Tse-min Lin is Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. His teaching and research interests cover methodology, formal theory, and American and comparative political behavior. 

A Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota, Dr. Lin has taught or visited at State University of New York at Stony Brook, Duke University, Michigan State University, the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, and National Taiwan University. He has published in American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Democratization, Issues & Studies, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Political Research Quarterly, Public Choice, Social Science History, Taiwan Democracy Quarterly, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, World Politics, as well as in edited volumes.