Profile

Min-Hua Huang is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Fu Hu Center for East Asia Democratization Studies, College of Social Science, National Taiwan University. Min-Hua Huang received his PhD from the University of Michigan. His research and teaching interests are in survey studies, democratization, Asian politics, public diplomacy, and multivariate statistical analysis. Before joining the National Taiwan University, Professor Huang served as an assistant professor in National Chengchi University (2004-2005), National Taiwan University (2005-2008), Texas A&M University (2008-2012), and a senior fellow at Shanghai Jiaotong University (2012-2013). He was also a visiting fellow at the Center for East Asia Policy Studies, the Brookings Institution (2014-2015). He has worked with Asian Barometer Survey, a leading cross-national public opinion project in Asia, and takes in charge of field operations in 15 societies since 2004. His publications have appeared in Asian Survey, Social Indicators Research, Journal of Contemporary China, Electoral Studies, Journal of East Asian Studies, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journal of Democracy, International Review of Sociology, International Political Science Review, Asian Perspective, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Korean Journal of International Studies, Global Asia, Cass Journal of Political Science, Asian Politics & Policy, and various Taiwanese political science journals. He is the author of the book, The Ideas of Statistics: Theory and Application (Wu Nan, 2017, in Chinese), which emphasizes the historical dimension of the modern statistical paradigm in higher education. 

Selected Publication

Book

• Huang, Min-Hua. (2017). The Ideas of Statistics: Theory and Application. Taipei: Wu-Nan. (In Chinese)

Book Chapter

• Chu, Yun-han, Min-Hua Huang, Jie Lu. 2019. “The Competition Over Soft Power Between China and the United States: An Analysis of How East Asians View a Rising China.” In Huiyao Wang and Lu Miao (Eds.) Handbook on China and Globalization. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 258-276.

Journal Articles

• Cao, Yongrong, Hsin-Che Wu, and Min-Hua Huang. 2020. “Cognitive Explanations of Indian Perception toward China.” Asian Survey, forthcoming
• Weatherall, Mark, Min-Hua Huang, Taehee Whang. 2018. “The Malaise of Globalization in East Asia: Income Inequality, Perceived State Capacity, and Anti-Establishment Attitudes” Korean Journal of International Studies 16(1): 1-27.
• Huang, Min-Hua, Ching-Hsuan Su, Han Ruixia and Mark Weatherall. 2017. “How Does Rising Internet Usage Affect Political Participation in East Asia? Explaining Divergent Effects” Asian Perspective 41(4): 527-558.
• Huang, Min-Hua, Lei Xuchuan, Taehee Whang. 2017. “The Internet, Social Capital, and Civic Engagement in Asia” Social Indicators Research 132(2): 559-578.
• Huang, Min-Hua, Yun-han Chu. 2015. “The Sway of Geopolitics, Economic Interdependence and Cultural Identity: Why are Some Asians More Favorable toward China's Rise than Others?” Journal of Contemporary China 24(93): 421-441.
• Huang, Min-Hua, Yun-han Chu, Yu-tzung Chang. 2013. “Popular Understandings of Democracy and Regime Legitimacy in East Asia” Taiwan Journal of Democracy 9(1): 147-171.
• Chu, Yun-Han, Min-Hua Huang. 2010. “Solving an Asian Puzzle. Journal of Democracy” 21(4): 114-122.
• Huang, Min-Hua, Yu-Tzung Chang, Yun-Han Chu. 2008. “Identifying Sources of Democratic Legitimacy: A Multilevel Analysis” Electoral Studies 27(3): 45-62.
• Huang, Min-Hua. 2005. “Islam and Democracy: A Global Perspective” Taiwan Journal of Democracy 1(2): 109-37.

Research Interests

• Comparative Politics: Cross-national Public Opinion Research, Democratization, Asian Politics, China Politics, Middle East Politics, Religion and Politics
• Political Methodology: Truncated Regression, Maximum Likelihood, Numerical Analysis, Multilevel Analysis, Measurement Theory

Teaching

Quantitative Methods for Social Inquiry

This course introduces basic quantitative methods for social science and establishes a broad understanding of statistical knowledge and its application. The scope of the course covers history of statistics, descriptive statistics, logic of causal inference, survey research, data collection and analysis, and various statistical models commonly applied in social science. While this course does not require knowledge of econometrics, some lectures will proceed with matrix algebra. Throughout this course, students will be trained in familiar with the statistical programs such as SPSS or STATA. Weekly homework assignments will be given in learning how to apply different statistical methods to political science research. Except for weekly assignments, students are expected to take mid-term and final exams and finish an empirical research paper. They are expected to know the logic of scientific study and be capable of conducting a political scientific research project with a minimal level of quantitative skill.

List of Textbooks

• Stockemer, Daniel. 2019. Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences: A Practical Introduction with Examples in SPSS and Stata. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
• Hancock, Gregory R. and Ralph O. Mueller. 2010. The Reviewer’s Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences. London: Routledge.
• William H. Greene. 2011. Econometric Analysis: International Edition, 7th Edition. London: Prentice Hall.