Fang-Yu Chen is a PhD candidate in political science at Michigan State University. His dissertation, which is titled “When the People Matter to the Dictator: Ruling Party Institutionalization in East Asian Authoritarian Regimes,” will compare the ruling parties of former dictators in Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia, and the Philippines. His research interests include democratization, income inequality, nationalism, and political behavior. After Taiwan’s Sunflower Student Movement in 2014, Fang-Yu and several colleagues co-founded the Mandarin version of the Washington Post’s “Monkey Cage” blog, which they named “Who Governs Taiwan” (http://whogovernstw.org).
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