Research Publications

Published

Vo, T. H., & Reidhead, J. (2026). Navigating bilingualization: challenges and adaptation of Vietnamese master’s students in English-medium instruction under Taiwan’s bilingual 2030 policy. Asian Education and Development Studies, 1-19.

Song, E. E., Reidhead, J., & Park, J. (2025). Introducing Career Transition Data on Elites in North Korea. Journal of East Asian Studies, 25(1), 141-154.

Reidhead, J. A. (2023). Decamping the Partisans: US Hegemony and South Korea’s Divisive Discourse on North Korean Human Rights. Korean Studies, 47(1), 171-213.

Cook, K. S., & Reidhead, J. (2022). Social Trust. In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (pp. 439-450). Routledge.

Reidhead, J. (2020). Nomination patronage and party splitting: Comparing intraparty politics in South Korea and Taiwan (Doctoral dissertation). Stanford University.

Reidhead, J. (2018). A prisoner’s dilemma of movement nationalization: North Korean human rights in South Korea, 1990–2016. North Korean human rights: Activists and networks, 31-60.

Preprint

Reidhead, J. and Yerzhomartova, Ayazhan. (2026). Competing Loyalties, Hybrid Strategies: Elite Management in Authoritarian Regimes.

Reidhead, Jacob and Zhang, Yang, Taiwan’s Regional Legislators and Dominant Party Alignment (November 23, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5792422 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5792422

Ibadildin, Nygmet; Reidhead, Jacob; Bazarov, Muhamedzhan; Talipova, Maiya. (2025). Liberal Framing in Illiberal Regimes: January 2022 Protest Violence in Kazakhstan’s State-Controlled Media

Ibadildin, Nygmet; Reidhead, Jacob; Bazarov, Muhamedzhan; Talipova, Maiya. (2025). Loyal Uncertainty in Authoritarian Media: Elite Conflict and Framing during Kazakhstan’s Qandy Qantar (Bloody January) Protests.

Song, Esther and Reidhead, Jacob. (2025). Succession Politics in North Korea: The Strategic Role of Personnel Management.

In Progress

Reidhead, J. and Su, Evelyn. (2025). Introducing the Taiwan Political Careers Database. Research Note. [In progress]

Reidhead, J. and Wen, L.D. (2025). Introducing the Taiwan Political Families Database. Research Note. [In progress]

Reidhead, J. and Kao, Chia-Lin. (2026). Regional Party Leaders in Taiwan.

Reidhead, J. and Park, Jeongsue. (2025). The Sky is High and the Emperor is Far Away: Regional Economic Innovation in Post-Family North Korea

Reidhead, J. (2025). Political Networks and Organizations Framework