Research Postgraduates
Recent successfully completed and orally defended theses:
Master of Philosophy (M.Phil)
| 2022 |
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| BAI Yunpeng 白雲鵬 |
Authoritarian Cue Effect of State Repression |
| Myat Aung Kaung |
Burmese Nationalism Under the Military Junta: Elite Manipulation and Grassroots Contention |
| NI Jiaqian 倪佳倩 |
Behavior, Identity, and Incongruency: When and How Are Political Attitudes Moved? |
| 2021 |
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| CHOI Wai Tak, Douglas 蔡偉德 |
Justifying Exclusion: Freedom of Association, Territorial Rights, and the State’s Right to Exclude Immigrants |
| KWOK Yiu Chung 郭耀聰 |
State-society Relations and Public Consultation in Hong Kong: A State-in-society Approach |
| WOODS Andrew Nicholas |
Jus ad Bellum and the Korean War: Evaluating the Conflict and Testing the Theory |
| 2020 |
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| LI La, Larry 李拉 |
How is “China Insult” Deployed to Mobilise Political Support among Overseas Chinese Community for the Chinese Communist Party? |
| TONG Kin Long 唐健朗 |
One Cross-Boundary City Region, Two Discourse, Many Storylines: A Discursive Analysis of Hong Kong – Pearl River Delta Integration |
| WANG Bin, Oscar 王彬 |
Institutional Diversity and the Governance of Irrigation Commons in Rural China: Examining Ostrom’s Design Principles under Chinese Fragmented Authoritarianism |
| ZHAO Lingbo 趙凌波 |
Alliances as Fair-weather Friendships: External Threats and Alliance Stability |
| 2019 |
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| SHANG Zheng 尚 正 |
A Critique of Alan Patten’s Neutrality as Equal Accommodation on the Necessity of Radicalizing Liberal Neutrality |
| ZHANG Daiding 張岱鼎 |
Governing Innovation in China: Institutions, Policies, and Outcomes |
| 2018 |
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| CHEN Yajiao 陳雅姣 |
Government-led Collaborative Actions under China’s Environmental Authoritarianism: A Comparative Study of Two Lake Watersheds in Yunnan Province |
| CHUNG Man Yiu 鍾文耀 |
Political Meritocracy and Relational Equality |
Doctor of Philosophy
| 2023 |
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| MA Rongzhen 馬荣真 |
The Role, Burden, and Capture of Regulatory Intermediaries: NGOs in China's Environmental Public Interest Litigation System |
| 2022 |
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| ANGIOLILLO Fabio |
Party Membership in Autocracies: Ruling Parties' Recruitment Strategies and Organizational Strength |
| KANG Siqin 康思勤 |
The Inclination of Leviathan: The Expansion and Maintenance of Coercive Capacity in China |
| XIANG Chen 向 晨 |
Essays on China's Environmental Governance in Transition |
| HAN Xiao 韓 蕭 |
Chinese Military Thinking of Surprise |
| HEMSLEY Elizabeth |
Immigration Restrictions and the Liberal State: Does Liberalism Require Open Borders? |
| NEO Qi Zhi 梁啟智 |
To Censor and Oppress: The Political and Discursive Weaponization of ‘Fake News’ by the Authoritarian State in Southeast Asia |
| MUKHIN Nikolai |
The Modern Regency: A New Theory of Leadership Transition in Dictatorships and Regime Resilience: Evidence From Communist Single-party Regimes |
| SADLER Michael Paul |
What Makes Military Reassurance Work? Restraint, Conciliation, and Reciprocation During the Cold War |
| 2021 |
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| MAO Yexin 毛葉昕 |
How Does an Authoritarian Regime Choose Its Business Collaborator? Evidence From Public-private Partnerships in China |
| WANG Mengqiao, Felix 王夢橋 |
Compensation, Diversion, and the Conservation-Development Tradeoff: Field Evidence from China |
| 2020 |
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| AL-SUDAIRI Mohammed Turki A |
Fighting the Many Smoke-less Wars: A Comparative Study of the Origins, Conceptualizations and Practices of Cultural Security in China and Saudi Arabia |
| CUI Can 崔 璨 |
Remaking Water Regime: The Process of Institutional Change in China |
| FUNG Wai King, Winston 馮為敬 |
China as a Norm Entrepreneur Disseminating a Humane Authority Model in International Society |
| LIM Kirk 林駿傑 |
The Rise of Localism in Hong Kong: A Study of Discursive Formation |
| 2019 |
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| HTET Zaw |
The Problem of Social Integration: A Case Study of Muslims in Transitional Myanmar |
| KWONG Ying Ho 鄺英豪 |
Politics of Assimilative Autonomy: Comparative Analysis of Central-peripheral Relations in Hong Kong and Macao under Chinese Sovereignty |
| SONG Young, Annie 宋 英 |
Linking the Environment and Free Trade Agreements |
| WU Jie 吳 洁 |
Hospital on Fire: Politicized Medical Dispute Resolution in China |
| XIONG Cai 熊 彩 |
Revolution, Ideas and Violence in Policy Implementation: A Comparative Research on Birth Control Policy Implementation in Two Provinces in China |
| YUEN Wing Han, Vera 阮穎嫻 |
Social Policy Change in a Hybrid Regime – The Case of Retirement Protection in Hong Kong |
| 2018 |
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| HUANG Jie 黃 傑 |
Golden Youth: State, Market, and China’s Second-Generation Private Entrepreneurs |
| CHEN Hanyu 陳瀚諭 |
The Profit-Driven Welfare State in China: Public Housing in Two Prefecture-Level Districts |
| CHAN Sze Wan, Debby 陳詩韻 |
Signalling Effects of Social Movements in Asymmetric Bargaining: Myanmar and China, 2011-2016 |
| LI Yiran 李亦然 |
A Long March for Survival: The internet, Social Media and Government Accountability in China |
| LEUNG Yi Man, Evans 梁㦤雯 |
Industrial Restructuring in China: An Institutional Analysis of State-Society Relations and its Policy Impacts |
| PREECHARUSH Dulyapak |
The Politics of Federalization in Myanmar: A Study of Causal Relationships, Negotiation Mechanism, and Historical Evolution |
| MENG Weizhan 孟維瞻 |
Explaining the Variations in the Grand Strategies of Imperial China: Material Capabilities, Confucian Culture and Interest Conflict |
| RESTREPO Juan Manuel |
Scaling up Social Innovation: The Case of Escuela Nueva in Colombia and BRAC Education Programme in Bangladesh |
| YAO Yanran 姚嫣然 |
The Accountability Dilemmas of INGOs in China |
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