Quoted ““Overthrowing a dictatorship is fundamentally different than building a lasting democracy."” —Professor Mai HassanSpectrumSpring 2023 September 28, 2023 “Increased pressure on China could easily backfire and motivate Beijing to become more aggressive in order to demonstrate its resolve to other states despite its internal difficulties.” —Professor Taylor Fravel Foreign Affairs September 15, 2023 Taylor Fravel Foreign Affairs “Canada manages to have 'wonderfully boring' banks, says David Singer, who studies crises and heads Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s department of political science. 'The recipe for stability is to have well-capitalized, risk-averse banks,' he says. A well-capitalized bank is something like a homeowner with a lot of equity: It has a financial cushion to absorb losses on the value of its assets. 'But banks won’t naturally gravitate toward such behavior. They need thorough and steady regulation that doesn’t ease up when the economy is humming.'” —Professor David Singer April 15, 2023 Max Abelson Bloomberg.com “Vote totals are likely to shift throughout the evening as well as in the days that follow election day as votes continue to be counted. That shift isn’t unusual and can be explained by two dynamics...” —Charles Stewart III November 9, 2022 Sam Levine The Guardian “The logistical issues of manufacturing that many ballots and distributing them in a way that would go unnoticed just boggles the mind.” —Charles Stewart III November 8, 2022 Sudiksha Kochi USA Today “They are a fail-safe method to ensure that everyone who is registered to vote gets to cast a ballot.” —Charles Stewart III November 7, 2022 AP Fox News “They [provisional ballots] are a fail-safe method to ensure that everyone who is registered to vote gets to cast a ballot.” —Charles Stewart III November 4, 2022 Philip Marcelo The Public's Radio “The immovable force in elections over the last 20 years hasn't changed and that is voters really demanding more convenience.” —Professor Charles Stewart III October 28, 2022 Miles Parks NPR “It was a puzzling statement… what [Blinken] seems to be saying is that the status quo across the strait has been shifting because of China’s actions toward Taiwan in the past few years” —Professor M. Taylor Fravel October 27, 2022 Phelim Kine Politico “What brings people to the polls is conflict and uncertainty about who’s going to win the election...When you get it into an equilibrium where there is no uncertainty about who’s going to win the election, then you stay at home.” —Professor Charles Stewart III October 26, 2022 Jusneel Mahal Commonwealth Magazine NPR’s Miles Parks spotlights Prof. Charles Stewart III’s research showing that hand counting ballots is “significantly less accurate, more expensive and more time-consuming than using tabulation equipment.” October 7, 2022 Miles Park NPR “Despite their reoccurrence, I don’t view these statements as reflecting a change in strategy.” —M. Taylor Fravel September 20, 2022 Jesse Johnson The Japan Times “Political scientists Barry Posen and Charles Charles Kupchan argued that Kyiv’s best option was to sue for peace and forgo joining NATO...Despite these pressures, Western support for Ukraine remains strong.” September 15, 2022 Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay Foreign Affairs Prof. Stewart in New Hampshire Public Radio, "State committee hears expert testimony on what drives voter mistrust" September 7, 2022 Paul Cuno-Booth New Hampshire Public Radio Research by Prof. Devin Caughey is cited in The Economist, "American policy is splitting, state by state, into two blocs" September 3, 2022 The Economist “It could increase stress on the Taiwanese Air Force to track, monitor and respond to them … this is a way of basically increasing the daily military pressure on Taiwan.” —M. Taylor Fravel September 1, 2022 Phelim Kine Politico Prof. Stewart predicts less absentee voting in 2022 compared to previous years in the pandemic. August 12, 2022 ABC News Prof. Charles Stewart says additional poll volunteers are needed to prevent long lines, delayed results, and fewer polling locations. August 12, 2022 Isabelle Hamilton ABC News Fravel quoted in The Wall Street Journal, "China’s Military Exercises Showcase Modern Fighting Force Preparing for Possible War in the Taiwan Strait" August 7, 2022 Alastair Gale and Nancy A. Youssef The Wall Street Journal “The most likely effect of the November election is creating more chaos.” —Charles Stewart III August 7, 2022 Ryan Teague Beckwith Bill Allison Bloomberg Prof. Stewart in APNews, "FACT FOCUS: Why final election results take days, not hours" August 5, 2022 Ali Swenson and Josh Kelety AP News “It’s quite clear they’re going to be simulating how they might blockade Taiwan in the future.” —M. Taylor Fravel August 4, 2022 Lily Kuo, Christian Shepherd, and Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post Prof. Fravel speaks with Reuters about Pelosi's visit to Tawian: "China's planned exercises appear as though they may be greater in scope than during a Taiwan Strait crisis in 1995 and 1996." August 2, 2022 Yimou Lee and Sarah Wu Reuters “There are so many closure areas so close to Taiwan. The scope of these areas literally attack Taiwan from four directions — east, south, west and north.” —M. Taylor Fravel August 2, 2022 Stuart Lau POLITICO What’s at stake with a Pelosi visit to Taiwan? Professor Fravel weighs in. August 2, 2022 Ishaan Tharoor The Washington Post Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
