Jongyoon Baik

jongyoonbaik@cuhk.edu.cn

I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania. I received both my Ph.D. in Political Science and M.S. in Statistics from the University of Chicago.

I study comparative politics, with a regional focus on China, South Korea, and North Korea. My research asks how institutions shape the relationship between the state and individuals. My past and current work examine this question through the Chinese courts and media. More recently, I am working on China’s foreign policy, North Korean propaganda, and South Korean public policy. I primarily use quantitative methods and text-as-data approaches.

My research has received support from APSA (NSF) DDRIG, Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, Association for Asian Studies, and Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, among others.

I received an M.A. in Political Science and International Relations and a B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Seoul National University.