Dr. Yu-Sung Su
Professor, Department of Political Science
Tsinghua University
Education
2003-2009
City University of New York, New York, NY, US
Department of Political Science
Ph.D. received May 2009
2002-2003
New York University, New York, NY, US
Department of Politics
Master of Arts and Sciences received May 2003
2000-2002
Columbia University, New York, NY, US
School of International and Public Affairs
Master of International Affairs received May 2002
Certificates in International Economic Policy
1994-1998
National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Department of Diplomacy
B.A. received June 1998
Employment
2020-
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Professor, Department of Political Science
Adjunct Professor, Institute for International and Area Studies
2012-2020
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
2010-2012 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Lecturer, Department of Political Science
2010-2012
Columbia University, New York, NY, US
Research Fellow, Applied Statistic Center
2008-2010
Columbia University & New York University, New York, NY, US
Postdoctoral Researcher, Applied Statistic Center
Advisors: Dr. Andrew Gelman and Dr. Jennifer Hill
Project: Hierarchical models for public opinion, statistical methods for missing-data
imputation, and nonparametric methods for adjustment for causal inference.
Teaching
Undergraduate level
Game Theory and Politics, Latin American Politics, Political Science Research Methods
Graduate level
Comparative Political Development, Democratization and China in Comparative Perspective, Quantitative Analysis I, Quantitative Analysis II, Applied Government Big Data Analysis, Big Data Analytic (A),Workshop for Social Sciences and Data Science
Working Paper
Su, Yu-Sung, Siyu, Sun, Jiangrui Liu, Contriving the Future by Tampering with the Past: A Deferral Strategy in Chinese Censorship.
Su, Yu-Sung, Donald Lien, Yuling Yao, Happy and Unhappy Generations: How and Why Chinese People’s Life Satisfaction Vary across Generations. Journal of Happiness Studies (Under Review)
Su, Yu-Sung, Yutzung Chang. Competition without Universal Suffrage: China Youth’s Understanding of Democracy
Su, Yu-Sung, Democracy in Chinese Context
Publications
Journal Articles (English)
Chang, Yu-tzung, and Yu-Sung Su*. 2024. “Conviction of Multiparty Competition and Elections among Chinese College Students: A List Experiment Study.” Journal of Chinese Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-024-09887-1
Su, Yu-Sung*, and Andrew Gelman. 2023. “Who Wants School Vouchers in America? A Comprehensive Study Using Multilevel Regression and Poststratification”. Social Sciences 12(8): 430. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci1208043
Wang, Jiaming, Yu-Sung Su, and Pin-Chao Liao. 2023. “Re-investigation of the Mediating Effect of Brain Activities between Dispositional Factors and Hazard Recognition: A Multilevel Logistic Regression Approach”. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering 27:3646-3658.
Liu, Yu, Yu-Sung Su*, and Wenquan Wu. 2023. “How Modernization Theory Has Stumbled in China: A Political Interception Perspective”. Democratization 30(2):302-324.
Yu-Sung Su*, Donald Lien, Yuling Yao. 2022. Economic growth and happiness in China: A Bayesian multilevel age-period-cohort analysis based on the CGSS data 2005–2015”. International Review of Economics and Finance 77:191-205. (SSCI)
Su, Yu-Sung, Yanqin Ruan, Siyu Sun, and Yu-Tzung Chang. 2020. “A Pattern Recognition Framework for Detecting Changes in Chinese Internet Censorship”. Journal of Social Computing1(1). (IEEE)
Pin-Chao Liao, Mei Liu, Yusung Su, Hui Shi, and Xintong Luo. 2018. “Estimating the Influence of ImproperWorkplace Environment on Human Error: Posterior Predictive Analysis,”Advances in Civil Engineering 18:1-11. (SCI)
Pin-Chao Liao, Hui Shi, Yusung Su, and Xintong Luo. 2018. “Development of Data-Driven Influence Model to Relate the Workplace Environment to Human Error.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 144(3): 04018003. (SCI)
Bernauer, Thomas, Robert Gampfer, Tianguang Meng, and Yu-Sung Su. 2016. “Could More Civil Society Involvement Increase Public Support for Climate Policy-Making? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in China.” Global Environmental Change 40:1-12. (SCI)
Liu, Frank, C.S. and Yu-Sung Su. 2015. “Adjusting Survey Response Distributions Using Multiple Imputation: A Simulation with External Validation.” Survey Research: Method and Application 34:7-32. (TSSCI)
Liu, Jingchen, Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill, Yu-Sung Su, and Jonathan Kropko. 2014. “On the Stationary Distribution of Iterative Imputations.” Biometrika 101(1):155–173. (SCI)
Hill, Jennifer and Yu-Sung Su. 2013. “Addressing Lack of Common Support in Causal Inference.” The Annals of Applied Statistics 7(3):1386–1420. (SCI)
Hong, Wei and Yu-Sung Su. 2012. “The Effect of Institutional Proximity in Non-Local UniversityIndustry Collaborations: An Analysis Based on Chinese Patent Data.” Research Policy 42(2):454–464. (SSCI)
Su, Yu-Sung, Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill, and Masanao Yajima. 2011. “Multiple Imputation with Diagnostics (mi) in R: Opening Windows into the Black Box.” Journal of Statistical Software 45 (2):1–31. (SCI) ESI Top 1%
Gelman, Andrew, Lane Kenworthy, and Yu-Sung Su. 2010. “Income Inequality and Partisan Voting in the United State.” Social Science Quarterly 91 (5):1203–1291. (SSCI)
Gelman, Andrew and Yu-Sung Su. 2010. “Voting by Education in 2008.” Chance 23 (3): 8.
