Lin, Jih-wen (林繼文) is research fellow in the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and professor of political science at National Chengchi University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Los Angles (1996). His research interests cover game theory and comparative institutional design, and has had articles published in Party Politics, Journal of Democracy, Electoral Studies, China Quarterly, Journal of East Asian Studies, Issues & Studies, among others. His recent publication include "The Endogenous Change of Electoral System: The Case of SNTV" in Party Politics and a book chapter "The Rules of Electoral Competition and the Accountability of Semi-Presidential Governments” in Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup, and Yu-Shan Wu eds, Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy (2011).
