Profile

Yun-han Chu is a Distinguished Research Fellow of Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica. He has been Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University since 1987. He also serves concurrently as President of Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. Professor Chu specializes in politics of Greater China, East Asian political economy, international political economy, and democratization. He has been the Director of Asian Barometer Survey, a regional network of survey on democracy, governance and development covering more than eighteen Asian countries. He also serves as Co-chair of the Executive Council of Global Barometer Surveys, the world’s largest social science survey research network. Professor Chu was past President of Chinese Association of Political Science (Taipei) in 2002-2004 and a member of the Council of American Political Science Association (2009-2011). In 2012, he was elected an Academician of Academia Sinica, the country’s highest academic honor, and in 2016 a Fellow of the World Academy of Science (TWAS). In 2015, he received Outstanding Achievement Award from his alma mater, the University of Minnesota, which is the highest honor conferred upon its alumni by the university. 

He currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Democracy, China Journal, China Review, Journal of Contemporary China, International Studies Perspectives, and Journal of East Asian Studies. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of seventeen books. Among his recent English publications are How East Asians View Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2008) Party Politics in East Asia: Citizens, Elections, and Democratic Development (Lynne Rienner, 2008), Democracy in East Asia: A New Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), Routledge Handbook of Democratization in East Asia (Routledge, 2017), and The Decline of Western-Centric World and the Emerging New Global Order (Routledge, 2020).

Selected Publication

Books

• The Decline of Western-Centric World and the Emerging New Global Order. Routledge, 2020.
• Routledge Handbook of Democratization in East Asia. Routledge, 2017.
• Democracy in East Asia: A New Century. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
• Party Politics in East Asia: Citizens, Elections, and Democratic Development. Lynne Rienner, 2008.
• How East Asians View Democracy. Columbia University Press, 2008.

Journal Articles

• Chu, Yun-han. 2013. “Coping with the Global Financial Crises: Institutional and Ideational Sources of Taiwan’s Economic Resiliency.” Journal of Contemporary China, 22(82): 649-668.
• Chu, Yun-han. 2013. “Sources of Regime Legitimacy and the Debate over the Chinese Model.” The China Review, 13(1): 1-42.
• Chang, Alex, Yun-han Chu, and Bridget Welsh. 2013. “Southeast Asia: Sources of Regime Support.” Journal of Democracy, 24(2): 150-164.
• Chu, Yun-han. 2012. “Sizing Up Taiwan’s Election.” Global Asia, 7(1).
• Chu, Yun-han. 2012. “China and East Asian Democracy: The Taiwan Factor,” Journal of Democracy, 23(1): 42-56.
• Chang, Yu-tzung, Yun-han Chu and Min-hua Huang. 2011. “Procedural Quality Only? Taiwanese Democracy Reconsidered,” International Political Science Review, 32(5): 598-619.
• Chu, Yun-han and Min-hua Huang. 2010. “Solving an Asian Puzzle.” Journal of Democracy, 21(4): 114-122.
• Bratton, Michael, Yun-han Chu, and Marta Lagos. 2010. “Who Votes? Implications for New Democracies.” Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 6(1): 107-136.
• Chu, Yun-han. 2010. “Taiwan and Hong Kong Re-embrace Each Other.” Hong Kong Journal 17. 
• Chu, Yun-han, Larry Diamond, Andrew Nathan, and Doh Chull Shin. 2009. “Asia's Challenged Democracies”, The Washington Quarterly, 32(1): 143-157.
• Chu, Yun-han, Michael Bratton, Sandeep Shastri, and Mark Tessler. 2008. “Public Opinion and Democratic Legitimacy”, Journal of Democracy, 19(2): 74-87.
• Huang, Min-hua, Yu-tzung Chang, and Yun-han Chu. 2008. “Identifying Sources of Democratic Legitimacy: A Multilevel Analysis”, Electoral Studies, 27(1): 45-62.
• Chu, Yun-han. 2008. “Taiwan in 2007: The Waiting Game”, Asian Survey, 48(1): 124-132.
• Chu, Yun-han and Andrew Nathan. 2007. “Seizing the Opportunity for Change in the Taiwan Strait”, The Washington Quarterly, 31(1): 77-91.
• Chang, Yu-tzung, Yun-han Chu, and Chong-min Park. 2007. “Authoritarian Nostalgia in East Asia,” Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 66-80.
• Chu, Yun-han and Min-hua Huang. 2007. “Partisanship and Citizen Politics in East Asia,” Journal of East Asian Studies, 7(2): 295-321.

Research Interests

• Methodology of Political Science
• International Political Economy
• East Asia Political Economy
• Democratization

Teaching