided. While existing research highlights the role of political predisposition in shaping attitudes towards UBI, such explanations rely on the presence of partisan/ideological cues. In contexts where UBI is not yet politicized, ideological alignment may offer limited explanatory power. This article examines ho…
Political science (10 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (5 works) · Disease (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Law (4 works)