Ji Yeon (Jean) Hong

Ji Yeon (Jean) Hong is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Politics at the University of Michigan. Her research interest is on the political economy of authoritarian regimes, with particular attention to East Asia, such as China, Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. She has various ongoing research projects related to authoritarian elites’ behavior, the legacies of authoritarianism, and contemporary state-building in East Asia. She obtained her PhD at the Department of Politics at New York University. Her research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, and Political Science Research and Methods, among others.