Ching-Hsing Wang Hobby School of Public Affairs University of Houston McElhinney Hall Room 306 3623 Cullen Boulevard Houston, TX 77204-5021 Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Education 2013 Ph. D. Political Science, University of Houston 2011 M.A. Political Science, University of Houston 2007 M.A. Political Science, National Chengchi University, Taiwan 2001 B.A. Political Science, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Current Position • Postdoctoral Fellow, Hobby School of Public Affairs, Universtiy of Houston, September 2014- present. Research Interests Public opinion, political behavior, political institutions, political psychology, Asian politics, and research methods. Publications Peer reviewed journal • Wang, Ching-Hsing, Dennis Lu-Chung Weng, and Vincent Wei-cheng Wang. “Does Candidate Nomination in Districts Increase Party Votes of Small Parties? Evidence from the 2016 Taiwan Legislative Elections.” Japanese Journal of Political Science Accepted. • Wang, Ching-Hsing, Dennis Lu-Chung Weng, Laura Barnstead, and Garrett Dumond. “Disrespect for Human Rights and Contentious Participation: Evidence from China.” Journal of Chinese Political Science Forthcoming. • Wang, Ching-Hsing. “Gender Differences in the Effect of Personality Traits on Party Identification in the United States.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy Forthcoming. • Wang, Ching-Hsing, Dennis Lu-Chung Weng, and Hyun-Jin Cha. 2017. “Personality Traits and Voter Turnout in South Korea: The Mediation Argument.” Japanese Journal of Political Science 18(3): 426-445. - 1 - • Wang, Ching-Hsing and Dennis Lu-Chung Weng. 2017. “The Effects of Civic Consciousness and Civil Disobedience on Support for and Participation in Contentious Politics.” Japanese Journal of Political Science 18(2): 313-335. • Wang, Ching-Hsing. 2016. “Personality Traits, Political Attitudes and Vote Choice: Evidence from the United States.” Electoral Studies 44: 26-34. • Wang, Ching-Hsing. 2016 “Choice Preference, Civic Duty and Voter Turnout.” Journal of Political Science 44: 31-57. • Wang, Ching-Hsing. 2016. “Political Trust, Civic Duty and Voter Turnout: The Mediation Argument.” The Social Science Journal 53(3): 291-300. • Wang, Ching-Hsing. 2016. “Government Performance, Corruption and Political Trust in East Asia.” Social Science Quarterly 97(2): 211-231. • Granato, Jim, Cong Huang, Kwok Wai Wan, Ching-Hsing Wang, and M. C. Sunny Wong. 2015. “EITM: An Assessment with an Application to Economic Voting.” Electoral Studies 40: 372- 393. • Wang, Ching-Hsing. 2015. “A Deeper Look at the Relationship between Political Knowledge and Political Participation: Evidence from Taiwan Presidential and Legislative Elections.” Asian Journal of Political Science 23(3): 397-419. • Wang, Ching-Hsing. 2015. “The Effects of Information and Predisposition on Individual Responses to Hypothetical Survey Questions.” Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research 2(2): 71-102. • Wang, Ching-Hsing. 2015. “Social Networks, Interpersonal Trust, and Support for Democracy in East Asia.” International Journal of Social Science Studies 3(2): 1-10. • Wang, Ching-Hsing. 2014. “The Effects of Party Fractionalization and Party Polarization on Democracy.” Party Politics 20(5): 687-699. • Wang, Ching-Hsing. 2014. “Gender Differences in the Effects of Personality Traits on Voter Turnout.” Electoral Studies 34: 167-176. • Wang, Ching-Hsing. 2013. “Why Do People Vote? Rationality or Emotion.” International Political Science Review 34(5): 483-501. • Wang, Ching-Hsing. 2012. “A Study of Causal Order: Party Identification and Attitude toward the Independence-Unification Issue in Taiwan.” Issues & Studies 48(4): 145-169. • Wang, Ching-Hsing. 2009. “Analysis of Legislators’ Law-Making and Constituency Service: Continuity and Change After Party Turnover in the Year 2000.” Taiwanese Political Science Review 13(2): 113-169 (written in Chinese). • Wang, Ching-Hsing, and T. Y. Wang. 2007. “The Effects of Political Participation on Political Efficacy: An Analysis of Taiwan’s 2004 Presidential Election.” Taiwanese Political Science Review 11(1): 69-107 (written in Chinese). - 2 - • Wang, Ching-Hsing, and Tien-Long Shun. 2005. “An Analysis of Influential Factors of People’s Evaluation of Taiwan’s democracy.” Taiwan Democracy Quarterly 2(3): 55-80 (written in Chinese). Book Chapters • Dennis Lu-Chung Weng and Ching-Hsing Wang. 2017. “Life Cycle Effects.” in Fathali M. Moghaddam (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Behavior. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. • Wang, Ching-Hsing and Taofang Huang. 