Prof. Yu-Sung Su

Department of Political Science

Tsinghua University

China

Email: suyusung@tsinghua.edu.cn

Qualifications

2003-2009 Ph.D., City University of New York, New York, USA

2002-2003 M.A., New York University, New York, USA

2000-2002 M.A., Columbia University, New York, USA

1994-1998 B.A., National Chengchi University, Taiwan, China

Publications (Selected)

Journal Articles (English)

1. 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 Computing 1(1). (IEEE)
2. Pin-Chao Liao, Mei Liu, Yusung Su, Hui Shi, and Xintong Luo. 2018. “Estimating the Influence of Improper Workplace Environment on Human Error: Posterior Predictive Analysis,” Advances in Civil Engineering 18:1-11. (SCI)
3. 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)
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. 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)
7. 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)
8. Hong, Wei and Yu-Sung Su. 2012. “The Effect of Institutional Proximity in Non-Local University-Industry Collaborations: An Analysis Based on Chinese Patent Data.” Research Policy 42(2): 454–464. (SSCI)
9. 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%
10. 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)
11. 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%
12. 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)

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Su, Yu-Sung, and Jiangrui Liu. 2020. “A Review of Statistical Methods in American Politics.” Journal of American Studies 3:107–125. (CSSCI)
4. Feng, Tang, and Yu-Sung Su. 2020. “olitical Cooptation in Comparative Political Perspective.” Governance Studies 5:5-16. (CSSCI)
5. Chu, Xianglei, Yu-Sung Su. 2018. “Democratic Deconsolidation: The Crisis of Liberal Demcoracy.” Foreign Theoretical Trends 5:84–91. (CSSCI)
6. 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)
7. 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)
8. 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)
9. 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)
10. 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)
11. 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)
12. 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)
13. 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.
14. 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).
15. 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

1. Yu-Sung Su. 2016. Propensity Score Matching Methods: Fundamentals and Applications. Chongqing: Publishing House of Chongqing University. (in Chinese)
2. 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)
3. 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)
4. 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

1. 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–.
2. 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–.
3. 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–.
4. 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–.