Heuristic Inference and the Left-Right Summary How do voters form left–right images of political parties? This Element applies the theoretical framework of ecologically rational heuristic inference to synthesize insights from the extensive literature on the meaning of left and right in politics. It proposes several hypotheses about cues that voters with varying levels of political […]
“The enduring impacts of early life exposure to heatwaves on climate governance” published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management by Profs. Jingbo Cui (Duke Kunshan University), Chunhua Wang (Shanghai Jiaotong University) and Zhenxuan Wang (North Carolina State University) This paper examines the enduring effects of early-life exposure to heatwaves on the climate governance of […]
The Emergence of Belief Attribution and Dehumanization Are Associated published in Developmental Science by Profs. Wen Zhou (Duke Kunshan University) and David Hare (Duke University) Dehumanization is hypothesized to involve denying others a fully human mind. We tested its proposed link with theory-of-mind development in 3- to 6-year-olds (total N = 247) using a minimal group […]
We are thrilled to announce the publication of Professor Mengqi Wang’s new book, Anxious Homes. About the Book Anxious Homes is a study of the power that shapes the forms of the homes Chinese citizens strive for and the possible paths they may take to realize their home ownership dreams.Mengqi Wang discusses how the Chinese real estate […]
Professor Yeshim Iqbal’s article “Effects of an early childhood father engagement program in Rohingya camps and host community in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: a cluster randomized controlled trial” is published in BMC Global and Public Health. This study evaluates a 6-month early childhood father engagement intervention delivered in-person to fathers in the Rohingya camps and surrounding host communities in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. […]
Wanlin Bai, a senior undergraduate economics student at Duke Kunshan University, attended the 100th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society (AES 2026) at Wadham College and the Examination Schools, University of Oxford, from 23 to 25 March 2026, where she presented her research. This participation was supported by the Duke Kunshan University Office of […]
We’re delighted to shine a light on a remarkable new publication! Prof. Lincoln Rathnam’s The Practice of Skepticism: Montaigne and Zhuangzi on Freedom, Coexistence, and the Limits of Government has just been released in electronic form (with the physical edition coming in March) via Oxford University Press. As part of the Studies in Comparative Political […]
Warmest congratulations to Prof. Nellie Chu on the release of her new book, Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou, published by Duke University Press on February 3, 2026! This 280-page work—enriched with 10 illustrative visuals—offers an extraordinary deep dive into the lives of migrant entrepreneurs at the core of Guangzhou’s fast fashion industry, one of […]
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 the reach of the state […]
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 this trust-adoption relationship within government […]
Professor Seongkyung Cho published two articles on source of income (SOI) antidiscrimination laws in leading journals in urban and housing policy. The first study, published in Housing Policy Debate, analyzes why some U.S. cities adopt laws prohibiting discrimination against housing voucher holders, finding that policy diffusion, vertical policy pressure, election dynamics, and local socioeconomic factors […]
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 gas reserves, stand to lose […]