CDDRL
Stanford University
Encina Hall C150
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

ericchyu@stanford.edu
(650) 724-4216 (voice)
(650) 724-2996 (fax)

Research Interests
American politics, quantitative methods, comparative politics, and Taiwanese politics

Eric Yu is a research fellow and program manager for the Democracy in Taiwan program at CDDRL. His research interests include public opinion, electoral politics, federalism, and quantitative methods. Currently he works with Election Study Center at National Chengchi University (Taiwan) on a multi-year research project examining the relationship between public opinion and policy output at the local level in Taiwan. This project aims to explore the extent to which local policy-makings respond to public opinions across a variety of policy dimensions. His recent studies also include the development of Taiwanese public attitudes toward cross-strait relations, the emergence of the third force under the new "single-district, two-ballot" electoral system for Taiwan's legislative elections, and mass policy preferences and their implications for political parties in Taiwan.

Yu received a BA (1995) in Political Science from the National Chengchi University in Taiwan, a MS (2000) in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. (2006) in Political Science from Columbia University.