Howard Liu

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science

University of South Carolina

About me

Welcome! I am a Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina.

In my research, I write about state repression, human rights, dictatorship, and armed conflict with particular attention to how network relationships shape the use of coercion and violence. My research has been published at Journal of Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Global Security Studies, and Political Science Research and Methods.

Interests

State repression
Political violence
Dictatorship
Armed conflict
Network analysis

Education

PhD in Political Science, 2019

Duke University
MS in Political Science, 2009

National Taiwan University, Taiwan
BA in Diplomacy, 2007

National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Research

Dissent Networks, State Repression, and Strategic Clemency for Defection

(2022) Published in Journal of Conflict Resolution.

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Spatial Modeling of Dyadic Geopolitical Interactions Between Moving Actors

(2022) Published in Political Science Research and Methods

Sangyeon Kim, Howard Liu, Bruce Desmarais

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And the Heat Goes On: Police Repression and the Modalities of Power

(2021). Published in Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Howard Liu, Christopher Sullivan

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Taking Dyads Seriously

(2021). Published in Political Science Research and Methods.

Shahryar Minhas, Cassy Dorff, Margaret Foster, Max Gallop, Howard Liu, Juan Tellez, Michael D. Ward

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Elite Competition, Local Extraction, and Social Unrest: Understanding Mass Protest in Authoritarian Regimes

(2020). Published in Journal of Global Security Studies.

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Hierarchy and the Provision of Order in International Politics

(2020). Published in The Journal of Politics.

Kyle Beardsley, Howard Liu, Peter Mucha, David Siegel, Juan Tellez

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Lost in Space: Geolocation in Event Data

(2018). Published in Political Science Research and Methods.

Sophie Lee, Howard Liu, Michael D. Ward

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Teaching

POLI502 - Methods of Political Analysis

This grad-level course offers an introduction to the theory and practice of quantitative data analysis techniques.

POLI794 - Politics of State Repression and Human Rights

This graduate-level course introduces topics of human rights abuses and transitional justices after state repression of human rights