Book project

• “Knowing Yourself, Knowing Your Enemy: Factional Clarity and Intra-Elite Violence in Authoritarian Regimes.”

Peer-reviewed articles

• Trinh, Duy, and Milkie Vu. “Panethnic Fate Unlinked: Who Finds the Term ‘Chinese Virus’ Acceptable?” Social Science Quarterly 106, no. 2 (2025). [pdf]
• Ash, Konstantin, and Duy Trinh. “Comment on ‘Cropland Abandonment in the Context of Drought, Economic Restructuring, and Migration in Northeast Syria.” Environmental Research Letters 19, no. 12 (December 2024): 128001. [pdf]
• Trinh, Duy. “The Factional Logic of Political Protection in Authoritarian Regimes.” Comparative Political Studies. [pdf]
• Truong, Nhu and Duy Trinh. “Agrarian Agitations: Transcripts of Resistance and Authoritarian Feedback Under Vietnam’s Repressive-Responsive Regime.” Democratization 31, no. 3 (2024): 596-615. [pdf]
• Vu, Milkie, Duy Trinh, Namratha R. Kandula, Nhat-Ha Tran Pham, Jennifer Makelarski, and Hilary K. Seligman. “Low-Income Asian Americans: High Levels Of Food Insecurity And Low Participation In The CalFresh Nutrition Program: Study examines food insecurity low-income Asian Americans and low participation in the CalFresh nutrition program.” Health Affairs 42, no. 10 (2023): 1420-1430. [pdf]
• Trinh, Duy. “Explaining factional sorting in China and Vietnam.” Problems of Post-Communism 68, no. 3 (2021): 171-189. [pdf]

Book chapters

• Trinh, Duy (2022). “The Where and Why of Political Protection in Vietnam’s Anti-Corruption Campaign.” In The Dragon’s Underbelly: Dynamics and Dilemmas in Vietnam’s Economy and Politics, edited by Nhu Truong and Tuong Vu. Singapore: ISEAS.

Selected working papers

• Commerce and Campaigns: The Local Roots of Globalization Messaging in US Presidential Speeches (with Thomas Flaherty, Changlip Kim, and Olivia Hundley). SSRN.
• “Expectation of Power, Protective Umbrella, Or Both: Investigating the Heterogeneous Effect of Power on Provincial Investment in China” (with Victor Shih). Under review.
• “Globalization and the Great Divergence of Right-Wing Populism.” (with Helen Milner). Under review.
• “Contemporary Perception of Elite Factionalism: Results from Two Conjoint Experiments in China and Vietnam.” Under review

Book reviews

• Trinh, Duy (2023). “Review of Unearthing Politics: Environment and Contestation in Post-socialist Vietnam}, by Jason Morris-Jung.” Pacific Affairs.
• Trinh, Duy (2021). “Review of The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building, edited by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear.” Pacific Affairs, no. 94 (3).
• Trinh, Duy (2018). “Review of Censorship in Vietnam: A Brave New World, by Thomas Bass.” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, no. 95 (2), 523–525.