Gelman, Andrew, Aleks Jakulin, Maria Grazia Pittau, and Yu-Sung Su. 2008. “A Weakly Informative Default Prior Distribution for Logistic and Other Regression Models.” Annals of Applied Statistics 2 (4): 1360–1383. (SCI) ESI Top 1%
Su, Yu-Sung. 2008. “It’s Easy to Produce Chartjunk Using Microsoft Excel 2007 But Hard to Make Good Graphs.” Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 52 (10): 4594–4601. (SCI)
Journal Aricles (Chinese)
Su, Yu-Sung. 2022. “Introduction: Modernization of National Governance and People’s Sense of Gain”. Journal of Public Administration 15(2):1-3. (CSSCI)
Tang, Feng, Yu-Sung Su. 2022. “A Study on the Sense of gain from the Perspective of Poltiical Participation: Based on CSS 2015-2019”. Journal of Public Administration 15(2):22-41
Su, Yu-Sung, Feng Tang. “How Does the Use of the Internet Affect Public Satisfaction with Environmental Governance? A Study based on the Mediating Effect of the Government' s Environmental Image and the Moderating Effect of Environmental Accountability” Social Policy Research (3):44-63
Su, Yu-Sung, and Jiangrui Liu. 2021. “Computational Social Science and the Debate the Debate on Research Paradigms: The End of History?” Fudam Journal (Social Sciences) 2:192–199.
Su Yu-Sung, Feng Tang, Xianglei Chu. 2021. “How to Improve the Chinese political confidence in comprehensively governing the Party with strict discipline: Empirical evidence from CSGS2015.”Governance Studies 2:2–17.
Su, Yu-Sung, and Jiangrui Liu. 2020. “A Review of Statistical Methods in American Politics.” Journal of American Studies 3:107–125. (CSSCI)
Feng, Tang, and Yu-Sung Su. 2020. “olitical Co-optation in Comparative Political Perspective.”Governance Studies 5:5-16. (CSSCI)
Chu, Xianglei, Yu-Sung Su. 2018. “Democratic Deconsolidation: The Crisis of Liberal Demcoracy.” Foreign Theoretical Trends 5:84–91. (CSSCI)
Zheng, Zhenqin, Yu-Sung Su, Yutzung Chang. 2018. “The Social Origin and Change of the Political Support among Chinese Public: An Empirical Study Based on the 2015 China Social Governance Survey.” Political Science Research 3:51-61. (CSSCI)
Zhang, Xiaojin, Bo Chen, Yu-Sung Su. 2017. “A Differential Pattern of Political Trust between Urban and Rural Residents—An Empirical Study Based on 2015 CGSG data.” Journal of Xiangtan University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) 41(6):32–39. (CSSCI)
Chen, Bo, Yu-Sung Su. 2017. “A Comparison of Political Trust between Urban and Rural Residents—An Empirical Study Based on 2015 CGSG data.” Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Social Sciences) 31(4):86–95. (CSSCI)
Su, Yu-Sung. 2016. “The Involvement of Social Organization in the Global Climate Change Negotiation.” Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) 31(4):67-75. (CSSCI)
Su, Yu-Sung and Yuling Yao. 2015. “Addressing the Non-Representative Issue of the Big Data: An Analysis of the Geographical Distribution of Salty and Sweet Taste Preference.” Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) 30(1). (CSSCI)
Su, Yu-Sung. 2014. “A Comparative Study of Bilateral Trade Relationships between the US, the EU, China, and Latin America.” Journal of Latin American Studies 36(3):26-24. (CSSCI)
Lu, Nannan and Yu-Sung Su. 2012. “Latin American Studies in China: A Historical and Comparative Perspective.” Journal of Latin American Studies 34(2):15-23. (CSSCI)
Su, Yu-Sung. 2001. “The Analysis of Japan-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.” APEC Review 8.Taipei, Taiwan: Chinese Taipei APEC Study Center of Taiwan Institute of Economic Research(Fall): 37–49.
Su, Yu-Sung. 2001. “The Introduction of the APEC Internet Volunteer Program.” APEC Newsletter 23, Taipei, Taiwan: Chinese Taipei APEC Study Center of Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (August).