““Overthrowing a dictatorship is fundamentally different than building a lasting democracy."” —Professor Mai HassanSpectrumSpring 2023 September 28, 2023
“Increased pressure on China could easily backfire and motivate Beijing to become more aggressive in order to demonstrate its resolve to other states despite its internal difficulties.” —Professor Taylor Fravel Foreign Affairs September 15, 2023 Taylor Fravel Foreign Affairs
“Canada manages to have 'wonderfully boring' banks, says David Singer, who studies crises and heads Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s department of political science. 'The recipe for stability is to have well-capitalized, risk-averse banks,' he says. A well-capitalized bank is something like a homeowner with a lot of equity: It has a financial cushion to absorb losses on the value of its assets. 'But banks won’t naturally gravitate toward such behavior. They need thorough and steady regulation that doesn’t ease up when the economy is humming.'” —Professor David Singer April 15, 2023 Max Abelson Bloomberg.com
“Vote totals are likely to shift throughout the evening as well as in the days that follow election day as votes continue to be counted. That shift isn’t unusual and can be explained by two dynamics...” —Charles Stewart III November 9, 2022 Sam Levine The Guardian
“The logistical issues of manufacturing that many ballots and distributing them in a way that would go unnoticed just boggles the mind.” —Charles Stewart III November 8, 2022 Sudiksha Kochi USA Today
“They are a fail-safe method to ensure that everyone who is registered to vote gets to cast a ballot.” —Charles Stewart III November 7, 2022 AP Fox News
“They [provisional ballots] are a fail-safe method to ensure that everyone who is registered to vote gets to cast a ballot.” —Charles Stewart III November 4, 2022 Philip Marcelo The Public's Radio
“The immovable force in elections over the last 20 years hasn't changed and that is voters really demanding more convenience.” —Professor Charles Stewart III October 28, 2022 Miles Parks NPR
“It was a puzzling statement… what [Blinken] seems to be saying is that the status quo across the strait has been shifting because of China’s actions toward Taiwan in the past few years” —Professor M. Taylor Fravel October 27, 2022 Phelim Kine Politico
“What brings people to the polls is conflict and uncertainty about who’s going to win the election...When you get it into an equilibrium where there is no uncertainty about who’s going to win the election, then you stay at home.” —Professor Charles Stewart III October 26, 2022 Jusneel Mahal Commonwealth Magazine
NPR’s Miles Parks spotlights Prof. Charles Stewart III’s research showing that hand counting ballots is “significantly less accurate, more expensive and more time-consuming than using tabulation equipment.” October 7, 2022 Miles Park NPR
“Despite their reoccurrence, I don’t view these statements as reflecting a change in strategy.” —M. Taylor Fravel September 20, 2022 Jesse Johnson The Japan Times
“Political scientists Barry Posen and Charles Charles Kupchan argued that Kyiv’s best option was to sue for peace and forgo joining NATO...Despite these pressures, Western support for Ukraine remains strong.” September 15, 2022 Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay Foreign Affairs
Prof. Stewart in New Hampshire Public Radio, "State committee hears expert testimony on what drives voter mistrust" September 7, 2022 Paul Cuno-Booth New Hampshire Public Radio
Research by Prof. Devin Caughey is cited in The Economist, "American policy is splitting, state by state, into two blocs" September 3, 2022 The Economist
“It could increase stress on the Taiwanese Air Force to track, monitor and respond to them … this is a way of basically increasing the daily military pressure on Taiwan.” —M. Taylor Fravel September 1, 2022 Phelim Kine Politico
Prof. Stewart predicts less absentee voting in 2022 compared to previous years in the pandemic. August 12, 2022 ABC News
Prof. Charles Stewart says additional poll volunteers are needed to prevent long lines, delayed results, and fewer polling locations. August 12, 2022 Isabelle Hamilton ABC News
Fravel quoted in The Wall Street Journal, "China’s Military Exercises Showcase Modern Fighting Force Preparing for Possible War in the Taiwan Strait" August 7, 2022 Alastair Gale and Nancy A. Youssef The Wall Street Journal
“The most likely effect of the November election is creating more chaos.” —Charles Stewart III August 7, 2022 Ryan Teague Beckwith Bill Allison Bloomberg
Prof. Stewart in APNews, "FACT FOCUS: Why final election results take days, not hours" August 5, 2022 Ali Swenson and Josh Kelety AP News
“It’s quite clear they’re going to be simulating how they might blockade Taiwan in the future.” —M. Taylor Fravel August 4, 2022 Lily Kuo, Christian Shepherd, and Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post
Prof. Fravel speaks with Reuters about Pelosi's visit to Tawian: "China's planned exercises appear as though they may be greater in scope than during a Taiwan Strait crisis in 1995 and 1996." August 2, 2022 Yimou Lee and Sarah Wu Reuters
“There are so many closure areas so close to Taiwan. The scope of these areas literally attack Taiwan from four directions — east, south, west and north.” —M. Taylor Fravel August 2, 2022 Stuart Lau POLITICO
What’s at stake with a Pelosi visit to Taiwan? Professor Fravel weighs in. August 2, 2022 Ishaan Tharoor The Washington Post
