ABOUT

My research interest includes authoritarian politics and research methods. I wrote some articles about Hong Kong elections and political selection in mainland China. My previous works appear in journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, China Quarterly, Electoral Studies, Journal of Peace Research, and Political Behavior.

UNIVERSITY University of St. Thomas
DEPARTMENT Department of International Studies & Modern Languages
PROFILE Google Scholar | Publons | ResearchGate
HOBBIES Python | R | Bootstrap | Dash
CV

RESEARCH

BOOK

Electoral Politics in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Protest, Patronage, and the Media (2015), Springer

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Waiman Lam, Ngok Ma, and Stan Hok-Wui Wong. Conditionally Accepted. "Legitimacy without Democracy? Sources of Diffuse Regime Support in Post-colonial Hong Kong"Journal of Asian and African Studies | Replication Files

Stan Hok-Wui Wong, Kelvin Chun-Man Chan, Karl Ho, and Harold D. Clarke. Accepted. "Does Loyalty Discourage Exit? Evidence from Post-2020 Hong Kong" Journal of Asian and African Studies | Replication Files

Mathew Wong and Stan Hok-Wui Wong. Forthcoming. "Income Inequality and Political Participation: A District-Level Analysis of Hong Kong Elections" Social Indicators Research

Stan Hok-Wui Wong and Kelvin Chun-Man Chan. 2021. "The Impact of Pre-Election Protests in Electoral Autocracies: The Case of Hong Kong’s Anti-ELAB Movement" Issues & Studies

Stan Hok-Wui Wong and Jiachen Liang. 2021. "Attraction or Distraction? Impacts of Pro-regime Social Media Comments on Chinese Netizens" Political Behavior

Ye Wang and Stan Hok-Wui Wong. 2021. "Electoral impacts of a failed uprising: Evidence from Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement" Electoral Studies

Stan Hok-Wui Wong and Jiachen Liang. 2021. "Dubious until officially censored: Effects of online censorship exposure on viewers’ attitudes in authoritarian regimes" Journal of Information Technology & Politics

Stan Hok-Wui Wong and Nick H. K. Or. 2021. "To Compete or to Cooperate Intra- elite Dynamics in an Electoral Autocracy" Communist and Post-Communist Studies

Stan Hok-Wui Wong and Mathew Y. Wong. 2021. "'Distant Participation' and Youth Political Attitudes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment." Social Science Quarterly

Stan Hok-Wui Wong and Kelvin Chun-Man Chan. 2021. "Determinants of political purges in autocracies: Evidence from ancient Chinese dynasties." Journal of Peace Research

Yu Zeng and Stan Hok-Wui Wong. 2021. "Time Is Power: Rethinking Meritocratic Political Selection in China." China Quarterly

Stan Hok-Wui Wong and Yu Zeng. 2020. "Familiarity breeds growth: The impact of factional ties on local cadres’ economic performance in China." Economics & Politics

Stan Hok-wui Wong, Karl Ho, and Harold D. Clarke. 2019. "Mass Production of Individualized Services: Machine Politics in Hong Kong." Journal of Electoral Studies 26(1): 57-88.

Stan Hok-Wui Wong, Kuan-chen Lee, Karl Ho, and Harold D. Clarke. 2019. "Immigrant Influx and Generational Politics: A Comparative Case Study of Hong Kong and Taiwan." Electoral Studies.

Stan Hok-Wui Wong and Kin-man Wan. 2018. "The Housing Boom and the Rise of Localism in Hong Kong: Evidence from the Legislative Council Election in 2016." China Perspectives, 3.

Stan Hok-Wui Wong and Yu Zeng. 2018. "Getting Ahead by Getting On the Right Track: Horizontal Mobility in China's Political Selection Process." Journal of Contemporary China

Stan Hok-Wui Wong, Ngok Ma, Wai-man Lam. 2018. "Immigrants as Voters in Electoral Autocracies: The Case of Mainland Chinese Immigrants in Hong Kong." Journal of East Asian Studies.

Stan Hok-Wui Wong. 2018. "Gerrymandering in Electoral Autocracies: Evidence from Hong Kong," British Journal of Political Science

Stan Hok-Wui Wong and Yu Zeng. 2017. "Do inferences of competence from faces predict political selection in authoritarian regimes? Evidence from China," Social Science Research

Stan Hok-Wui Wong, Ngok Ma, and Wai-man Lam. 2016. "Migrants and Democratization: the Political Economy of Chinese Immigrants in Hong Kong," Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, v. 2, no. 2

Stan Hok-Wui Wong and Nicole Wu. 2016. "Can Beijing Buy Taiwan? An Empirical Assessment of Beijing’s Agricultural Trade Concessions to Taiwan," Journal of Contemporary China, v. 25, no. 99.

Stan Hok-Wui Wong and Minggang Peng. 2015. "Petition and Repression in China's Authoritarian Regime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment," Journal of East Asian Studies, v15, no.1.

Stan Hok-Wui Wong. 2015. "Real Estate Elite, Economic Development, and Political Conflicts in Post-Colonial Hong Kong," China Review.

Stan Hok-Wui Wong. 2014. "Resource Disparity and Multi-level Elections in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes:Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Hong Kong," Electoral Studies, v33.

Stan Hok-Wui Wong and Hiroki Takeuchi. 2013. "Fiscal Appeasement, Central-Local Relations, and Ethnic Regions in China's Authoritarian Regime," Japanese Journal of Political Science, v14, no. 1.

Stan Hok-Wui Wong. 2012. "Authoritarian Co-optation in the Age of Globalisation: Evidence from Hong Kong," Journal of Contemporary Asia, v. 42, no. 2.

Stan Hok-Wui Wong. 2010. "Political Connections and Firm Performance: the Case of Hong Kong," Journal of East Asian Studies, v. 10, no. 2.

Stan Hok-Wui Wong. 2007. "Juries, Judges, and Corruption: A Cross-national Analysis," Public Integrity, v. 9 no. 2

HONG KONG ELECTION STUDY

I am the Principal Investigator of the Hong Kong Election Study (HKES) with Dr. Harold D. Clarke, Dr. King-wa Fu, and Dr. Karl Ho as the Co-Investigators.

CONTACT

ADDRESS 208A Anderson Hall
EMAIL hok.wong@stthom.edu
PHONE TBC