Su, Yu-Sung. 2001. “The Introduction to the APEC Manual of Tourism Training.” The Analysis of Selected APEC Issues 2. Taipei, Taiwan: Chinese Taipei APEC Study Center of Taiwan Institute of Economic Research. (October): 173–188.
Books
Yu-Sung Su. 2016. Propensity Score Matching Methods: Fundamentals and Applications. Chongqing：Publishing House of Chongqing University. (in Chinese)
Book Chapters
Su, Yu-Sung. 2016. “A Historical and Comparative Perspective on Latin American Studies in China.” in Zhang, Xiaojin and Jing, Yuejin eds. Understanding Politics: Global Perspectives and Chinese Issues. Beijing: Central Compilation & Translation Press. (in Chinese)
Su, Yu-Sung. 2016. “A Study on Sino-Latin American Trade Relations.” in Zhang, Xiaojin and Jing,Yuejin eds. Understanding Politics: Global Perspectives and Chinese Issues. Beijing: Central Compilation & Translation Press. (in Chinese)
Su, Yu-Sung. 2001. “The Analysis of the Notion: ‘The-Winner-Take-All’.” Knowledge-based Economy II. Taipei, Taiwan: Chinese Taipei APEC Study Center of Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (October): 293–313. (in Chinese).
Software
Gelman, Andrew, Yu-Sung Su, Masanao Yajima, Jennifer Hill, Maria Grazia Pittau, Jouni Kerman,and Tian Zheng. arm: Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models. R package. http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/arm. 2007–.
Su, Yu-Sung and Masanao Yajima. R2jags: A Package for Running jags from R. R package. http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/R2jags/. 2008–.
Gelman, Andrew, Jennifer Hill, Yu-Sung Su, Masanao Yajima, Maria Grazia Pittau, Ben Goodrich,Yajuan Si, Jon Kropko mi: Multiple Imputation and Model Checking. R package. http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/mi/. 2008–.
Carpenter, Bob, Ben Goodrich and Yu-Sung Su. 2010. migui: Graphical User Interface of the mi Package. R package. http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/migui/. 2010–.
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
2020
Instructor for Excellent Ph.D. Dissertation, Tsinghua University, China
2019
Best Paper Award in Methodology for the paper presented at the annual meeting of Taiwanese Political Science Association, Chiayi, Taiwan
2015
Award for the Best University Scientific Research, the Ministry of Education, China.
2014
Research Award of the Best Fieldwork of Junior Faculties in Beijing Universities, Beijing, China
2012
Best Teaching Software Award, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2008
Ivo Duchacek Award for best journal articles, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, US
2008-2009 David Spitz Dissertation Fellowship, the Graduate Center, City University of NewYork, US
2007
Best Paper Award for the paper presented at the annual meeting of Taiwanese Political Science Association, Taipei, Taiwan
2007
Conference Grant, the Ministry of Education, Taiwan
2007
Graduate Student Travel Grant, the American Political Science Association, US
2007-2008
Study Abroad Scholarship, the Ministry of Education, Taiwan
2007
Rustow Travel Fellowship, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, US
Research Grants
2012-2014
Tsinghua University independent research grant, “Contemporary Political Science Researches”.
2013-2014
ETH Zurich grant, “Civil Socient and Global Climate Change Policy”.
2014-2015
The Beijing Municipal Committee grant, “The Involvement of NGO in Global Climate Change Negotiation”.
2015-2016
Ministry of Civil Affair grant, “Evaluation on the Survey of Monitoring the System for Ensuring a Minimum Standard of Living”.
2015-2016
Ministry of Civil Affair grant, “Evaluation on the Implementation of the System for Ensuring a Minimum Standard of Living”.
2015-2018
Tsinghua University graduate teaching reform grant, “Applied Government Big Data Analysis”.
2016-2018
Tsinghua University graduate teaching reform grant, “Constructing Social Science and Data Science Workshop and Working Paper Database”.
2016-2018
Tsinghua University independent research grant, “Internet Opinions on the crossStrait relationship and their Impacts on the Policy Making”.
2019-2019
Shandong University grant, “Chinese Social Governance Survey in Shandong Province”.
2020-2021
Tsinghua University Spring Foundation grant, “Chinese Social Value Survey under the Pandemic”
Professional Services
The Chief of Editor Board of the Research Methods for Social Sciences Book Series, Chongqing:Publishing House of Chongqing University.
Research Fellow of the Asian Barometer Survey.
Reviewer for Journal of Computational Statistics, Journal of Statistical Software, Natural Hazards,PLOS ONE, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Election Studies, Modern Economy
Skills
Language: Fluent in English and proficient in written Spanish and French; Native Chinese and Taiwanese.
Computer Skills: Extensive use of R, SPSS, STATA, STAN, JAGS, WinBUGS, and Gephi; Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio); LATEX and various graph editors (PhotoShop,Illustrator, InDesign, CorelDraw, ArcGIS and AutoCAD)