2009. “The Electorate’s Voting Participation.” in Lu- huei Chen, Ching-hsin Yu and Chi Huang (eds.), 2008 Presidential Election: the Critical Election of the Second Party Turnover. Taipei: Wu Nan Press (written in Chinese). Book Reviews • Ching-Hsing Wang. 2017. “Review of Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context: Taiwan, Japan, and Beyond, Nathan F. Batto, Chi Huang, Alexander C. Tan, and Gary W. Cox.” American Journal of Chinese Studies 24(1): 64-66. Teaching Experience • Master of Public Policy Program, University of Houston . POLC 6314: Statistical Methods for Policy Research Ⅰ (co-teaching) (Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017). POLC 6315: Statistical Methods for Policy Research Ⅱ (Summer 2017). POLC 6315: Statistical Methods for Policy Research Ⅱ (co-teaching) (Spring 2016, Spring 2017). POLC 6316: Statistical Methods for Policy Research Ⅲ (co-teaching) (Fall 2016, Fall 2017). • Department of Social Sciences, Lone Star College – North Harris . GOVT 2305: Federal Government (Summer 2014). GOVT 2306: Texas Government (Summer 2014). Honors and Awards • 2017. The Postdoctoral Travel Award, University of Houston. • 2015. The Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scholar Development, Election Study Center, National Chengchi University. • 2015. Artinian Travel Award, Southern Political Science Association. • 2014. The third prize in the Mirador Open Data Competition. - 3 - • 2013 (2013 spring). Doctoral Student Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston. • 2013. Prestage-Cook Travel Award, Southern Political Science Association. • 2013. Conference funding, Department of Political Science, University of Houston. • 2012 (2012 fall). Doctoral Student Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston. • 2012 (2012 spring). Doctoral Student Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston. • 2011 (2011 fall). Doctoral Student Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston. • 2011. Conference funding, Department of Political Science, University of Houston. • 2011 (2011 spring). Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston. • 2011. Funding for Winter Political Methodology Workshop, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. • 2010 (2010 fall). Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston. • 2010 (2010 summer). Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston. • 2010 (2010 spring). Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston. • 2009 (2009 fall). Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston. • 2009 (2009 summer). Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston. • 2009-2010. Studying Abroad Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan). • 2009 (2008 spring). Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston. • 2008 (2008 fall). Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston. • 2008. The outstanding administrative staff award in academic year 2007-2008, National Chengchi University. • 2005. Fellowship of the Department of Political Science, National Chengchi University. • 2005. Taiwan delegate of Harvard Project for Asia and International Relations (HPAIR), Harvard University and University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan. • 2004. Taiwan delegate of the visiting mission of Japan and Taiwan Youths, Interchange Association, Japan. Methodological Workshops and Training • 2014. EITM Summer Institute, Hobby Center for Public Policy at the University of Houston, Houston. • 2014 Spring. Course audit: Experimental Design (Professor Rick K. Wilson). Department of Political Science at Rice University, Houston. • 2013. EITM Summer Institute, Hobby Center for Public Policy at the University of Houston, Houston. • 2012. EITM Summer Institute, Hobby Center for Public Policy at the University of Houston, Houston. - 4 - • 2011. Summer Statistics Workshops, “Structural Equation Modeling,” Department of Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University, College Station. • 2011. Winter Political Methodology Workshop, “A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Statistical Modeling,” Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University, College Station. • 2006. Conflict Management Workshop, National Committee on United States-China Relations, San Diego (U.S. and financial support from U.S Department of State). • 2005. Categorical Data Analysis in the C.S.R Workshop on Survey Research Methods, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. • 2005. Summer Camp of Quantitative Methodology in Political Science, Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. • 2004. Summer Camp of Quantitative Methodology in Political Science, Institute of Political Science Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Academic Employment • Research staff, Hobby Center for Public Policy, University of Houston, January 2014-August 2014 • Adjunct, Department of Social Sciences, Lone Star College – North Harris, June 2014- August 2014. • Research assistant, Hobby Center for Public Policy, University of Houston (September 2013-