Hsu Yung-ming

Hsu Yung-ming (Chinese: 徐永明; pinyin: Xú Yǒngmíng; born 15 May 1966) is a Taiwanese political scientist, pollster, and politician.

His doctoral dissertation was titled, "The formation of national identity in Taiwan", and was supervised by political scientist Christopher H. Achen of Princeton University.

[4][5][6] He later joined the faculty of Soochow University, where he taught political science,[7] and served as director of the Taiwan Brain Trust think tank.

[9] Citing survey data from the Mainlander Taiwanese Association, Hsu opined in 2005 that differing views of the 228 Incident are no longer an ethnic issue, but instead a cross-party conflict.

[11] Shortly after the 2006 protests led by Shih Ming-teh, Hsu wrote that the proposed formation of a third presidential ticket in the 2008 election would have taken more votes from the Democratic Progressive Party, leading to an easy Kuomintang victory.