Published Research

Recent peer-reviewed research from current faculty

David Buckley:

• David Buckley, Steven Brooke, and Bryce Kleinsteuber "How populists engage religion: mechanisms and evidence from the Philippines" Democratization 2022
• David Buckley, “Religious Influence and Climate Politics in Duterte’s Philippines: Opportunity Lost?” in Climate Politics and the Power of Religion, ed. Evan Berry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022).
• Steven Brooke, David Buckey, Clarissa David, and Ronald Mendoza. Forthcoming. “Religious. Protection from Populist Violence: The Catholic Church and the Philippine Drug War,” American Journal of Political Science
• Steven Brooke and David Buckley, “Parish-Based Responses to the Philippine Drug War,” Program on Governance and Local Development Working Paper Series, Fall 2021.
• David Buckley, Jason Gainous, and Kevin Wagner. 2021. “Is Religion the Opiate of the Digital Masses? Religious Authority, Social Media, and Protest,” Information, Communication, and Society: 1-17.
• David Buckley. Faithful to Secularism: The Religious of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines, New York City: Columbia University Press. 2017.
• David Buckley and Clyde Wilcox. 2017. “Religious Change, Political Incentives, and Explaining Religious-Secular Relations in the United States and the Philippines,” Politics and Religion, 10: 543-566.

Lisa Björkman:

• Lisa Björkman Bombay Brokers Duke University Press 2021
• Lisa Björkman and Patton Burchett. 2021. “The Value of Tantra: Markets, Modernity, and Mubai’s Master of Mantra,” Journal of American Academy of Religion, 89(3): 885-908.
• Lisa Björkman and Chitra Venkataramani. 2019. “Mediating Mumbai: Etthnographic Explorations of Urban Linkage,” International Planning Studies, 24(1): 81-95.
• Lisa Björkman and Jeffrey Witsoe. “Money and Votes: Following Flows through Mumbai and Bihar” In Costs of Democracy: Political Finance in India, edited by Devesh Kapur and Milan Vaishnav, 153-200. Oxford University Press. 2018.
• Lisa Björkman. 2018. “The Engineer and the Plunmber: Mediating Mumbai’s Conflicting Infrastructural Imaginaries,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 42(2): 276-294.
• Lisa Björkman Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai Duke University Press, 2015

Shiping Hua:

• Shiping Hua. 2020. “China’s Fifth Constitutional Amendment,” Asian Survey, 60(6): 1172-1193.

Charles Ziegler:

• Charles Ziegler. “Ch 15. US Policy and Central Asia,” In Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia, edited by Rico Issacs and Erica Marat. Oxfordshire: Routledge. 2021.
• Charles Ziegler. 2021. “A Crisis of Diverging Perspectives: U.S. Russian Relations and the Security Dilemma,” Texas National Security Review, 4(1): 12-33.
• Charles Zielger. 2020. “Sanctions in US-Russia Relations,” Vestnik RUDN, 20(3): 504-520.
• Charles Ziegler. “Ideology, Identity and Security in Eurasia: Evolving Regionalist or Transregionalist Agenda?” in Transregionalism, Regional Integration and Regional Projects Across Europe and Asia, edited by Alexei Voskressensky and Boglarka Koller, 183-200 Lanham: Lexington Books. 2019.
• Charles Ziegler. 2018. “International Dimensions of Electoral Processes: Russia, the USA, and the 2016 Elections,” International Politics, 50: 557-574.
• Charles Ziegler. 2018. “Russian Diplomacy: Challenging the West,” Diplomacy and International Relations, 19: 74-89.
• Jason Gainous, Kevin Wagner, Charles Ziegler. 2018. “Digital Media and Political Opposition in Authoritarian Systems: Russia’s 2011 and 2016 Duma Elections,” Democratization, 25(2): 209-226. 

Recent peer-reviewed research from former affiliates

Jason Abbott:

• Kevin Wagner, Jason Gainous, and Jason Abbott. 2021. “Gender Differences in Critical Digital Political Engagement in China: The Consequences for Protest Attitudes,” Social Science Computer Review, 39(2): 211-225.
• Jason Gainous, Jason Abbott, and Kevin Wagner. 2020 "Active vs. Passive Social Media Engagement with Critical Information: Protest Behavior in Two Asian Countries" The International Journal of Press/Politics, 26(2): 464-483.
• Jason Gainous, Jason Abbott, and Kevin Wagner. 2019. “Traditional versus Internet Media in a Restricted Information Environment: How Trust in the Medium Matters,” Political Behavior, 41: 401-422.
• Jason Abbott. 2019. “Of Grass Mud Horses and Rice Bunnies: Chinese Internet Users Challenge Beijing’s Censorship and Internet Controls,” Asian Politics & Policy 11(1): 162-168.

• Jason Abbott. “Ch. 27 The Politics of the Internet and Social Media in Asia: Mobilization, Participation, and Retrenchment?,” In Routledge Handbook of Politics in Asia, edited by Shiping Hua, 390-414. Oxfordshire: Routledge. 2018.
• Jason Abbott, Meagan Floyd, and Michael Zeller "Living Without Recognition: A Case Study of Burmese Refugees in Malaysia" Center for Asian Democracy Working Paper (2014)

Jason Gainous:

• Buckley, David T., Jason Gainous, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2021. “Is Religion the Opiate of the Digital Masses? Religious Authority, Social Media, and Protest.” Forthcoming at Information, Communication and Society.
• Abbott, Jason P., Jason Gainous, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2021. “Social Media and Protest Behavior in a Restrictive Traditional Media Environment: The Case of the Philippines.” Forthcoming at the International Journal of Communication.
• Wagner, Kevin M., Jason Gainous, and Jason P. Abbott. 2021. “Gender Differences in Critical Digital Political Engagement in China: The Consequences for Protest Attitudes.” Social Science Computer Review 39 (2): 211-225.
• Gainous, Jason, Jason P. Abbott, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2021. “Active vs. Passive Social Media Engagement with Critical Information: Protest Behavior in Two Asian Countries.” International Journal of Press/Politics 26 (2): 464-483.
• Gainous, Jason, Jason P. Abbott, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2019. “Traditional Versus Internet Media in a Restricted Information Environment: How Trust in the Medium Matters.” Political Behavior 41 (2): 401-422.
• Gainous, Jason, Kevin M. Wagner, and Jason P. Abbott. 2015. “Civic Disobedience: Does Internet Use Stimulate Political Unrest in East-Asia?” Journal of Information Technology & Politics 12 (2): 219-236.

John Givens:

• John Givens “From Power Balancing to a Dominant Faction in Xi Jinping’s China” (with Eun Choi and Andrew MacDonald), China Quarterly, 2021.
• John Givens “On Their Best Behavior? Foreign Plaintiffs in Chinese Administrative Litigation” Open Judicial Politics: An Empirical Reader. Oregon State University Press, 2020.
• John Givens “Squeezing the Same Old Stone: Suing the Rural Chinese” (with Andrew MacDonald) China Currents, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2018.
• John Givens “Strategic Censorship in a Hybrid Authoritarian Regime? Differential Bias in Malaysia’s Online and Print Media” (with Jason Abbott) Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2015: 455-478.
• John Givens “Sleeping with Dragons? Politically Embedded Lawyers Suing the Chinese State” Wisconsin International Law Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2014.
• John Givens, Jason Abbott, and Andrew MacDonald “New Social Media and (Electronic) Democratization in East and Southeast Asia: China and Malaysia Compared” Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2013.