Howard Liu

Howard Liu

Assistant Professor
Department of Government

University of Essex

About me

Welcome! I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Government at the University of Essex.

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.

At Essex, I teach graduate-level quantitative methodology.

Interests

  • State Repression
  • Protest
  • Dictatorship
  • Armed Conflicts
  • Networks

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

Publications

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). Forthcoming 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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Working Papers

Relational Punishment, Defection, and Resistance Demobilization in Repressive Regimes: Evidence from Taiwan's White Terror Period

Revise & Resubmit. Journal of Conflict Resolution
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Predicting Dyadic and Geopolitical Interactions Between Spatially Moving Actors

Revise & Resubmit. Political Science Research and Methods
Sangyeon Kim, Howard Liu, Bruce Desmarais
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Modeling the Repression and Dissent Dynamics: A Network Approach

Working paper. Stuart A. Bremer Award, Peace Science Society (2018)
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Dictators and their Repressive Agents: Judicial Institution, Information Screening, and State Repression

Working paper.
Howard Liu, Ching-Hsuan Su, Yi-Ting Wang
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The Failure of an Imagined Community: Organizational Hierarchy and the Split of Rebel Groups

Working paper.
Chuyu Liu, Howard Liu
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Teaching

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GV900 - Political Explanation

This module offers an introduction to the theory and practice of quantitative data analysis techniques.