Publications by topic
Digital Media and Government Accountability
"Barriers for Crowd’s Impact in Crowdsourced Policymaking: Civic Data Overload and Filter Hierarchy" with Tanja Aitamurto, in International Public Management Journal, 22:1, 99-126, 2019. PDF
“Concealing Corruption: How Chinese Officials Distort Upward Reporting of Online Grievances” with Jennifer Pan in American Political Science Review, 112(3), 602-620, 2018. PDF
"Open Governance Cities: A New Paradigm for Understanding Urban Collaboration” with Albert Meijer and Miriam Lips (forthcoming) in Smart Cities Smart Governance Research Practice Consortium Edited Book Project.
“The Value of Crowdsourcing in Public Policymaking: Epistemic, Democratic and Economic Value” with Tanja Aitamurto in The Theory and Practice of Legislation 5(1), 55-72, 2017. PDF
Data Science Methods
“Data Science and Political Economy: Application to Financial Regulatory Structure” with Sharyn O’Halloran, Sameer Maskey, Geraldine McAllister and David Park in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2(7), 87-109, 2016. PDF
“Civic CrowdAnalytics: Making Sense of Crowdsourced Civic Input with Big Data Tools.” with Tanja Aitamurto, Jorge Galli, Luis Santana and Ahmed Cherif in Academic MindTrek Proceedings, 86-94, Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. PDF
“Data Science and Political Economy: Application to Financial Regulatory Structure” with Sharyn O’Halloran, Sameer Maskey, Geraldine McAllister and David Park in Big Data and Political Economy. Edited by Howard Rosenthal, New York: Russell Sage Press, 2015.
“Big Data and the Regulation of Financial Markets” with Sharyn O’Halloran, Sameer Maskey, Geraldine McAllister and David Park in Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining Proceedings: 1118-1124. Editors: Jian Pei, Fabrizio Silvestri, Jie Tang. Paris, France, 2015.
Information Technology and AI
“The Impact of Augmented Reality on Art Engagement: Liking, Impression of Learning, and Distraction” with Tanja Aitamurto et al. in Chen JYC, Fragomeni G. (Eds.) in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, LNCS, vol. 10910, 1-19. Springer, Heidelberg, 2018. PDF
Other coverage
"How Digital Contributions from citizens can help U.S. Public Officials Govern Effectively", in Scholars Strategy Network, 2019.
Working Papers
*all papers are available upon request.
Public Deliberation
“Who Can Deliberate? Deliberative Reasoning in Ghana’s First Deliberative Poll on Food, Environment and Public Health"
“Enhancing Accountability in a Non-electoral Environment: A Case of Citizen Participatory Budgeting in China” with Muhua Lin (revise and resubmit)
“Mobilizing the Mini-Publics: The Causal Impact of Deliberation on Civic Participation Using Panel Data” with Shelley Boulianne and David Kahane (under review) PDF
“Authoritarian Deliberation? Examining Reasoning in Macau's Deliberative Poll” with Samuel Chang
“Conversation Structure and Quality of Political Discourse: Evidence from Reddit" with Lucas Alexander DiSanto Sanchez. PDF
Digital Media and Accountability
“Is Social Media an Effective Platform for Constituency Communication? A Conjoint Survey Experiment with Elected Officials in the United States” with Nathan Lee and William Marble (under review) PDF
“Data overload, filtering and ‘analysis paralysis’ disable online engagement" with Jim Macnamara
"The Role of Authoritarian Responsiveness in Competition over the Spoils of Patronage" with Haemin Jee and Jennifer Pan
Public Deliberation
“Who Can Deliberate? Deliberative Reasoning in Ghana’s First Deliberative Poll on Food, Environment and Public Health"
“Enhancing Accountability in a Non-electoral Environment: A Case of Citizen Participatory Budgeting in China” with Muhua Lin (revise and resubmit)
“Mobilizing the Mini-Publics: The Causal Impact of Deliberation on Civic Participation Using Panel Data” with Shelley Boulianne and David Kahane (under review) PDF
“Authoritarian Deliberation? Examining Reasoning in Macau's Deliberative Poll” with Samuel Chang
“Conversation Structure and Quality of Political Discourse: Evidence from Reddit" with Lucas Alexander DiSanto Sanchez. PDF
Digital Media and Accountability
“Is Social Media an Effective Platform for Constituency Communication? A Conjoint Survey Experiment with Elected Officials in the United States” with Nathan Lee and William Marble (under review) PDF
“Data overload, filtering and ‘analysis paralysis’ disable online engagement" with Jim Macnamara
"The Role of Authoritarian Responsiveness in Competition over the Spoils of Patronage" with Haemin Jee and Jennifer Pan
Research Projects
Patronage Network and Government Responsiveness in China. Joint with Jennifer Pan and Haemin Jee.
Commenting on FCC. Joint with Daniel E. Ho and Rachel Liao.
The Impact of Voting Rules on Turnout. Joint with Justin Grimmer and Andrew Hall.
CrowdLaw Innovation in Latin American Cities. Joint with Beth Noveck, Dinorah Pedraza and Victoria Alsina.
Commenting on FCC. Joint with Daniel E. Ho and Rachel Liao.
The Impact of Voting Rules on Turnout. Joint with Justin Grimmer and Andrew Hall.
CrowdLaw Innovation in Latin American Cities. Joint with Beth Noveck, Dinorah Pedraza and Victoria Alsina.