Publications

Journal articles and book chapters

Wong, Stan Hok-Hui and Karl Ho. 2025. “Are We Measuring Internal Political Efficacy in Authoritarian Regimes?: The Case of Hong Kong.” In New Developments in the Trilateral Relationship between the United States, Taiwan, and China, edited by Yao-Yuan Yeh and Charles K. S. Wu. Rowman & Littlefield.

Wong, Stan Hok-Hui, Karl Ho and Harold D. Clarke. 2023. “Does Loyalty Discourage Exit? Evidence from Post-2020 Hong Kong.” Journal of Asian and African Studies.

Yu, Max Tsungchi and Karl Ho. 2022. “COVID and Cognitive Warfare in Taiwan.” Journal of Asian and African Studies.

Clarke, Harold D., Marianne C. Stewart and Karl Ho. 2021. “Did Covid-19 Kill Trump Politically? The Pandemic and Voting in the 2020 Presidential Election.” Social Science Quarterly.

Clark, Cal, Karl Ho and Alexander C. Tan, eds. 2021. Taiwan: Environmental, Political and Social Issues. Nova Science Publishers.

Clark, Cal, Alexander C. Tan and Karl Ho. 2020. “Was 2016 a Realigning Election in Taiwan?” Asian Survey.

Tan, Alexander C., Karl Ho and Cal Clark. 2020. “The Political Economy of Taiwan’s Regional Relations.” Asian Affairs: An American Review.

Wong, Stan Hok-Wui, Kelvin Chun-Man Chan, Karl Ho and Harold D. Clarke. 2020. “Sources of Electoral Support for Pro-Establishment Parties in the 2016 Legislative Council Election.” In Evaluations of the C. Y. Leung Administration, edited by Joseph Cheng.

Wong, Stan Hok-Wui, Karl Ho and Harold D. Clarke. 2019. “Mass Production of Individualized Services: Machine Politics in Hong Kong.” Electoral Studies.

Wong, Stan Hok-Wui, K. C. Lee, Karl Ho and Harold D. Clarke. 2019. “Immigrant Influx and Generational Politics: A Comparative Case Study of Hong Kong and Taiwan.” Electoral Studies.

Ho, Karl, Cal Clark and Alexander C. Tan. 2019. “The New Southbound Policy as a Reorientation of Taiwan’s Economic Strategy.” In The Maturation of a Mini-Dragon: Seventy Years of the Republic of China on Taiwan, edited by Yao-yuan Yeh and Hans Stockton. Lynne Rienner / FirstForum Press.

Tan, Alexander C., Cal Clark and Karl Ho. 2018. “Confronting the Costs of its Past Success: Revisiting Taiwan’s Post-authoritarian Political and Economic Development.” Asian Politics & Policy 10(3): 460–484.

Ho, Karl, Stan Hok-Wui Wong, Harold D. Clarke and Kuan-chen Lee. 2018. “A Comparative Study of the China Factor in Taiwan and Hong Kong Elections.” In Taiwan’s Political Re-Alignment and Diplomatic Challenges, edited by Wei-chin Lee. Palgrave Macmillan.

Lee, Kuan-chen, Wei-feng Tzeng, Karl Ho and Harold D. Clarke. 2017. “Against Everything Involving China? Two Types of Sinophobia in Taiwan.” Journal of Asian and African Studies.

Ho, Karl, Cal Clark and Alexander C. Tan. 2017. “Politicized to Mobilize? A Longitudinal Study of First Time Voter Turnout in Taiwan, 2004–2016.” Journal of Electoral Studies 24(2): 97–115.

Tan, Alexander C. and Karl Ho. 2017. “Cross-strait Relations and the Taiwan Voter.” In The Taiwan Voter, edited by Christopher Achen and T. Y. Wang. University of Michigan Press.

Ho, Karl, Dennis Lu-Chung Weng and Harold D. Clarke. 2015. “Using Repeated Cross-sectional Surveys to Study Political Attitudes and Behavior in a New Democracy: HAPC Models for Taiwan.” Electoral Studies 39: 256–263.

Ho, Karl, Harold D. Clarke, Li-Khan Chen and Dennis Lu-Chung Weng. 2013. “Valence Politics and Electoral Choice in a New Democracy: The Case of Taiwan.” Electoral Studies 32(3): 476–481.

Elliott, Euel W., Karl Ho and Jennifer S. Holmes. 2009. “Political Science Computing: A Review of Trends in Computer Evolution and Political Science Research.” Journal of Information Technology & Politics 6(2): 166–175.

Tan, Alexander C., Karl Ho, Kyung-Tae Kang and Tsung-Chi Yu. 2000. “What If We Don’t Party? Political Partisanship in Taiwan and Korea in the 1990s.” Journal of Asian and African Studies 35(1): 67–84.

Clarke, Harold D., Karl Ho and Marianne C. Stewart. 2000. “Major’s Lesser (Not Minor) Effects: Prime Ministerial Approval and Governing Party Support in Britain since 1979.” Electoral Studies 19(2–3): 255–273.

Ho, Karl. 1999. “The Hong Kong Legislative Election in 1998.” Electoral Studies 18: 438–445.

Poe, Steven C., Dierdre Wendel-Blunt and Karl Ho. 1997. “Global Patterns in the Achievement of Women’s Human Rights to Equality.” Human Rights Quarterly 19(4): 813–835.

Recent presentations

“When Distrust Mobilizes: Attitudes and Voting in Hong Kong and Taiwan” (with Kelvin Chun-Man Chan) — APSA Annual Meeting, Boston, 2026.

“Generational Cleavages in Media Effects: Evidence from Taiwan’s Presidential Elections” (with John Glendenning) — APSA Annual Meeting, Boston, 2026.

“Modeling Media Effects in Taiwan Elections: Latent Voter Segments, Bayesian Networks, and Synthetic Data” (with John Glendenning) — Conference on Electoral Politics in Taiwan, University of South Carolina, 2026.

“Media Effects and Party Support Volatility in US: A Synthetic Data Approach” — SPSA, Generative Language Models in Political Science Research, New Orleans, 2026.

“AI Readiness in Public Governance: Digital Democracy in Taiwan” — 19th International Conference on Crisis and Emergency Management, UT Dallas, 2025.

“Media Effects and Public Opinions in Taiwan: A Machine Learning Approach” — World Congress of Taiwan Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 2025.

“Modeling Political Support Dynamics Using Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks: A Synthetic Data Approach” — SPSA, 2025.