Dr. Chen Fang-yu is an assistant professor of Political Science at Soochow University (Taipei, Taiwan). His research interests include authoritarian politics, party politics, political behavior in new democracies, and the trilateral relationship between the United States, China, and Taiwan. Dr. Chen holds a PhD in political science from Michigan State University (2020), where his dissertation topic was “Ruling Party Institutionalization in Autocracies.” His research has been published in a number of journals, to include Political Research Quarterly, Journal of East Asian Studies, Journal of Asian and African Studies, The Social Science Journal, and Asian Politics & Policy.
