Social Sciences and International Study Breakout Session

9:00 ‐ 10:30 Participation, Democracy and Economic Globalization (Chairman, Cheng-Shan Liu, Professor, NSYSU)

Jason Y. Wu, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, UC San Diego
“A Spatial Valence Model of Political Participation in China”
Poe Yu-ze Wan, Professor, NSYSU
“Outsourcing Participatory Democracy: A Critical Examination of the Top-Down Participatory Budgeting Experiences in Taiwan”
Rou-Lan Chen, Professor, NSYSU
“Prospect of Taiwan’s Economic Globalization Under the Scope of Taiwan's and US's Party Turnover”
Jack Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, UC San Diego
“Trade Interdependence and Chinese Uses of Economic and Military Coercion”

10:30 ‐ 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 ‐ 12:30 Methodological and Moral Issues in Studying China (Chairman, Richard Madsen, Professor, UC San Diego)

Yiqing Xu, Professor, UC San Diego
“How Much Should We Trust Estimates from Multiplicative Interaction Models? Simple Tools to Improve Empirical Practice”
Cheng-Shan Liu, Professor, NSYSU
“How Exploratory Political Studies Advances Our Understanding about Politics: A Thick Data Approach”
Chiahao Hsu, Professor, NSYSU
“The Moral Dilemmas of Confucianizing Human Rights in Contemporary China”