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Item A Comparative Study of the China Factor in Taiwan and Hong Kong Elections(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-05-20) Ho, Karl; Wong, Stan Hok-wui; Clarke, Harold D.; Lee, Kuan-Chen; Lee, WC; Ho, Karl; Clarke, Harold D.This chapter probes the economic dimension of the China factor in Taiwan and Hong Kong politics. We discuss how economic integration efforts affect elections and party competitions in smaller states neighboring China. Research on globalization suggests that freer international trade redistributes wealth among big and small states and reshapes local or regional political cleavages. Growing inequalities among and within these states could consequently reinforce localist identities and pro-independence movements. In the case of China, economic integration manifested in recent free trade treaties with Taiwan and Hong Kong coincides with the rise of localism and state-wide protests against further integration. In this study, we examine the micro-level connections between economic integration and political disintegration using new survey data about public perceptions of China in these societies. ©2018 Springer Nature Switzerland AGItem Chinese Residential Housing Policy Evaluation(2017-12) Zhang, Yingyuan; Scotch, Richard K.; Elliott, Euel; Kim, Dohyeong; Ho, KarlHousing policies have long been discussed in countries around the world. Every country should use a different type of policy to stabilize its housing market depending on its political system. In this paper, the core question is whether the government’s housing policies actually serve to control prices in China’s housing market as expected. Analysis in this vein is based on new housing market data which other researchers have not used before and employs different customized time series models. Until now, researchers have not been able to obtain very good data to measure such policy effects in China. Hence, one of the contributions of this paper is to evaluate policy effects using more accurate data measurements than had been previously available. This new housing market dataset can be divided into two parts, yearly data and monthly data. The dataset includes housing information from 39 big and medium size cities in China in the form of monthly panel data and from 35 big and medium size cities in China in the form of yearly panel data. The analytical results indicate that housing policies targeting housing prices did successfully control prices, especially in large cities such as Beijing.Item Confronting the Costs of Its past Success: Revisiting Taiwan's Post-Authoritarian Political and Economic Development(Wiley Periodicals) Clark, C.; Tan, A. C.; Ho, Karl; 2546153775047461550002 (Ho, K); Ho, KarlThe evolution of Taiwan's political economy seems paradoxical. From the 1960s to 1980s, Taiwan went through economic transformations that have been called an “economic miracle.” This was followed by a successful democratic transition from the late 1980s to mid-1990s that might be considered a “political miracle.” In the early 1990s, Taiwan could be regarded as a success story and a model for developing nations. Yet, Taiwan was soon to “enter troubled waters” marked by growing conflict and threat from China (PRC), fears about the “hollowing out” of its previously vaunted economy, and vicious polarization and gridlock in its domestic politics. We argue that many of the challenges facing Taiwan derive from unanticipated and unintended costs of its previous successes. In particular, what worked to promote successful economic and political development at one point later became counterproductive in the changed circumstances created by the country's rapid developmental trajectory. Our basic research questions, hence, are whether the challenges currently facing Taiwan's political economy can be explained by the country's past pattern of development and, if so, whether these linkages appear to be connected to success or failures in Taiwan's history. © 2018 Policy Studies OrganizationItem Three Essays on Hispanics: the Use of Spanish, Content Analysis and Social Network Analysis(2022-05-01T05:00:00.000Z) Gutierrez Mannix, Carlos Daniel; Ho, Karl; Kim, Dohyeong; Tiefelsdorf, Michael; Santoro, Lauren Ratliff; Gray, ThomasHispanic political representation continues to grow in the United States. Understanding how Hispanic politicians communicate is an important step in having a better picture of how Hispanic politicians operate in Congress. It also allows us to understand what lies behind policies that are most salient for this community. This research adds to our knowledge of how Hispanic Members of Congress communicate by focusing on their use of social media. To do so this research is divided into three main sections and uses original datasets created by the author. Specifically, this research uses Twitter data by the official Twitter Accounts of Hispanic Members of Congress. Using an Application Programming Interface, this research analyzes all tweets by these politicians. Using Content Analysis, in the first section of this dissertation, I explore what factors contribute to the use of Spanish by Hispanic Members of Congress. This section explores the cultural, historical, and political factors that can be enabled to better understand how language is used by minority populations such as the Hispanic. The second section of this research also uses Content Analysis. It focuses on analyzing the connection between the historical background of the three major subpopulations of Hispanics: Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Mexicans and their policy goals. This research shows that Hispanics should not be understood to be a homogenous population but rather a conglomeration of nations and cultures which Speak Spanish. The last section of this dissertation uses Social Network Analysis to understand what factors best explain the dynamics of communication between Hispanic Members of Congress. This last section presents compelling evidence that communication between Hispanic Members of Congress should be understood to respond to political factors.