Tse-min Lin

Biography

An Associate Professor at the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, Professor Lin has taught or visited at State University of New York at Stony Brook, Duke University, Michigan State University, and the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica. His teaching and research interests cover methodology, formal theory, and American and comparative political behavior.

He has published in American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Democratization, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Political Research Quarterly, Public Choice, Social Science History, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, World Politics, as well as in edited volumes. His recent work includes "The Dynamics of the Partisan Gender Gap" (American Political Science Review, Vol. 98, No. 3, August 2004), "Neighborhood Influence on the Formation of National Identity in Taiwan: Spatial Regression with Disjoint Neighborhoods" (Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 1, March 2006), "Markets and Politics: The 2000 Taiwanese Presidential Election" (in Melvin Hinich and William A. Barnett, eds., Topics in Analytical Political Economy. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007), and “The Structure of Taiwan’s Political Cleavages toward the 2004 Presidential Election: A Spatial Analysis” (Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Vol. 4, No. 2, December 2008). Conference papers include “The Minimum-Sum Point as a Solution Concept in Spatial Voting,” “Spatial Regression, Increasing Returns, and Regionalism,” “The Spatial Organization of Elections and the Cube Law,” and “Modeling Rebellion Intensity with a Zero-Inflated Ordered Probit Model.”