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Emerson Niou, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Emerson Niou
Contact Info:
Office Location:  406 Perkins Library
Office Phone:  +1 919 660 4307
Email Address:  
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/~niou

Teaching (Fall 2008):

Education:

PhD, University of Texas, Austin, 1987
B.A., National Taiwan University, 1981
Specialties:

International Relations
Comparative Politics
Methods
Research Interests: Game Theory, International Relations, and Chinese Politics

Current projects: nonseparable preferences in politics, strategic ambiguity, local self-governance, calculus of voting, security stability in the Taiwan Strait

Emerson Niou is Professor of Political Science at Duke University and, from 2004-06, Professor of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the co-author of The Balance of Power, Cambridge University Press, 1989. His recent publications include: "The Return of the Luddites,” with Peter Ordeshook, International Security, October 1999; “Strategic Voting under Plurality and Runoff Rules,” Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2001; “A Theory of Economic Sanctions and Issue Linkage,” with Dean Lacy, Journal of Politics, 2004; “Understanding Taiwan Independence and Its Policy Implications,” Asian Survey, July 2004; “Term Limits as a Response to Incumbency Advantage,” with Kongpin Chen, Journal of Politics, May 2005. His current projects include studies of institutions and reforms in China, security balance in the Taiwan Strait, and calculus of voting.

Areas of Interest:

China
Taiwan

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Brett Benson and Emerson Niou, Economic Interdependence and Peace: A Game-Theoretic Analysis, Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 7 no. 1 (Spring, 2007), pp. 35-59  [abs].
  2. E. Niou, China Factor in Taiwan’s Electoral Politics, in Democratization in Taiwan: Challenges in Transformation, edited by Jim Meernik and Philip Paolino (Accepted, forthcoming), Ashgate Publishing .
  3. Dean Lacy, Emerson Niou, and Philip Paolino, Measuring Preferences for Divided Government (Submitted, 2007) .
  4. Daniel Kselman and Emerson Niou, Strategic Voting in Plurality Elections (Submitted, 2007)  [abs].
  5. Emerson Niou, On Cultivating the Spirit of Self-Governance, in Prospects of Grassroots Democracy in China, edited by Yong Xu and Zengyang Xu (2007) (This article is written in Chinese..) .