I study how automation reshapes governance by changing the way governments produce data, exercise discretion, and shape public trust. My research focuses on environmental governance in China. I also work on causal inference and survey methodology. [CV]
Working papers
When Automation Builds Trust: Information Credibility and Authoritarian Rule
Getting the Counterfactual Right in Survey-Timing Designs
with Yusaku Horiuchi, Jieun Oh, and Yuki Shiraito
Book manuscript
Automated: Why Governments Bind Themselves to Machines
Publications
Co-opting Automation: How Technology Reorganizes Political Discretion in China
World Politics, 79(3), forthcoming (July 2027)
Why the Average Treatment Effect for the Overlap Population (ATO) Matters for Natural Experiments
with Kevin M. Quinn
Journal of Law and Empirical Analysis, forthcoming
What to Observe When Assuming Selection on Observables
with Kevin M. Quinn, Lee Epstein, and Andrew D. Martin
Political Analysis, 34(1): 1-22, 2026 [code]
Where Are the Missing Dead? How Metrics Management Mitigates Official Data Misreporting in China
Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 4(2): 231-258, 2023 [paper]
Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Conjoint Analysis
with Yuki Shiraito
Political Analysis, 31(3): 380-395, 2023 [code]
The Clash of Traditional Values: Opposition to Female Monarchs
with Kenneth Mori McElwain and Yuki Shiraito
European Political Science Review, 15(2): 291-310, 2023
Socialist Models of Development
with Andrew Kilmister
In Poverty and Development: Into the 21st Century, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2021