Samson Yuen

Political scientist @HkbuGis | contentious politics and conflict process | DPhil @Politics_Oxford

Author of "The Making of Leaderful Mobilization" (CUP 2025)

[Xiao Ma @maxiaoalex]

🚗🔋 Many think Beijing masterfully planned China's EV takeover. Fengming Lu (@ANUBellSchool ) and I spent 3 years and 60+ interviews finding out what actually happened in our latest article @TheChinaJournal. A thread 🧵

[Tetsuro Kobayashi @tkobyashi]

Professor Samson Yuen (Hong Kong Baptist University) will give a workshop on “Economic Precarity and Populism in East Asia” at Waseda University on July 1 at 5:00 PM. No registration is required, and all are welcome.
https://t.co/d8O1FdWK70

[Philip Bunn @PhilipDBunn]

Peer review in the 1950s be like

[Ye Zhang @zhangye68]

Many thanks to the editors, reviewers, and colleagues for their valuable comments along the way!

[Samson Yuen @SamsonYuen852]

2/ By analyzing thousands of threads in an online discussion forum, I identified four key normative logics at play: proportionality, conditionality, consequentiality and moral sanity.

[Samson Yuen @SamsonYuen852]

Leaderless protests are prone to violent escalation, but can they be regulated?

1/ My new paper @JPR_journal explores how "internal brakes" are constructed to regulate militant tactics, using the case of Hong Kong.

Read here (hope you like the title): https://t.co/n8pyYNqXps

[Samson Yuen @SamsonYuen852]

Proud of our civil society. Hong Kong is very much alive.

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

HKFP_Live: Volunteers hand out supplies near Tai Po fire site https://t.co/j4AoiBB3sy

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

HKFP_Live: Volunteers hand out supplies near Tai Po fire site https://t.co/j4AoiBB3sy

[Man-yee Kan @manyeekan.bsky.social @manyeekan]

📢 Call for Papers – Hong Kong Sociological Association Annual Conference 6th December 2025. Abstract submissions are open until 19 September. I’m honoured to be giving a keynote at the conference and look forward to engaging with fellow scholars.

[MCS Journal @MCSjournal]

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Gary Tang and colleagues examine how independent journalists in post-#NSL Hong Kong act as key agents of democratic resilience. The article highlights their risk navigation, persistence and professional ethics.
https://t.co/oT1Gksb2Po

[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

What happens before and after tenure? Check out our latest paper in PNAS @PNASNews: Tenure and Research Trajectories

Led by Giorgio Tripodi, postdoc in my lab. Fun collaboration with Xiangzheng, @qian_yifan, Dakota Murray, @bfjo & @ChaoqunNi

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[Yuki Yanai (矢内 勇生) @yuki871]

Happy to share our new paper, published in Electoral Studies, co-authored with @M_higashijima, N. Shimizu & H. Washida. We introduce our new dataset, which records national election dates in 148 autocracies and democracies from 1945 to 2023. Open access: https://t.co/x1SUjXkboo

[Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci]

"Comparative politics has needed a book like this – one that directly and dedicatedly tackles the topic of counterrevolutions – for a very long time."

Return of Tyranny by Killian Clark, Coming Soon

https://t.co/DLEd0jP6PS

[yaotaili @yaotaili]

Acknowledging the success of digital activism during the Anti-ELAB Movement, this article @SocialMedia_Soc documents challenges to efficacy for organizers amidst democratic backsliding, including fragmentation of voices, diverse forms of participation, and concerns about trust.

[Vicky Wong 黃瑋殷 @vickywong710]

We’re watching Noble House and wow look at what HK used to look like! Look at Aberdeen! Look it’s the famous pothole window building! Look at all that neon!

[Haohan Chen @haohanch]

Just open-sourced the course materials of my course "Data Science in Politics and Public Administration" at HKU. https://t.co/nFh8qBz0E7

[Austin Strange @AustinMStrange]

We are looking forward to hosting @selinalcho later this month at @HKUniversity @ppa_hku2024!

If you are in HK, please join us and hear more about this fascinating work on China, SE Asia, and "grey" special economic zones.

Registration + details: https://t.co/LFXHSGRDQC

[Nicole Wu @nicolekwu]

The Department of Politics & Public Admin @HKUniversity is hosting an empirical research conference May 16-17. We aim to bring together scholars doing exciting, cutting-edge research in Asia & beyond.

HKU PPA will cover transport & accommodation for nonlocal presenters. Details:

[PSRM Journal @PSRMJournal]

📽️Are your favourite characters from Disney, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, & Star Wars left-wing or right-wing? 🤔

➡️ S.J.Turnbull-Dugarte & @MarkusWagnerAT explore how we project political identities onto heroes & villains https://t.co/NQlzkRYV8f #FirstView

[Adrian del Rio @Delrio_Adri]

Update your reference list! The global dataset on #education by Knutsen, @philutsc, and myself has landed in an issue in CPS https://t.co/G3IaXmsJtk