Duke Kunshan University Professor Charles Chang has recently been awarded the 2024 James Caporaso Best Paper Award for his paper published in the journal Comparative Political Studies. The paper, co-authored with Harvard University Professor Yuhua Wang, is titled “The Reach of the State.” Building upon existing literature, their work conceptualizes

Professor Seongkyung Cho published an article on AI-chatbot adoption in governments in the leading journal Government Information Quarterly. Based on a mixed-method design examining Korean government employees, the research finds that trust in AI chatbots significantly drives chatbot adoption, with organizational support serving as a critical moderating factor that amplifies

On 4 June 2025, Duke Kunshan University Associate Professor Andrew Cheon published the article “Greening State Capitalism in an Era of Climate Change and Great Power Competition” in The National Interest. Governments and their national (i.e., state-owned) oil companies (NOCs), which claim up to an estimated 90% of the world’s oil and natural

Populism is on the rise in the “old continent” and beyond, a phenomenon with implications that require a thorough examination. In October 2024, Duke Kunshan University Professor Paula Ganga published the article titled “Bringing the state back in: Populism and economic nationalism in Europe.” Extremely relevant in today’s political environment,

Five years have passed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The momentous event challenged governments’ crisis response capabilities and offered insight into the different ways states use their capacities to manage such challenges. In response to the lack of research on this subject, Duke Kunshan University Professor Paula Ganga