National Chengchi University

When leaders rock the boat: Leader reputation and the credibility of US commitments

Do allies translate negative assessments of a patron state’s leader into doubts about the credibility of the patron state? Recent work suggests that they do, but this article argues otherwise. It develops a theory of reputational filtering, whereby allied elites interpret leader-...

An analysis of Taiwan’s educational contributions to sustainable development: evidence from Taiwan’s university social responsibility

Purpose This study aims to examine the operational logic through which Taiwan’s university social responsibility (USR) program, led by the Taiwan authorities, promotes local sustainable development, compare it with the operational logic of USR programs in Europe and the United St...

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Abstract In recent years, there has been effort to extend the classical notion of phylogenetic balance, originally defined in the context of trees, to networks. One of the most natural ways to do this is with the so-called upper B 2 <mml:math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/x...