Research

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Articles

王奕婷 (2025) 台灣國會政黨如何論述中國議題？(Framing China in legislative speeches: An analysis of Taiwan’s main parties) 人文及社會科學集刊 37 forthcoming.
蘇慶軒、郭俊毅、王奕婷 (2024). 台灣威權統治末期調查局對政治案件的偵訊策略. (The Investigation Bureau’s Interrogational Strategies for the Political Cases during the Late Authoritarian Rule Period in Taiwan) 臺灣民主季刊 21(4): 81-118.
Howard Liu, Ching-Hsuan Su, and Yi-Ting Wang. (2024). The Law or the Career? Autocratic Judiciaries, Strategic Sentencing, and Political Repression. Comparative Political Studies, 00104140241290212.
Yi-ting Wang (2023) Supporting democracy when other democracies prosper?, Democratization. 30(7): 1240-1263.
蘇慶軒、王奕婷、劉昊 (2021). 司法鎮壓:「揣摩上意」在台灣威權時期軍事審判中的影響. (Judicialization of Repression: The Effect of “Second-Guessing” in the Military Trials during the Taiwan Authoritarian Rule) 東吳政治學報 39(2): 55-93.
Yi-ting Wang. (2021). Legislative strength and democratic satisfaction in presidential democracies. Electoral Studies. 71.
Szu-Ning Ping, Yi-ting Wang, Wen-Yang Chang. (2022). The effects of China’s development projects on political accountability. British Journal of Political Science. 52(1): 65-84
Yi-ting Wang. (2020) Clientelistic parties and satisfaction with democracy Party Politics. 26(4): 402-414.
Kyle L. Marquardt, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, and Yi-ting Wang (2019). What makes experts reliable? Expert reliability and the estimation of latent traits. Research & Politics. 6(4): 1-8.
Yi-ting Wang, Valeriya Mechkova & Frida Andersson. (2019) Does Democracy or Good Governance Enhance Health? New Empirical Evidence 1900-2012. Political Research Quarterly. 72(3): 554-569.
Yi-ting Wang & Kiril Kolev. (2019) Ethnic group inequality, partisan networks and political clientelism. Political Research Quarterly. 72(2): 329-341
Patrik Lindenfors, Fredrik Jansson, Yi-ting Wang & Staffan I. Lindberg. (2018) Investigating sequences in ordinal data: A new approach with adapted evolutionary models Political Science Research and Methods, 6(3): 449-466.
Yi-ting Wang, Patrik Lindenfors, Aksel Sundström, Fredrik Jansson, Staffan I. Lindberg & Pamela Paxton. (2017) Women’s rights in democratic transitions: A global sequence analysis 1900–2012 European Journal of Political Research, 56(4): 735–756.
Aksel Sundström, Pamela Paxton, Yi-ting Wang & Staffan I. Lindberg. (2017) Women’s political empowerment: A new global index, 1900-2012 World Development, 94: 321-335.
Eitan Tzelgov & Yi-ting Wang. (2016) Party ideology and clientelistic linkage Electoral Studies, 44: 374–387.
Kent Freeze, Herbert Kitschelt, Kiril Kolev & Yi-ting Wang. (2009) Measuring democratic accountability: An initial report on an emerging data set. Revista de Ciencia Política, 29(3): 741-773.

Book Chapters

Yuko Kasuya & Yi-ting Wang (2024). East and Southeast Asia. In A. Croissant & L. Tomini (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Autocratization. Routledge. 562-672.
Daniel Pemstein, Kyle L. Marquardt, Brigitte Seim, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang, Farhad Miri. (2020) The measurement model and reliability. In Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 66-89.
Herbert Kitschelt & Yi-ting Wang. (2014) Programmatic parties and party systems: Opportunities and constraints. In Politics Meets Policies: The Emergence of Programmatic Political Parties. Stockholm, Sweden: International IDEA. 43-74.

Selected Working Papers

“Clientelism Dynamics: Does Reducing Inequality Discourage Patronage?.” (with Kiril Kolev)
“Measuring Legislative Powers.” (with Eitan Tzelgov and M. Steven Fish)
“The V-Dem Measurement Model: Latent Variable Analysis for Cross-National and Cross-Temporal Expert-Coded Data” (with Daniel Pemstein, Kyle L. Marquardt, Eitan Tzelgov, and Farhad Miri)
“Evaluating and Improving Item Response Theory Models for Cross-National Expert Surveys.” (with Daniel Pemstein and Eitan Tzelgov)
“Electoral Incentives, Party Organization, and the Power of Legislative Committees.”
“The Power of Legislative Committees: A Multidimensional Analysis.”