Peer-reviewed Articles:

• Yaoyao Dai and Alexander Kustov. 2024. “The (In)effectiveness of Populist Rhetoric: A Conjoint Experiment of Campaign Messaging..” Political Science Research Methods 12(4), 849 - 856.
• Benjamin J. Radford, Yaoyao Dai, Niklas Stoehr, Aaron Schein, Mya Fernandez, Hanif Sajid. 2023. "Estimating Conflict Losses and Reporting Biases." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(34).
• Yaoyao Dai and Alexander Kustov. 2022. “When Do Politicians Use Populist Rhetoric? Populism as a Campaign Gamble.” Political Communication, 1-22.
• Yaoyao Dai and Luwei Luqiu. 2022. “Wolf Warriors and Diplomacy in the New Era: An Empirical Analysis of China’s Diplomatic Language.” The China Review, 22(2), pp.253-283.
• Yaoyao Dai, Benjamin Radford and Andrew Halterman. 2022. “Political Event Coding as Text to Text Sequence Generation.” Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE). Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. Association for Computational Linguistics, 117-123.
• Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Osman Mutlu, Fırat Duruşan, Onur Uca, Alaeddin Selçuk Gürel, Benjamin Radford, Yaoyao Dai, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Niklas Stoehr, Tadashi Nomoto, Milena Slavcheva, Francielle Vargas, Aaqib Javid, Fatih Beyhan, Erdem Yörük. 2022. “Extended Multilingual Protest News Detection--Shared Task 1, CASE 2021 and 2022..” Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE). Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. Association for Computational Linguistics, 223-228.
• Yaoyao Dai and Luwei Luqiu. 2020. “Camouflaged Propaganda: A Survey Experiment on Political Native Advertising.” Research & Politics, 7(3), 2053168020935250.
• Yaoyao Dai, Zijie Shao, and Xianglin Xu. 2016. “Agenda-Setting and International News Coverage: A Quantitative Text Analysis on China Central TV News Reports” (In Chinese). Journal of Chinese Academy of Governance 4: 29-34.

Editor-reviewed Articles:

• Yaoyao Dai and Luwei Luqiu. 2018. “Foreign Native Advertising.”, CP: Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association 28(2): 25-31.
• Yaoyao Dai and Zijie Shao. 2016. “Populism and Authoritarian Survival in China: Conceptualization and Measurement.” CP: Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association 26(2): 31-40.

Books

• Yaoyao Dai and Luwei Luqiu. 2024. "Wolf Warrior Diplomacy and China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs: From Policy to Podium." Lexington Books.

Book Chapters

• Yaoyao Dai. 2024. "L’importanza del populismo non va esagerata.” In Capire il Populismo, ed. Mattia Zulianello and Petra Guasti. UTET (In Italian, other languages forthcoming).

Outreach Publications:

• Yaoyao Dai. 2023. “Don't Exaggerate the Importance of Populism.” The Loop, The European Consortium For Political Research.
• Benjamin J. Radford, Yaoyao Dai, Niklas Stoehr, Aaron Schein, Mya Fernandez, Hanif Sajid. 2023. "Estimating Troop Losses on Both Sides in the Russia-Ukraine War." The Loop, The European Consortium For Political Research.
• Yaoyao Dai and Luwei Luqiu. 2021. “On North Korea, China's wolf warriors speak more like doves.” NK Pro.
• Yaoyao Dai and Luwei Luqiu. 2021. “China's 'wolf warrior' diplomats like to talk tough.” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage.
• Yaoyao Dai. 2018. “Populism and Abuse of Populism.” Tencent Dajia (Most influential self-media in China. Article had been viewed over 310,000 times before the website was censored.).

Under Review and Working Papers:

• Yaoyao Dai, Jingjing Gao, and Benjamin Radford. "From Fear to Hate: Anti-Asian Sentiment During COVID-19."
• Yaoyao Dai. “Measuring Populism in Contexts: A Supervised Approach with Word Embedding Models.”
• Yaoyao Dai and Benjamin Radford. “0-BlinC: Zero-Shot Bilingual Text Classification without Translation.”
• Yaoyao Dai and Benjamin Radford. “Large Language Models for Measuring Contested and Multi-dimensional Concepts.”
• Yaoyao Dai and Xun Cao. "Do Extreme Weather Events Change Party Climate Policy Preferences?"
• Yaoyao Dai, Robert Pinka, and Benjamin Radford. “Towards Better Human Annotation: Methods to Decrease Random and Systematic Measurement Errors.”

Works in Progress:

• Yaoyao Dai, Matt Golder, Sona Golder, and Benjamin Radford. “Attributing Policy Influence: A Transfer Learning Approach with Transformers.”
• Yaoyao Dai, Alexander Kustov, Candace Miller, and Benjamin Radford. “How Social Scientists Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Immigration: A big-data Analysis of Academic Articles over the Past Century.”