Dr. Samson Yuen
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Programme Director
Director of Comparative Governance and Policy Research Centre
| samsonyuen@hkbu.edu.hk | |
| Office | AAB1111 |
| Tel | 3411-5647 |
| Website | samson-yuen.com |
About me
I am a political scientist who is interested in contentious and authoritarian politics, conflict processes, political economy, public opinion and state-society relations, with a regional focus on China and East Asia. Currently, I am Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government and International Studies of Hong Kong Baptist University. I am also the Director of the Comparative Governance and Policy Research Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University. I have been a visiting fellow in the Australia Centre on China in the World, Australian National University.
My research has been published in Journal of Conflict Resolution, Government and Opposition, Political Studies, Geopolitics, Mobilization, Social Movement Studies, The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China and Modern China. My book on leaderful mobilizations will be published by Cambridge University Press under the Cambridge Series in Contentious Politics. I serve on the executive committee of the Hong Kong Political Science Association and the editorial board of China Perspectives.
I am available for PhD supervision and welcome inquiries. Find me at Google scholar.
Contentious politics
Conflict studies
Political economy
East Asian politics
POLS 2006 Introduction to Political Economy
POLS 2016 Social Movements and Contentious Politics
GCAP 3195 Hong Kong and the World
Book
The Making of Leaderful Mobilization: Power and Contention in Hong Kong (co-authored with Edmund W. Cheng). Cambridge University Press. February 2025
Articles (see website for the full list)
Yuen, Samson. (Forthcoming) Dynamics of Internal Brakes: How Protesters Restrain Violent Tactics in a Leaderless Mobilization. Journal of Peace Research.
Yuen, Samson & Lee, Francis L. F. (2025) Echoes of Silence: The Effects of Social Influence on Self-Censorship under Democratic Backsliding. Democratization.
Yuen, Samson. (2023) Tolerant Solidarity with Violent Protesters: Evidence from a Survey Experiment. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 67(9): 1731–1756.
Yuen, Samson. (2023) Institutional Foundation of Countermobilization: Elites and Pro-Regime Grassroots Organizations in Post-handover Hong Kong. Government and Opposition. 58(2): 316-337. #Shortlisted for the ICAS 2023 Best Article Prize on Global Hong Kong Studies
Yuen, Samson & Tang, Gary. (2023) Instagram Networks and Social Capital: Teenage Activism in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill Movement. Social Movement Studies. 22(5-6): 706-727. #Honourable Mention of Britta Baumgarten Memorial Prize
Yue, Ricci P. H., Lau, Bobo H. P., Ng, S. M., Chan, Cecilia L. W. & Yuen, Samson (2023) When to be Vaccinated? What to Consider? Modelling Decision-making and Time Preference for COVID-19 Vaccine through a Conjoint Experiment. Vaccine. 41(42): 6300-6308.
Yuen, Samson, Tang, Gary, Lee, Francis L.F. & Cheng, Edmund W. (2022) Surveying Spontaneous Mass Protests: Mixed-mode Sampling in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill Movement. Sociological Methodology. 52(1): 75-102.
